David Cicero (singer)

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David John Cicero (born on 29 May 1970) is a singer and keyboardist who was signed in 1989 to Spaghetti Records, a record label owned by Pet Shop Boys. Releasing material as Cicero, he went on to have minor success in the early 1990s.

Cicero was born in Deanport, Long Island, USA, but when his parents divorced, he moved to Livingston, Scotland. He attended a Pet Shop Boys' concert in Glasgow in 1989 and gave a demo tape to Peter Andreas, the Pet Shop Boys' personal assistant. Peter Andreas contacted Cicero with an offer of artist management and later when Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe heard Cicero's material, they signed him up to their recently formed Spaghetti label, licensed through Polydor.

Cicero released his debut single "Heaven Must Have Sent You Back to Me" on 12 August 1991. This failed to chart, but it's follow-up, "Love is Everywhere", reached number 19 in the UK singles chart in January 1992. The third single release was "That Loving Feeling" which reached number 46 in April 1992. The latter two single were co-produced by Pet Shop Boys. His debut album, Future Boy, was released in June 1992. The album was produced by David Jacob with the exceptions of "Love is Everywhere" and "That Loving Feeling" which were produced by Pet Shop Boys, and "Cloud 9" and "Sonic Malfunction", which Cicero produced himself. Pet Shop Boys also remixed "Heaven Must Have Sent You Back To Me" for the album and also received a general keyboard and backing vocal credit for the whole album. The new version of "Heaven Must Have Sent You Back to Me" was released as the fourth single and charted at number 70. The video for the single was directed by Chris Lowe because they needed someone who was cheap.

On 2 November 1992, Cicero released a fifth single "Live for Today" as a duet with Sylvia Mason-James. The single was taken from the Pet Shop Boys produced soundtrack to the film The Crying Game but unfortunately failed to chart. The following year, after the success of the title track, sung by Boy George, it was planned to re-release the single, but this never happened.

Cicero released nothing further through Spaghetti Records, although he was still signed with them until 1996. The Pet Shop Boys fan club magazine regularly gave updates about him, saying that he was working on new tracks and he even came close to a duet release that year with a singer called Bianca, who had been spotted on the television show Stars in Their Eyes.

By late 1996, Cicero moved to Academy Street Records in Scotland and his brother took over as manager. He even supported Take That on tour. In spite of this, he has not had chart success since.

[edit] External links

• Cicero Fansite (includes complete biography, discography and unreleased section)
• Pet Shop Boys Official site