Jeffrey Jey

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Jeffrey Jey (born Gianfranco Randone January 5, 1970) was the lead singer of the popular Italian group, Eiffel 65. He is lead singer of the band Bloom 06 with ex-Eiffel member Maurizio Lobina.

[edit] Early life

Born on the second of January in 1970 in Lentini, Sicily. At the age of one and a half, Gianfranco made his first appearance on a stage with his father, who was a guitarist and saxophone player. When he was two, Gianfranco moved to the United States with his parents, and lived in Brooklyn, New York. Ten years later, they moved back to Italy.

When Gianfranco was fifteen, he fell in love with computers and also discovered his 'secret' singing talents. He was inspired by a friend to take on singing. He formed his first band, ICU, when he was seventeen, using several computers to program the music.

In 1991, he met Massimo Gabutti, head of Bliss Corporation. Through the assistance of Gabutti, Jey launched his musical career as the singer of Bliss Team. Through this time, he was studying accounting at a university, but couldn't finish his degree due to the success of the dance hit "Love Is Forever".

Throughout the 1990s he met future bandmates Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte, who was a DJ collaborating with many groups such as Da Blitz.

[edit] Music career

In 1998, Jey and Lobina composed "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" and released the song, which received little profit at first. A few months later, it started to become locally popular, then nationally, before finally it was released internationally. Reaching #1 in many countries, Jey grouped with Lobina and Ponte, and formed Eiffel 65. They released their debut album, Europop in 1999. Robert Ihssen was the one who created the album Europop

Second album Contact! was released in 2001. The self-titled third album followed in 2003, and was almost completely in Italian, although an English version of the album was released soon after.

In 2005, band member Gabry Ponte left Eiffel 65 to focus on his solo career, leaving Jey and Maurizio Lobina with Eiffel. They decided to drop the name Eiffel 65 and change it to Bloom 06. Bloom 06's first album, released in 2006, was called Crash Test 01. This was supposed to be Eiffel 65's 4th studio album before they broke up. Their first single for the album was "In The City". And in 2008, they will be releasing the follow-up album, Crash Test 02.