Many Eurodisco compositions feature lyrics sung in English, although the singers often share a different mother tongue.
The genre declined in popularity after 1986 in preference to electronic rock and hi-NRG, with a small revival of Italo disco in the late 1990s.
Eurodisco is largely an offshoot of contemporary American music trends going far back to the early times of disco, pop and rock.
During the 1960s, Europop hits spread around France, Italy and Germany, because of the French Scopitone (jukebox) and the Italian Cinebox/Coilorama Video-jukebox machines.
The American music journalist Robert Christgau used the term "Eurodisco" in his late 1970s articles for The Village Voice newspaper.
Sound, West Germany groups Arabesque,[3] Boney M.,[4] Dschinghis Khan and Silver Convention, the Munich-based production trio Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer and Pete Bellotte,[5] the Italian singer Gino Soccio,[6] French artists Amanda Lear, Dalida, Cerrone, Hot Blood, Banzai (single "Viva America") and Ottawan, Dutch groups Luv' and Eurovision song contest winners Teach-In.
In Poland, disco polo, a local music genre relying heavily on Eurodisco was developed at the verge of the '80s and '90s.
In the United States, especially for the Eurohouse style, they used the earlier term of "Eurodance" to describe this 1990s evolution of Eurodisco.
Technically speaking, the last form of Eurodisco is French house, a music style that appeared in France during the mid-1990s and slowly became widespread in Europe.
The influence of Eurodisco had infiltrated dance and pop in the U.S. by 1983, as European producers and songwriters inspired a new generation of American performers.
In Germany, notable practitioners of the sound included Modern Talking, Arabesque, Sandra, Alphaville, C.C.
[7] In Mainland China, the Eurodisco was popularized through the spread of the Eurodisco mix album Hollywood East Star Trax (shortened as Hedong in Chinese) and Master Mix (Mengshi in Chinese), compiled by DJ Alex - who at the time was a DJ in the dance club “Hollywood East” in Hong Kong.