Giorgio Moroder

After contributing to the soundtrack of the 1986 hit Top Gun -- the love theme from which, "Take My Breath Away," earned him another Oscar for Best Original Song -- and after writing the theme song to 1987's Over the Top, he turned away from dance music to focus on rock, producing Flaunt It, the debut from the heavily hyped British flash-in-the-pan Sigue Sigue Sputnik. He pursued non-musical projects such as the Cizeta Moroder V16T, a "supercar" he collaborated on with automotive engineer Claudio Zampolli and designer Marcello Gandini in 1988. In the '90s he turned to remixing, reworking Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and material from Heaven 17 and others. In 1998, his remix of "Carry On" -- a Donna Summer collaboration originally released in 1992 -- won him and Summer a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. He also continued to compose film music, writing the score for 2002's Impressionen Unter Wasser, a marine documentary that was director Leni Riefenstahl's last project. Two years later, Moroder was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame, and in 2005, then-President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi gave him the title of Commendatore. In 2010, he received the Great Order of Merit of the South Tyrol.

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