Nadia Ali was working in the New York offices of Versace when a co-worker introduced her to Markus Moser, who was looking for a female singer to collaborate on some of his tracks. The two teamed up and started a group originally named 'vaiio', named after the Sony laptop Nadia was working on. They later dropped the 'va' to avoid causing problems.
While Markus composed the music, Nadia, with her very distinct voice wrote the lyrics and provided the vocals. Markus had the astonishing ability to get the best remixers to rework their songs. A perfect example is Johnny Vicious getting a very capable hand on 'At the End' - hold on all the 9 mins of it and it willdrive you so insane you will want to scream in delight.
iiO's first album 'Poetica' was delayed several times and finally released independently in 2005. By that time Nadia had left iiO to purse a solo career, while Markus continues to released material featuring her on the vocals.
Unfortunately only a few orignal videos are to ind on the worldwideweb.
iiO - Rapture (2001)
US#2, UK#2, ROM#2, AUS#3, IRL #9
iiO - At the End (2002)
UK#20, US#41
iiO - At the End (Johnny Vicious Remix)
iiO - Smooth (2003)
US#23
iiO - Runaway (2004)
iiO - I Kiss You (2005)
US#3
iiO - Is it Love? (2006)
US#1
iiO - Chastity (2007)
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