Roberto Danova (born Giacinto Bettoni; 27 August 1937) is best known as a music composer, arranger and producer, achieving record chart success - particularly in Ireland, the UK, Europe, South Africa and Australasia.
During the 1970s 1980s and 1990s Danova produced, arranged, or had compositions covered by many popular performers, including Joe Dolan (with whom he made a key contribution in the mid-1970s),[1][2] Johnny Logan (whose career was overseen in the late 1970s by Danova and Louis Walsh),[3] Mungo Jerry,[4] Tom Jones,[5] Demis Roussos,[6] Engelbert Humperdinck,[7] and Showaddywaddy,[8] Since the mid-1980s Danova has developed an instrumental project General Lafayette, a series of albums and singles featuring some of his own compositions through the sound of the trumpet.
A VHS video was issued in 1999, and a CD/DVD with some modifications was released in 2006 by Plaza Records London.
[13][14][15][16] In 1998 he produced Credo, a musical celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
[17] Also the same year he guested on the Don Maclean BBC Radio 2 show.