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Italian composer, producer, and pioneer of electronic music, hailed as the 'Father of Disco'.Born in Italy, Moroder revolutionized disco with synthesizers in the 1970s, produced era-defining hits for Donna Summer, won three Academy Awards for film scores, and experienced a career resurgence in the 2010s.

• Moroder's 1977 production of Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' pioneered sequenced electronic disco, later influencing techno and EDM genres.
• He won Oscars for Midnight Express (1978), Flashdance (1983), and Top Gun (1986), making him one of few musicians with three Academy Awards.
• After semi-retirement in the 1990s, his collaboration on Daft Punk's 2013 album 'Random Access Memories' sparked global rediscovery of his legacy.
• In a controversial move, he destroyed all master tapes of his early German recordings to reinvent himself before his disco breakthrough.