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Mauro Scocco (born September 11, 1962 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish pop artist. Scocco grew up in Stockholm and in Borås. He formed the pop group Ratata in 1980 along with a few classmates while he was still in school. The first single was “För varje dag” (“For each day”) released on the debut album Ratata in 1981.

After Ratata he started a successful solo career in the late eighties, with some ten very successful albums released, including compilations, box sets and a live DVD (out 2008). Many of Mauro Scocco’s singles have reached top positions on the Swedish charts; “Sarah”, “Vem är han?”, “Till de ensamma”, “Nelly” and “Överallt” are among the most recognized. He has received six Swedish Grammy Awards.

Besides being a solo artist he also writes and produces music for other pop singers, of which Lisa Nilsson is the most famous. Scocco wrote “Himlen runt hörnet” for her and it became a monster hit in Sweden in the early 1990s and it made her career sky rocket. Scocco started the record label Diesel Music that was later sold to Playground.

In 1991 Scocco released an album with instrumental piano music, Det Sjungande Trädet (“The singing tree”), with inspiration from Erik Satie and expressionistic art.