Artist:Kano
Song:I'm Ready
Album:Greatest Hits
Not to be confused with the British rapper Kano, this Kano is a trio of Italian producers who are today considered to be influential in dance music. They weren't very successful at the time. They got club play and some success on the dance charts. But the music is heavily sampled by hip hop guys. Matteo Bonsanto, Stefano Pulga and Luciano Ninzatti were all studio musicians in the late 70s. Pulga plays keyboards and sings. He released a couple of albums. Ninzatti plays guitar. After the success of Italian producer Georgio Moroder in producing dance music, they decided they wanted a piece of that action and formed Kano. They released the 1980 album Kano on FullTime Records in Italy and Emergency Records in the US. I'm Ready was the first single and it reached #21 on the R&B Singles chart and #8 on the Dance chart. And that's the market they were going for. The three guys wrote and produced everything. Fulga is the singer with backup singers. The influence of Kano is that I'm Ready has been sampled 29 times according to the website whosampled. The most notable of these was the 1993 smash hit Whoomp! (There It Is) by Tag Team. For the 1981 album New York Cake, Kano signed with Atlantic's Mirage label. When that didn't do well, the 1983 album Another Life was not released in the US. That album featured Glen White, an American singer living in Italy. After that, all three returned to studio work. But the music and royalty cheques live on because of sampling. The disco reissue label Unidisc released this comp in 1990. Kano recently released an album in 2021. It seems to be a Stefano Pulga solo album. The other two guys aren't involved. Here's the video for I'm Ready by Kano.
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