Imperio

Imperio is EuroDance group from Austria.

All has begun during a long drive to Italy. Norbert Reichart, producer and mastermind of Imperio, has always been a great fan of old roman movies, such as "Ben Hur", and he has always loved their monumental sound. He was always fascinated by the aura, the outfit and the way of living, which prevailed in ancient Rome.

While Norbert was driving on the highway to the south, he grasped for his cigarettes. Suddenly the print "Veni Vidi Vici" on the packet caught his eye. The idea to make a dancefloor song with these three words was born!

After having arrived at home, he immediately started working. The instrumental version was finished soon, but the vocals were still missing. This problem was solved by change. Some days later Norbert met Manuela Ray in the disco "Dorian Gray" in Frankfurt. Manuela, a girl from Vienna who was visiting a friend in Frankfurt, was dancing happy and lively to her favourite rhythm, and Norbert thought: "SHE is the right one!!!".

Then Norbert asked Manuela if she was also able to sing and instead of giving him an answer she turned round and went away; she thought he had wanted to give the come-on to her in quite a stupid manner! A lot of persuasiveness was necessary to convince her that Norbert was not joking. Then Manuela got interested in the whole story and two days later she was already in Norbert` s studio: she listened to the instrumental version, read her text, started to sing and - wow!- her voice was perfect!

After that Norbert begun the search for a suitable rapper, what turned to be a quite difficult thing.

Two months later Norbert and Manuela found at last what they were desperately looking for. In a very big disco in Budapest there was a concert, and they saw Paulo Martins on stage! He was rapping and dancing wildly and he spread such a charisma all around, that Norbert and Manuela were immediately fascinated by him!

After the performance they went in the cloakroom and asked Paulo, if he would not like to became rapper and dancer by Imperio. The answer was fortunately affirmative!

Now the conquest of the discos and of the international charts could begin!!!

Even though everyone thought that Imperio would remain forever with their original members, Paulo suddenly had to leave the group because of his dedication to his family and to his studies back in Portugal. It was a great time with Paulo, and we will always stay in contact with him.

The name of the new male part of Imperio is Lawrence Madia, he has already made a place in the hearts of fans!
Lawrence is a talented dancer and rapper, and he is also very good-looking!

Albums: Veni Vidi Vici & Return to Paradise