Miko Mission, aka Don Miko or Miko, is actually Pier Michele Bozzetti born in Alessandria on June 22nd 1945. He started singing from a very young age and at the age of seven he performed as a singer in the comedy "Gelindo" in a theater of his home town. At fourteen he formed his first musical group, "I Passi per la Musica", which later changed the name to "Oscars" (with Lallo Schiavoni on drums, Piero Nano on bass, Danilo Macchioni on keyboards, then replaced by Vincenzo Pandolfi, Gianni Bongiovanni on guitars and Osvaldo Pizzoli on sax and flute). With the group he participated in some singing competitions, including "Ribalta per Sanremo" at the Lido of Venice. Miko won the competition, thus obtaining a contract with Ariston Records and in 1964, changing the stage name to "Don Miko", he debuted with the 45th round "Gente ... che ragazza!", With the B-Side " You have nothing left for me ". It was a positive debut that his song was the most popular in the jukebox that year. The following year, Pier Michele participated in conjunction with the Italian-American singer Timi Yuro at the Sanremo Festival 1965; the song was titled "E poi verrà l’autunno", but unfortunately it was not admitted to the final evening. That edition of the Festival conducted by Mike Bongiorno and Grazia Maria Spina, was won by Bobby Solo and New Christy Minstrels with the song "Se piangi se ridi" by Mogol, Marchetti and Satti. The elimination, however, did not preclude the artistic path of Don Miko who in that year began to appear in various television programs, some of great popular appeal, such as "La fiera dei sogni" and "Settevoci", the latter conducted by Pippo Baudo and authentic forge of new talents. Just at "Settevoci", Don Miko was the winner of several episodes, consolidating his success. In 1966 he sang an Italian cover of the great success of the Beatles "Michelle". Pier Michele changed the record company and moved from Ariston Records to "Vedette" by the legendary Armando Sascia. With the new record company the singer started numerous artistic collaborations that allowed the recording of various successful pieces including "Le tue favole", a song written in collaboration with Luciano Beretta, well known in the musical environments of the time for being among the authors of "Il ragazzo della via Gluck", a song destined to characterize the entire career of Adriano Celentano with whom Beretta collaborated for a long time. Interesting and fruitful for Don Miko was also the collaboration with Valerio Negrini, lyricist of the Pooh, with whom he wrote the song "Cade il mondo" presented in the program "Settevoci" obtaining wide consents. He had a second appearance at the Sanremo Italian Song Festival in 1976, with the song "Signora tu" and this time things went differently. The song was ranked in sixteenth place and entered the hit parade. For Don Miko, the participation in that Festival coincided with a new artistic collaboration of great prestige: the one with Luigi Alberelli, well-known composer of successful songs such as, among others, "Zingara", first place at the 1969 Sanremo Festival in virtue of of the interpretation of Bobby Solo and Iva Zanicchi. At that time Albertelli and Riccardi had created a record label called Real Music and Don Miko joined this stable, recording a remarkably successful piece entitled "Angelina" and written in collaboration with Albertelli. Bozzetti reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s with the stage name "Miko Mission" and with the hits of Italo-Disco "How Old Are You?" and "The World Is You".
