Music Style Dance

Musical Influences Faithless, Sash, Mauro Picotto, Vangelis, Sting, Agents and many more

Artist History The band I O N consist of two musical wizards, a Finnish-born Velho and Swedish-born Marco, who runs Studio 214 in Gothenburg, Sweden. They started the band in 1999 as a studio project. Marco presented his idea for a song, which eventually became "Do what you love". From there on they've been writing and recording songs in an exhilarating tempo. In the summer of 2001 I O N manager Tapani Hirvonen approached one of the singers for Sash!, Inka, in order to collaborate with I O N. Inka and Ralf Koppheimer were more than enthusiastic about the music and are in the process to produce People for a single release. Velho, who resides in London has been busy pursuing his contacts in England and has been able to acquire legal representation for the band by Babbington and Krais, who is one of the biggest music solicitors in the country (their roster includes Texas, Chemical Brothers, etc.). Marco, in turn, has been re-working some of the older songs.

Group Members Marco M: vocals, songwriter, keyboards Velho: vocals, songwriter, keyboards Featured artists: Heidi L: lead vocals Charlotte Andersson: vocals Samppa : guitar

Location gothenburg, GBG - Sweden

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