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Domenico Mimmo Capuano 
Domenico CapuanoBackground information Birth name Domenico Capuano Born April 21, 1975
Turin, ItalyGenres Film score, Video game score, Pop Music, Electro Occupations Film composer, Video game composer, Music producer Instruments Piano, Keyboard, MIDI Master Keyboard, Synthesizer, Double Bass Years active 1993–present Labels Dom Capuano Music Website [1] Born as Domenico Capuano, with some nickname as "Mimmo" after "Inception" glamour for someone is called "Dom" Capuano (b. 21 April 1975, Turin, Italy), is an Italian musician, composer and producer.
He composed and produced several international hits, including: Let Me Be 1993, Stay With Me 1995, Move Your Body 2000, The Man in the Moon 2003, Just Be Good to Me 2006, Wale 2008 also has collaborated with several international artist including: Jean Michel Jarre, Eiffel 65, Kool & The Gang, Laura Pausini, 883, Aqua. Zucchero, Nek, Andreas Johnson, Alphaville, Toni Braxton, S Club 7 and more...
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Early life and career
He studied music, in particular the doublebass at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music in Turin Italy. He is also a piano player, composer and orchestral conductor. His musical career is divided into two parallel paths, in that the recordings and in the academic circuit.
Since the early 90's has established itself as a composer and record producer, music producer and is considered a "success, and in step with the times" due to its continuous research and experimental sound manic.[1]
Over the years he has composed and produced some hits record.
In 1993 composed "Let me be" giving away so the career of the Da Blitz. (Maximum number 11 position [1]). In 1994 and again for "Take My Way" [2]
As a composer and arranger enters with the Da Blitz repeatedly in the Italian charts with "Let Me Be" and "Stay with Me" which eventually reached the position number 1 (source: hitparadeitalia [3]). The Da Blitz will be in the standings again with the songs "Movin 'On" (Max Pos # 4 [4]) "Take Me Back" (Max Pos # 4 [5]), and "I Believe" (Max Pos.#8 [3])
3 times platinum with over 3 million copies sold in the U.S. (certified RIAA), 2 Platinum and 3 gold in Europe with over 1,500,000 copies (source: Bliss Corporation) for composing Move Your Body of Eiffel 65, in addition to other awards, reaching over 10 millions of copies worldwide. He also received gold discs wi the Blitthz, Gabry Ponte, Karmah (2 in Germany, 2 in UK, 6 in Italy including for the single "Let Me Be" from the Blitz, 1 France, 1 Spain) [2]
The album of Europop Eiffel 65 gets Pos # 4 of the U.S. charts by selling a total of 3,800,000 copies (source: BlissCo. [7]) also getting good reviews in the American press (Ref: Pop Matters [4], Entertainement Weekly [5] All Music [6])
also with Eiffel 65 project getting good reviews in the American press, the Eiffel 65 received the Grammy Awards Nomination in the 2001(source: Universal [7] ), also Move Your Body was played in the Music Award in Montecarlo in the 2000, in front at an VIP audience hall, included Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson (source: Universal [8] ).
He has also collaborated, produced and remixed songs for numerous artists of national and international level including: Jean Michel Jarre, Kool & The Gang, Laura Pausini, 883, Max Pezzali, Aqua. Zucchero, Nek, Andreas Johnson, Alphaville, Toni Braxton, S Club 7, The Country Cousins, Little Tony [3]
Collaborated to the production of 2 albums of the DJ Gabry Ponte, "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. DJ" and "Gabry Ponte" both released by Universal Italy, entering the national rankings (source: HitParadeItalia [13]) (source: HitParadeItalia [9] ) (source: [10]).
In 'Summer 2007 knew the Dari that begin an artistic collaboration as artistic producer and co-author of the songs, so a little later in February 2008 with DARI achieves Success with the song "Wale (Both Wale)". After the success of Wale with Dari and to 'label' Fondazione Sonora" received some awards including: Award of the 2008 Meeting of Independent Labels, Clips Italian Prize in 2008 as" Newcomer of the Year Video "for" Wale "of Dari. The DARI also won 2 MTV TRL Awards in 2008 as "Best New Artist" and 2009 "Best Look).
In 2010 Capuano has produced the "Salentino" Rock band of the "Fonokit" where by in 2011 receive positive critics.
Hollywood and Bollywood film scoring
In the 2011 has moved in Los Angeles to grow his experience as film composer. He composed the music for the movie "The Sleeping Warrior". (source: Imdb [11])
Discography
Singles
Some of hits most famous Singles and Album.
- 1993 - "Let Me Be" - N.1 Italy Dance Charts
- 1994 - "Take My Way" - N.1 Italy Dance Charts
- 1995 - "Stay with Me" - N.1 Italy Pop Charts
- 1995 - "You Make Me Cry" - N.1 Italy Dance Charts
- 2000 - "Move Your Body" - N.1 by 20 country in the World like USA, Germany, France and UK
- 2000 - "Europop" - more of 10 Million in the World take 3 Platinum Disc in the USA.
- 2003 - "Quelli che non Hanno Età" - Sanremo 2003
- 2004 - "The Man in The Moon" Italian Hit
- 2006 - "Ninja Turtles" - TV Cartoon Theme Soundtrack
- 2006 - "Just Be Good to Me" - N.1 Germany Top Charts
- 2008 - "Wale (Tanto Wale)" - Italian Hit
- 2009 - "Non pensavo" - "dARI"' e "Max Pezzali"
- 2009 - "Cercasi AAAmore" - "dARI"
- 2009 - dARI: Casa casa mia
- 2010 - dARI: Più di te
- 2011 - Fonokit: Non Esiste
Albums
- 1999 - Europop - Eiffel 65
- 2001 - Contact! - Eiffel 65
- 2003 - Eiffel 65 - Eiffel 65
- 2002 - Gabry Ponte - Gabry Ponte
- 2004 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. DJ - Gabry Ponte
- 2006 - Be Good to Me - Karmah
- 2008 - "sOtToVuOtO GeNeRaZiOnAlE" - dARI
- 2009 - "sOtToVuOtO D-Version - dARI
- 2010 - "In Testa - dARI
- 2011 - Fonokit: Amore o Purgatorio
Soundtracks and Film Scoring
- 1998 - Poken Monster - Pokémon TV Theme for Taiwan
- 2006 - Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ninja Turtles TV Theme) - TV RTI
- 2008 - Lifexence - AfterVille soundtrack - The Underground Exhibition Movie
- 2008 - Fire in The City - Calibro 70 soundtrack - a movie by Alessandro Rota
- 2009 - Hey Giò (Chiamatemi Giò) - TV Theme Disney Channel
- 2011 - The Journey to The Sacred Places (vo.1) - Lourdes Documentary soundtrack - a documentary by Alessandro Rota
- 2012 - A Modern Aborigins - The Sleeping Warrior soundtrack - a movie by Chayan Sarkar
Remixes and Cooperations
- Tout est Bleu - Jean Michel Jarre in collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre
- Come Mai - 883
- La Donna il Sogno e Il Grande Incubo - 883
- La Regina Del Celebrità - 883
- Viaggio al Centro Del Mondo - 883
- Everyone Has Inside - Gala
- Ring My Bell - Ann Lee
- Paradise - Simone Jay
- Get Down On It - Kool & The Gang
- Anywhere - Peach
- U Gotta Be - Alex Party
- Big in Japan - Alphaville
- Little Girl - Lilù
- Thinkin' Of You - Super Eva
- You And Me - Regina'[disambiguation needed
]' - All I Really Want - Kim Lukas
- The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
- Who Let The Dogs Out? - Bahaman
- Freaky Friday - Aqua
- Glorious - Andreas Johnson
- Reach - S Club 7
- Black And White - Ana Betz
- Thinkin Of You - Supereva
- Here Comes The Sunshine - Love Inc.
- Il Mio Sbaglio Più Grande - Laura Pausini
References
- ^ http://www.ziomusic.it/news/viewnews.php?id=12177
- ^ Eiffel 65 o Bloom 06 (source: Wikipedia en:Move Your Body) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europop_(album) http://www.sorrisi.com/sanremo/schede/art016002000239.jsp http://www.rockol.it/musicaitaliana.com/biografie/eiffel65.html http://www.discogs.com/release/322407, http://www.discogs.com/release/501292, http://www.discogs.com/release/11763, http://free.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=10793378,
- ^ http://www.discogs.com/search?type=all&q=mimmo+capuano&btn=Search, http://www.jarrography.free.fr/details.php?id_media=550, http://www.discogs.com/artist/MTJ+Capuano
Categories:- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Turin (city)
- Italian musicians
- Italian composers
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