Gino Soccio is a Canadian disco producer, singer, songwriter, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, born September 9, 1955 in Montreal. He is of Italian descent. Soccio began studying piano at the age of 8. By the age of 18 he had begun renting electronic keyboards and synthesizers for use in his own home studio. A producer asked him to play keyboards and write a tune for a group called . He ended up doing practically the whole LP by himself.