Carlos Perón (born 9 June 1952) is a

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musician. He was a founding member of the band

Yello Yello is a Swiss electronic music band, which formed in Zürich in 1979. For most of the band's history, Yello has been a duo consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank; founding member Carlos Perón left in 1983. Their sound is often charac ...

Career

Born in Zürich, Switzerland, his first solo album was ''Impersonator'' (1981). Perón founded the TRANCEONIC studio in Zürich together with Boris Blank. In this experimental studio the two developed what would later on become the famous Yello sound. In 1978 Perón and Boris Blank made a trip to the U.S. to sell their music to the U.S. music industry. They visited RCA in Los Angeles and

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' label Ralph Records in San Francisco. After they returned to Switzerland Dieter Meier joined as a vocalist to form the trio Yello. The first maxi single of Yello came out (with "I.T. Splash" and "Glue Head") on the local label Periphery Perfume. In 1980 Yello released their first album ''Solid Pleasure''. In 1981 Perón released his first solo album ''Impersonator'' on the label Konkurrenz/Phonogram, and Yello got a long term major deal on Phonogram through the managing director Louis Spillmann. In the same year the Yello album ''Claro Que Si'' came out, and also Yello's first video (to the track "The Evening's Young"). In 1983 Perón released the soundtrack to the film ''Die Schwarze Spinne'' by director Mark M. Rissi on the label Milan Disques. The same year Yello issued their third LP ''You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess''. In early 1983, just after release of ''

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'', Perón left Yello in order to pursue a solo career. In 1985 he released his first oratorio ''Die Schöpfung der Welt; oder 7 Tage Gottes'', again on Milan Disques. On the same label he published the video soundtrack to the war movie ''Commando Leopard'' by producer Erwin C. Dietrich. From 1991 on he worked with label owner Lothar Gärtner of Strange Ways Records; he produced solo works and also bands like Wolfsheim, Sielwolf, The Cain Principle, Stalin, Cyrus, Recall and many others. In this phase he created the so-called fetish soundtracks like ''Terminatrix'' and ''La Salle Blanche''. From 2006 on the music company SPV began to re-release Perón's entire solo works on Revisited Records worldwide. Perón now works worldwide as a music producer.Carlos Perón (Carlos Perón) , MySpace
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Peron, Carlos 1952 births Living people Musicians from Zürich Swiss record producers 20th-century Swiss musicians Swiss people of Spanish descent Synth-pop musicians 21st-century Swiss musicians