Maurizio De Jorio

Maurizio De Jorio is an Italian music producer and singer, born in Trento, Italy. He became involved in mainstream musical production in the mid-1980s.
Like most musicians in the Eurobeat genre, De Jorio has performed under a number of pseudonyms for various labels. He is most well known for being one part of the Eurodance group Max Coveri, alongside Edoardo Arlenghi, Mauro Farina, Corrado Baretta, Bratt Sinclaire, and Pamela Prandoni, producing hit tracks such as "Running in the 90s" and "Night of Fire". Both are featured in the anime Initial D – of which both appearances has garnered incredible popularity for De Jorio and the Eurobeat genre in general. Some of the other songs used in Initial D are: "Speedy Speed Boy", "Stop Your Self Control", "Golden Age", "Running in the 90s", "Take Me to the Top", and "No One Sleep In Tokyo ".
De Jorio's musical origins starts with his single "In A New World" in 1987 at Out Records, then in 1991, Gino Caria had taken him to A.Beat-C. and signed him to the record, beginning his Eurobeat career. His first song that he lent his vocals to was "Love & Celebration" by David Essex. in 1992, he had started working with Andrea Leonardi, who was currently freelancing for the label. He split from A.Beat-C. later in the mid-1990s to join Sinclaire and his newly co-founded Eurobeat label, Delta Music Industry, which was also co-founded by Laurent Schruster Gelmetti and Clara Elena Moroni, who had both worked at Time Records. De Jorio had worked with Newfield and Moroni for a good number of songs, which in 2019, were released on the Delta Ultimate Collection and Bratt Sinclaire Eurobeat Style album compilations. Currently, De Jorio performs only under his alias Dejo for Bratt Sinclaire's label, SinclaireStyle.
De Jorio joined Max Coveri in 1996, replacing Massimo Maglione before he adopted the drag queen alias Billy More.

Partial discography

As lead artist

;As 7th Heaven

1990s

;As Derreck Simons

''TNT''

2000s

;As Alan Ford

Year	Title	Album
1994	Magic	Super Eurobeat Vol. 49 - Extended Version

;As Casanova

Lost In The Time
Lost In The Time
Lost In The Time
Lost In The Time
Lost In The Time
Power of Love
Lost In The Time
Don't Leave Me Now
Don't Leave Me Now
Don't Leave Me Now
Don't Leave Me Now
Don't Leave Me Now
Feel The Passion
Feel The Passion
Feel The Passion
Feel The Passion
Feel The Passion
In The Name Of Love / What Is Love )
In The Name Of Love
In The Name Of Love
In The Name Of Love
In The Name Of Love
In The Name Of Love
In The Name Of Love
Under Pressure
Under Presser
Under Presser
Suspicious
Suspicious
Suspicious
Suspicious
I Did It For Love
Help Me To Say Goodbye
Help Me To Say Goodbye
Help Me To Say Goodbye
Help Me To Say Goodbye
Help Me To Say Goodbye
I Would Die for You
Jealous Guy
Just for Tonight
Same Old Feeling
Coming Home
Superfly
Satisfy My Soul
The Hero
Holiday
Crazy Love
Crazy Love

;As Dejo

1.2.3.4. Fire!
Boys Gone Wild
Drifting all night
For The Fans with Tora
In The Eyes Of A Tiger with Bratt
Lightning Over Japan
Loving Eurobeat with Bon
Too Young to Fall in Love
We Rock'em All with Chai
Wheelpower And Go! with Bon
Wilder Faster Louder

;As Delta All-Stars
;* Christmas Time
;* Trust Me
;As David Essex / D. Essex / D-Essex

Goodbye Illusion
Love & Celebration
Sin of Love
All Your Love
Burning Love
Demolition Man
Listen to the Rhythm
Tokyo Tokyo
Victim of Love
Boom Boom Fire
Boom Boom Fire
Breaking The Law
Dancing Crazy
Fahrenheit Euronight
Hyper Star Energy
Master Power
Max Power with Dr. Love
Music for Hire
Music Forever
Restless and Wild
Take Me to the Top
Thank You-Arigato

;As Edo Boys

No One Sleep In Tokyo
My Rock Is For Japan

;As Kevin Johnson

Big Is Your Faith
Welcome to my World
Yankee

;As Marko Polo

Baby Queen Seventeen
Cyberdance Technotrance
Hai Hai Hai
I Want to Believe
Mad Guy
Money Go!
Peace and Love for Christmas
Saturday Night
Speedy Speed Boy
Stop Your Self Control
Tokyo Fever

;As Max Coveri

Golden Age
High Desire
I Don't Wanna Break Your Sweet Heart
Like a Thunder
Running in the 90s
Supercar

;As Morris

Crazy For Your Love
Go Say Goal!
Still Love You All
Go! Save Goal
Bad Tonight
Destination Unknown

;As Niko

1 for the Money, 2 for the Show
Electric Power
It's My Life
Let's Go Wild!
Livin' On A Prayer
Made of Fire
Night of Fire
Night of Fire
Night of Fire
Onto the Beat of my Bang Bang!
Pilot Is the Hero
Speedway
Superbad
Super Eurobeat
Tora Tora Tora 2005
We Came for the Rock
Niko Kickboxing
Super Mega Stars

;As Oda

Face to Face
Sex Crime
Shy Gun
Speed Demon

;As Roswell

Alien Light
Come On!
My Way

As SEB All Stars

SEB 4 U

As SinclaireStyle All Stars

Xmas Love

As Tokyo Future

''Tokyo Future''

Inclusion in other media

Many of his songs are used for fad music on the website, YTMND.
His promotional model, Edoardo Arlenghi, is used in place of his own image for the marketing of songs under his pseudonym "Niko". He can be seen most prominently in the music video for the song "Night of Fire".
Various songs including "Night of Fire", "Speedy Speed Boy" as, "Golden Age", "Running in the 90s", "Crazy For Your Love", "Take Me To The Top", and "Wheelpower & Go!" are featured in the Japanese anime Initial D, which contributed to the popularity of Eurobeat music. Additionally, "Running in the 90s" became an Internet meme due to its inclusion in Initial D, being played in many videos where vehicles are seen driving at high speeds.
* Other of his songs, such as "Stop Your Self Control" and "Burning Love" appeared in other media based on the series.
* Songs such as "Wilder Faster Louder" and "In The Eyes Of A Tiger" are featured in the Japanese anime MF Ghost, the sequel of Initial D.
One of his first aliases was "David Essex", which came from the 70' famous British singer David Essex (David Albert Cook). The reason why it went back to the truncated "D. Essex/D-Essex" is due to David Essex's lawyer threatening to sue for usage of the name clashing with his discography.