Dom Capuano

Dom Capuano (born Domenico Capuano 21 April 1975), is an Italian music composer for pop music and film, songwriter and music producer
He broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Eiffel 65, Da Blitz, the DJ Gabry Ponte and the Karmah, also has collaborated with several international artists including: Jean Michel Jarre, Kool & The Gang, Laura Pausini, 883, Aqua. Zucchero, Nek, Andreas Johnson, Alphaville, Toni Braxton, S Club 7, Busta Rhymes and more..

He studied music, in particular the double bass at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music in Turin Italy. He is also a piano player, composer and orchestral conductor. His entire musical career is split into two different path, the records industry and the symphonic music.

Since the early 1990s has established itself as a composer and record music producer and is considered a "successful composer on the mainstream" due to its continuous research and experimental sound manic.

Over the years he has composed and produced many hits record.

In 1993 composed "Let me be" starting up the career of the Da Blitz. (Maximum number 11 position [1]). In 1994 and again for "Take My Way" [1]

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 [2])

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 with the Da Blitz, Gabry Ponte, Karmah (2 in Germany, 2 in UK, 6 in Italy including for the single "Let Me Be" by Da Blitz, 1 France, 1 Spain)

The album of Europop Eiffel 65 was released in US by Universal reaching the Pos #4 of the U.S. charts by selling a total of 3,800,000 copies. Europop was also released worldwide with different record labels including Warner Music and Sony Music. (source: BlissCo. [7]) also getting good reviews in the American press (Ref: Pop Matters [3], Entertainment Weekly [4] All Music [5])

The Eiffel 65 received the Grammy Awards Nomination in the 2001(source: Universal [6] ), also Move Your Body was played in the Music Award in Montecarlo in the 2000, in front at a VIP audience hall, included Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson. In the 2002 few international press identified the market distribution of Eiffel 65 as 15 million units worldwide and over including albums and singles. (source: Universal [7] ).

In the 2000 and 2001 Dom remixed more the 40 songs for various international artists including "Tout est Bleu" by Jean Michel Jarre which co-produced the song step by step together. Dom says that it was a huge honor to have collaborated with Mr. Jarre and it was one of the best satisfaction of his entire life since he studied years before electronic music getting actually Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield as references.

Over the years Dom produced also few Remixes for the 883 including, "Come Mai", "La Donna, Il Sogno e Il Grande Incubo", "Gli Anni" credited as Bliss Team and also "Viaggio al centro del mondo" and the hit "La Regina del Celebrità" credited as Eiffel 65.

Between 2002 and 2005 Dom collaborated with Gabry Ponte producing and writing songs such "The Man in the Moon" and "Depends on You" from the albums "Doctor Jekyll Mr. DJ" and later from the album "Gabry Ponte" was extracted the single "Figli di Pitagora" performed by Italian Rock'n’ Roll Legend "Little Tony". Both Albums were released by Universal Italy and both reached the top of the national rankings. (source: HitParadeItalia [13]) (source: HitParadeItalia [8] ) (source: [9]).

in the 2005 with Gabry Ponte, Dom produced the band of "Karmah" which experienced some success in several European countries mainly in Germany reaching the top national rank at the pos #5 with the cover of the SOS Band’ named "Just Be Good to Me" which was produced using a sample from the song "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.

In the summer 2006 Dom met the band of Dari beginning an artistic collaboration as artistic producer and co-author of the songs, and a little later in February 2008 with DARI achieves Success with the song "Wale (Tanto Wale)". After the success of Wale with Dari and with the 'label' Fondazione Sonora" received some awards including: Award of the 2008 Meeting of Independent Labels, Clips Italian Prize in 2008 as" Video revelation of the Year "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". In the same year he completed his studies of music and orchestral conductor, this gave him the input to move in the USA to follow and pursue his passion for movie and soundtrack score. (source: Imdb [1])

After the soundtracks of "Ninja Turtles" and some short film in the 2011 has moved in Los Angeles to improve his experience and follow his dream as film composer. He composed the music for the movie "The Sleeping Warrior" and later in the 2013 the soundtrack for "The Solid State". (source: Imdb [1]) In 2014 composed the music for "Beautiful Destroyer" a movie of Christopher Dorrah and later in the 2015 Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion directed by Stefano Milla.

In the 2016 Capuano scored the thriller "Branded" directed by Phil Gorn starring the London twins.

Singles

Selected Singles.

• 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, - N.70 European Hot 100 Singles
• 1995 - "Movin' On" - N.94 European Hot 100 Singles
• 1995 - "Take Me Back" - N.75 European Hot 100 Singles
• 1995 - "You Make Me Cry" - N.1 Italy Dance Charts
• 2000 - "Move Your Body" - N.1 by 20 country in the World such USA, Germany, France and UK
• 2000 - "Europop" - more of 10 Million in the World got 3 Platinum Disc in the USA.
• 2003 - "Quelli che non Hanno Età" - Sanremo 2003
• 2004 - "The Man in The Moon" Italian Hit Permormed by DJ Gabry Ponte
• 2006 - "Ninja Turtles" - TV Cartoon Theme Soundtrack
• 2006 - "Just Be Good to Me" - N.1 Germany Top Charts
• 2008 - "Wale (Tanto Wale)" - Italian Hit by Dari
• 2009 - "Non pensavo" - "dARI"' e "Max Pezzali"
• 2009 - "Cercasi AAAmore" - "dARI"
• 2009 - dARI: Casa casa mia
• 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 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
• 2013 - Zombeat in a Solid State - The Solid State soundtrack - a movie by Stefano Milla
• 2014 - Leigh the Beautiful Destroyer - Beautiful Destroyer soundtrack - a movie by Chris Dorrah
• 2015 - The Rebellion - Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion soundtrack - a movie by Stefano Milla
• 2016 - Branded - Branded soundtrack - a movie by Phil Gorn

• 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
• All I Really Want - Kim Lukas
• The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
• Who Let The Dogs Out? - Baha Men
• Freaky Friday - Aqua
• Glorious - Andreas Johnson
• Reach - S Club 7
• Black And White - Ana Bettz
• Thinkin Of You - Supereva
• Here Comes The Sunshine - Love Inc.
• Il mio sbaglio più grande - Laura Pausini

• RIAA 3x Platinum (2000)
• Bundesverband Musikindustrie 1x Platinum (2000)
• ARIA 1x Platinum and 1x Gold (2000-2001)
• SNEP 1x Platinum (2000)

• http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database,
• http://www.musikindustrie.de/566/
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 September 2008. Retrieved 2012-08-02. 
• http://www.snepmusique.com