Fred Ventura is the stage name of Italian producer and vocalist Federico Di Bonaventura. Frederico started his career writing and recording electro pop songs on a 4 track cassette machine with a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer and an Oberheim DX drum machine. A songwriting style that soon evolved into a more dance friendly vein thanks to the explosion of the Italo Disco Sound and his love for New Order's ?Blue Monday? and Bobby O ? She Has A Way?.
Frederico started his career writing and recording electro pop songs on a 4 track cassette machine with a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer and an Oberheim DX drum machine.
A songwriting style that soon evolved into a more dance friendly vein thanks to the explosion of the Italo Disco Sound and his love for New Order's ?Blue Monday? and Bobby O ? She Has A Way?.
From 1983-1989 he released eleven 12? maxi singles and one album plus many other projects under different alias' like FLEXX and PLEASURE & PAIN.