Roberto Zanetti was born in Massa on November 28th 1956.
At fourteen he started to study the piano and quickly fell in love with music, realising that it was to be the focal point of his future career.
Roberto played with various music groups during his school days before going on to university.
His work with these groups became so important that Roberto decided to undertake a musical career, and put together a professional group, "Taxi", in which he was joined by Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari on guitar.
It was about this time that Roberto started composing songs, at first in a melodic and commercial style and then in a dance style.
In 1983 he completed the first single for his group "Taxi", entitled "To Miami".
The record became a local success (it was released only in central Italy) and it paved the way for another piece, "Angelica" by Joey Moon.
After these first projects, Roberto was contacted by two DJs and, together they produced "Incantation" by Gang.
This record, a cover of a Mike Oldfield song, went down well in Italy and was the beginning of a collaboration with Discomagic, which distributed it and was to become Roberto’s partner in the future.
In October/November 1983, Roberto produced four other records, "Buenas noches" by Kamillo, "Starman" by Claudio Mingardi, "Magic Carillon" by Rose and finally, his turning point, the song "Don’t cry tonight" by Savage. This was Roberto’s first real great success.
It was then that he decided to use the name "Robyx" in his professional capacity as a producer. The name originated from school when Roberto used to draw strip cartoons together with a friend, Fabrizio Bonini. One of the characters, a rich and famous rock star, was called "Robyx".
In the years that followed (1984-1986), Roberto dedicated himself to the Savage project, successfully recording the album "Tonight" and various singles ("Only you", "Celebrate", "Radio", "A love again", "Love is death", "Loosing you" and "Goodbye").
In this period, the only production (apart from Savage’s records) was "live is life" by Stargo. This was a dance cover of a famous song by Opus and, in Roberto’s version, reached the top of the French charts, winning a gold disc for two hundred and fifty thousand copies sold.
As he was also the performer in the Savage project, singing all the songs, Roberto concentrated his work on shows and tours throughout Europe, becoming a star in a number of Eastern European countries including Poland and Russia.
At the end of 1986, Roberto decided to create his own recording studio ("Casablanca Recordings"), which also contained the headquarters of his production company "Robyx".
Previously all his records had been recorded in an Italian studio, "Scaccomatto", in Lavagna (Genoa).
Roberto started his career as a self-taught producer. As a keyboard player, he quickly learnt how to use computers and digital equipment that within a short time were to be the foundation of dance music.
Some of the most important stages of his technological progress were when he was one of the first to use "Linn" drums, in 1984, the Yamaha DX7 (1984) and Roland MC 700/500 computers (1985).
The “house demenziale” project was one of the first projects to be undertaken in the new recording studio and was to become a remarkable phenomenon.
This was a period of transition in the world of music. The first "house" tracks had started to cause a big sensation in the UK and in America, but had not yet reached Italy.
Roberto spotted the song "The party" by the group "Craze" and decided to record a cover in Italian using witty lyrics.
This brought about the song "Non toccarmi il culo dai", which was immediately copied by Salvi with "C’e’ da spostare una macchina".
In just a few months Roberto released about ten records of that genre with great success, selling two hundred thousand singles, a huge number for the Italian market!
In 1988 Robyx started a new project that was to become a great international success, ICE MC.
The origin of this project is curious, to put it mildly, Roberto composed a song for himself and then sang it. Subsequently, he decided to eliminate the lyrics of the verse and replace them with rap.
To do this, he enlisted as a rapper Ian Campbell, a British boy of Jamaican origin who was currently working as a disco dancer in Italy. Thus the first song "Easy" was recorded, becoming a huge hit all over Europe.
Even though he sang all the vocal parts, apart from rap, Roberto decided that he did not want to actively appear in the group, so it was called "Ice MC".
The follow up singles, "Scream" and "Cinema", and the album in which they were included were also big hits.
Ice MC was in great demand all over the world and tours began, so while Ian travelled, doing shows and promoting his image, Roberto took care of the organisation and composed the songs. Although Robyx was not performing he put a considerable amount of work into the Ice MC project and really felt it his own.
Around 1990, apart from those of Ice MC Robyx produced few records. The most significant were: "Pianonegro" by Pianonegro, "Party children" by Wareband feat. Tad Robinson and "Vocalize" by Scattt.
In 1990 by chance Robyx met the group "Double You", which was to be the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. Sure enough, shortly after their first single, "Please don’t go" was released.
On this occasion, Roberto’s intuition was again proved right when he launched a style, "covermania", which was to be followed later by many others in Europe.
Following its release, "Please don’t go" became an instant hit managing to climb the charts without the help of any particular promotion.
In the UK the piece was noted by a dance label, Network, who applied for the license to release it there. As the song had already been licenced to another company in the UK Robyx denied their request. Nevertheless Network unashamedly went on to copy "Please don’t go". The copy was sung by the English group "KWS", and reached the top of the UK charts, which was also thanks to the distributor’s improper behaviour (he was the distributor for both the Double You and the KWS versions, supporting only the latter).
Subsequently, DWA won a legal case against Network, who were ordered to pay damages. Unfortunately these proved impossible to assess, considering the success of KWS in both the UK and the USA.
However, Double You triumphed in the rest of the world and Robyx went onto produce other big successes, whereas the group KWS and the dance label Network disappeared from the market.
In addition KC, the composer of "Please don’t go", became very interested in Robyx and in fact visited Italy to record an album, produced by Robyx.
From 1992-93 Roberto moved to new headquarters and, with his new studio, launched an unending series of successes, such as those by Ice MC and Corona.
It was in the new studio that the unique "DWA" sound was created, setting the example to be followed in the recording world in the following years.
The first hit was "The rhythm of the night" by Corona.
In this piece Robyx confined himself to giving some suggestions to the producer Francesco Bontempi, and it was only from the second single ("Baby baby") onwards that Roberto became a very important part of the project, making mixes and cooperating actively in the creation of the songs.
With other new records by Ice MC, "Think about the way" and "It’s a rainy day", Roberto worked on finding new sounds. The famous sounds of the kick drum and the movement of bass, that were to characterise eurodance, were used for the first time in these songs.
Within a few years, Robyx saw himself catapulted among the most important producers selling, between Ice MC and Corona, more than six million singles and two million albums worldwide.
At the end of 1995, Robyx decided to restructure his activity, starting the construction of new more functional offices and reorganising his artistic staff.
It was in this period that conflict arose with Ian Campbell (the rapper of the Ice MC project), who signed an agreement with a different manager, ignoring the contract with Robyx and saying that he wished to change his style.
Further disagreement also arose because Ian wished to use the name "Ice MC" which is a registered trademark of Robyx and given that for a considerable time Roberto had been the singer as well as the composer and played the instruments on all the records, was really his own project.
Ian signed an agreement with German Polydor and so Roberto was forced to break off all relations with both the artist (who continued to use the name Ice MC without rights) and with Polydor.
Polydor did release a new Ice MC record but without Robyx’s production it failed and thus brought this important project to its end.
In 1996 Robyx produced two singles by Alexia, the vocalist on Ice MC’s greatest hits.
Again, under the Robyx trademark success was assured and the singer embarked upon a successful solo career.
The new studios were now ready and Robyx moved there to start on his next projects. In 1997 Robyx produced Alexia’s most successful single "Uh la la la". It was the summer’s biggest hit and climbed to the top of the charts in many parts of Europe including the UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Benelux and Scandinavia.
Also in 1997, Robyx produced the artist’s first album, an album that sold more than five hundred thousand copies worldwide, notching up various gold discs.
At this point Robyx decided to work exclusively on the Alexia project and started writing songs for a new album.
The new album "The party" was released in the summer of 1998. Two tracks from the album were released as singles, "Gimme love" and "The music I like", both becoming massive hits in summer 1998.
Working on just one project meant that for the first time in his career Robyx finally had time to dedicate himself not only to producing records, but also to editing videos, following the artist’s progress and looking after her image.
Within a short time, Alexia became the most important dance artist, not only in Italy but also in many other European countries, as well as outside Europe. Obviously, Robyx’s ambitions didn’t stop there. Putting aside the numerous requests for collaboration with important artists and international record companies, Robyx decided to broaden his career moving with Alexia towards even greater worldwide successes.
In September 1998 Robyx started to write songs for another new album, released in the summer of 1999.
In the meantime, a new single was released in spring. At the same time Alexia also started promoting in the USA, where her first album was released. It contains all of her greatest hits.
At midem 1999, Robyx received many requests from multi-national record companies, producers and various artists, but at that time he preferred to concentrate full time on his Alexia project. At the end of 1999 Robyx released the single "Happy" by Alexia. Besides being one of her most famous songs, it was also used for well-known TV commercials (Kinder Ferrero and Tim).
Robyx’s songs aroused interest in various advertising agencies that made numerous requests for the rights to use his songs in their commercials. One of the most famous commercials of 2000 was the ’Sailor boat’ by Tim, using the song "Goodbye" by Alexia.
In 2000 Robyx released his last song for Alexia, "Ti amo ti amo". It was during this period that there was conflict with Alexia, so Robyx was forced to break off all relations with her.
In 2001 Robyx wrote and produced a single for the band called ’Gazosa’, managed by Caterina Caselli Sugar.
The song "www.mipiacitu" became one of the most popular songs of the summer, thanks also to the ’Omnitel’ commercial.
In 2001 Robyx and his old friend Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari met up and decided to write some songs together that became the first and the second singles of the new album by Zucchero ("Baila" and "Ahum").
Zucchero’s album sold more than two million copies worldwide, followed by a greatest hits album (including “Baila”) that also sold over two million copies.
In the middle of 2004 Robyx produced a new single for Ice MC “It’s a miracle”. The CD was co-released by TIME records and was licenced to various territories.
A new project, a single by “Creavibe” entitled “Wonderful Life”, will be released in May 2005. The song was written by Robyx, published by Extravaganza Publishing and will be released worldwide by Sony BMG.
Если бы весь альбом был таким 
Всё вполне по смыслу. А "юмора" у Занетти не пытайся искать, это - не по его части. У Savage главная тема, что он рыдает ночью, потому шта любовь померла, и раньше он таял в чиьх-то руках, и всё это было ночью, и всё так хреново, и прощай навеки.
Вот Алексия и была в Ice Mc "девочка-припев". А 1-й альбом - он же в женском вокале не нуждался. А какая баба у Занетти вечно вскрикивала в левом канале и стонала в правом (а также наоборот) - это не так уж важно. 
Может кто имеет его в нормальном качестве? 
