Rico Bernasconi

Officially started for Rico Bernasconi at the age of 15 as a resident DJ back in 1986. Rico was always focused & determined to reach his goals so by the end of the 1990’s; he was hired as a DJ promoter with a legendary record company House Nation. 2002/03 he released his first big European hit under the pseudonym of Master Blaster, together with Mike de Ville and Sascha van Holt. They had hits such as Hypnotic Tango, How Old R U, as well as the debut album We Love Italo Disco (as a Sony release) shot to the top-10 of the German Sale Charts. 2005 he decided to emphasize his image and founded a new trio under Vinylshakerz with two new partners, Tommy Detert, and Mike Grießheimer. This was followed by 2 big hits; One Night in Bangkok, as well as Club Tropicana on Kontor. 2008 Rico introduced his own label under StarsHit Rec and Hooky Rec in cooperation with Kontor. There, in addition to his productions, artists were discovered and incorporated with the DJs from Mars who have been part around David Guetta. 2011 he laid the first foundation stone with collab’s with the King of Dancehall, Beenie Man and the followed star icon AKON. 2014 he met Sean Paul and they got along very well right from the start. This resulted in 2015 the creation of a summer hit entitled Ebony Eyes which was released on Kontor. 9-weeks topping the charts as well as top overall positions, following more than 25 million Spotify streams and #1 peak positions on major airplay stations occurred as a result.