Albert Hammond

official Albert Hammond website (http://www.alberthammond.net). Other: M Moser - beat mixer.
. IIO Members Main: Nadia Ali - vocals / song writers. He is best known for his hits of the 1970s like "It Never Rains in Southern California", "The Free Electric Band", and the environment conscious,"Down by the River". Those who pre-ordered Poetica should be recieveing their copies of the CD much earlier (around Tuesday, February 29, 2005). Hammond was born in London and later moved to the United States to begin his professional career as a musician. Poetica is scheduled for a commercial release around May 2005.

Albert Hammond (born May 18, 1944) is a singer-songwriter originally from Gibraltar. After "Rapture" was released, the duo followed suite with several more successful singles, "At The End" (including the popular "Scumfrog" Remix), "Smooth" (including the popular "Airbase" Remix), and their latest single, "Runaway". IIO's full album, Poetica, has been delayed several times but is expected to be released in 2004. A large number of bootleg and whitelabel remixes ensued, including a highly-sought Paul Van Dyk bootleg remix . IIO followed up "Rapture" with several successful remixes of the track by producers by John Creamer, Stephane K, and Deep Dish. The name "IIO" is dervied from the Sony PC model named "Vaio", on which the duo was creating much of their early work.

Iio best known for their 2001 hit "Rapture (Tastes So Sweet)", the lyrics to which were allegedly inspired by a meeting that occurred between vocalist/songwriter Nadia Ali and an unidentified NYC club patron prior to the now infamous lyrics being written. IIO (pronounced "eye-oh") is a New York City based Electronic Dance Music act consisting of producer/songwriter Markus Moser and singer/songwriter Nadia Ali.