[3] At the end of the 1960s Ennio Melis, manager of the Soundtracks section of the Italian RCA, knew about theavailability of the underground spaces of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Mary and the possibility of creating and founding recording studios.
With them, also Italian big names as Renato Zero, Raffaella Carrà, Claudio Baglioni, Fred Bongusto, Nicola Piovani, Domenico Modugno, Adriano Celentano, Renzo Arbore, Riz Ortolani, Massimo Ranieri, Zucchero, Francesco De Gregori, Jovanotti, Alex Britti, Franco Battiato, Andrea Bocelli and many many more.
That's when Forum Music Village was born, in 1996, with Marco Patrignani (the son of Franco and Emma), executive producer and cultural entrepreneur, getting the lead of the company and the responsibility to preserve the legacy of the historic recording rooms in piazza Euclide: expanding the activities through the production of international live events and Cine-concerts.
But life at the studios didn't stop: following a huge technology update, to coordinate the activity of the recording rooms comes Fabio Patrignani, Marco’s brother and one of the best sound engineers still today, boasting such remarkable Italian and international collaborations, from film music to pop, rock, and jazz – among others Ennio Morricone, Nicola Piovani, Julian Lennon, Dolores O’Riordan, Danger Mouse, Vangelis and 2Cellos.
From the foundation of Forum Music Village, uncountable artists and composers worked in the historic recording rooms, bringing music and production on a larger level, shaping the studios in a real cradle of big success: from Academy Awards Winners as Life Is Beautiful (Nicola Piovani) and The Hateful Eight (Ennio Morricone), to the Platinum Records of Morrissey, Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Il Volo, Renato Zero, Claudio Baglioni and Giorgia, hosting producers like Bob Ezrin, Rob Ellis and Robert Kraft, and world-renowned directors as Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Barry Levinson, Sergio Leone, Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Tornatore, Mario Monicelli, Franco Zeffirelli, Dario Argento, Steno, the Taviani brothers, Pupi Avati, Dino Risi and many more.