D40Group

Aldo Bettini. Italian born, French culture. Plays since the age of 15, soon later started a band in Monte-Carlo. Aldo composes poems since that same age, and started writing his first song back in 1970. Student and professional life in Paris kept him away from his first love, poetry and composition, until 1989. He then started his first individual production which was achieved in Chile and published in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992. The LP was named Niña Inocente, under Dino Music label, associated with Sony Music. Mainly pop balads, the production includes 10 songs, 6 of which are of Aldo´s composition.

Since 2003 Aldo and Lucho are co-founders of d40Group, which has launched in 2006 its first production in 4 languages (Spanish, English, French and Italian) under the name "Frutti d' Amore, Fruits of Love". 13 songs integrate the CD, where Lucho and Aldo worked together with a lot of talented artists to create a unique taste in fusioning latin-american beat with world music where you can sense such influences as Lucio Battisti, the Beatles and America.

Out of his artisitc life, Aldo is an independant entrepreneur, managing a business of luxury brands' representations and marketing consultancy within the Latin American territory. He also is the General Secretary of the Association "Union France Panama"

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Aldo Bettini, UFP 

Lucho Gonzalez.  Although born in Bogota, Lucho is a child of Cartagena Colombia, where he created one among the first rock bands at the age of 13. Lucho is a very talented musician, capable of playing many different instruments, from keyboards to guitar, drums, accordeon and bass. He was brought up by his mother, the piano concertist "Chiqui Díaz". In 1992 he knows Aldo Bettini and since then they start together to shape Aldo's songs, coming to the point of composing together such original tunes as "Aime-Moi". Lucho is the captain of the musical boat named GONZARTE COMMUNICATIONS which composed and produced over 500 jingles throughout Latinamerica. He was in charge of the promotion, production and arrangements of the song which won the International OTI Festival of Panama in 1991. Since 2003, accompanied by Aldo and many other talented musicians, he is working to the grand d40 project in 4 languages.

See the links Gonzarte, Amores.

"Frutti d'Amore" integrates a few songs which have been used for a movie soundtrack. The movie "The Hypnotist's Passion" was sucessfully launched in January 2007 in Panama, Republic of Panama, where the band is based.

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Meet Alvarito and Herb

Thanks to the extraordinary talent of Alvarito Ramirez (next to Aldo), our drum player, and Herbert Ureña "El Profe" (next to Lucho), our percussion player, d40 is such a formidable latin pop world fusion, with a soft touch of rock.