Hernandez & Tyo
Diego Donati & Franco Amato

Nationality : Italy Genre : House

In 1994 Diego Donati decided to kick off his career in dance music & quickly managed to secure a residency at one of Europe’s most prestigious clubs, DUPLE. Quickly impressing DJ’s clubbers & promoters, Diego racked up his experience playing in over 500 clubs worldwide securing global support along the way.

With his worldwide reputation sprerading like wildfire, Diego was involved with numerous high profile radio shows & stations including dangerous Network, Radio 105, Club Wave, m2o, XM Radio & Pumpkin74.

Diego’s move into production was inevitable & with a number of big tracks, bigger things were still to come when his path first crossed with Franco Amato’s in 2001…

Meanwhile… In 1992, the sounds of “Please Don’t Go” by Double You could be heard pumping from every stereo across the globe & went on to sell over 3 million copies picking up Gold & Platinum Record status.

Who was responsible? You guessed it, Franco Amato (along with Andrea de Antoni & became the Hernandez Bros). Over the next five years, the duo laid out 5 albums selling over 10 million copies worldwide! With countless DJ gigs it was obvious stardom was on the horizon.

Well, 2001 landed and Diego & Franco finally put pen to paper & the Hernandez & Tyo project was finally born! Producing under their own names & their H&T alias, the pair released tracks including “Let’s Get Down”, “About Us”, “Funky Deejay” along with remixes & projects on labels including Stictly Rhythm, Sound 4 Group, Lickin Records, ZYX, Robbins Ents, Blanco ‘y’ Negro, V2, BMG & many more.

The duo have gone on to pick up support from the likes of Fatboy Slim, Erick Morillo, Michael Gray, Richard F, Axwell, Funkagenda, Toni Humpfries and StoneBridge and have dominated dance charts with their unique funky & vocal house sounds.

2010 is a new year and with it comes plenty of surprises, many of which are being supplied Franco Amato & Diego Donati. These guys are hot right now & with an ever increasing schedule & catalogue, they’re ready for action!