Dom Capuano
# Dom Capuano

Dom Capuano (born Domenico Capuano 21 April 1975), is an Italian music composer and producer of pop music, electronic dance music and orchestra.

His breakthrough as a producer and songwriter arrived in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like Eiffel 65, Da Blitz, Gabry Ponte and Karmah. He has also collaborated with several international artists including: Toni Braxton, S Club 7, Busta Rhymes, Jean Michel Jarre, Kool & The Gang, Laura Pausini, 883, Aqua. Zucchero, Nek, Andreas Johnson, Alphaville.

## Early life and career

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

In the early 1990s, he succeeded as a composer and record music producer and he is now considered a "successful composer on the mainstream" due to his continuous "maniacal" research and experimentation of new sounds.

Over the years, he has composed and produced many hits. In 1993, he composed "Let Me Be" launching the career of Da Blitz. (#11 in Italian charts). In 1994, he composed "Take My Way".

As a composer and arranger for DaBlitz, he has entered repeatedly Italian charts with "Let Me Be" and "Stay with Me" (which eventually reached the 1st position). Da Blitz will be in the standings again with the songs "Movin' On" and "Take Me Back" (which both peaked at number 4) and "I Believe" (which got to number 8 )

## Worldwide recognition

The album Europop by Eiffel 65 was released in US by Universal reaching the 4th position of 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, receiving good reviews from the American press (Ref: Pop Matters , Entertainment Weekly Archived 6 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine All Music )

Eiffel 65 received a Grammy Awards Nomination in 2001(source: Rockonthenet ) and their track "Move Your Body" was played at the World Music Awards of Montecarlo in 2000, in front of a VIP audience hall, that included Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson. In 2002 international press recognised the market distribution of Eiffel 65 as 15 million units sold worldwide including albums and singles.

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

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

Between 2002 and 2005, Dom collaborated with Gabry Ponte producing and writing songs like "The Man in the Moon" and "Depends on You" from the albums "Doctor Jekyll & Mr. DJ". 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 national rankings. (source: HitParadeItalia 2002 ) (2003: ).

In 2005, at Bliss Corporation, Dom produced, with Gabry Ponte, several tracks for the band "Karmah" which experienced quite a big success in Europe (mainly in Germany) peaking at #5 with a cover of SOS' "Just Be Good to Me" which contained a sample of the song "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.

## Italian pop music

In the summer of 2006, Dom met the band Dari and began an artistic collaboration as producer and co-author of some of their songs. In February 2008 the band achieved success in Italy with the song "Wale (Tanto Wale)". Soon after he received the following awards: the Italian Revelation video of the year for the track wALE (tANTo wALE) in 2008; 2 MTV TRL Awards in 2009 as "Best New Artist" and 2010 for the "Best Look".

In 2010, Capuano has produced the Rock band "Fonokit". In the same year he completed his music studies as conductor, which gave him the input to move to the US to pursue his passion for movies and soundtracks. (source: Imdb )

## Film scoring and Hollywood

In 2006, a new chapter began with the study of music composition for cinema and in 2008 Dom produces his first real and complete work for a 45 minutes film, "Calibro 70", directed by Alessandro Rota. (source: Imdb ). The film won some international film festivals (source: Imdb ). In 2009 he composed the soundtrack "Hey Gio" for the Disney Channel TV series "Chiamatemi Gio" (an Italian revision of "Ugly Betty"). (source: Imdb ).

After the soundtracks of Ninja Turtles and some other short films, in 2011 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as a composer for film.

In 2011, Dom composed and produced the soundtrack for the Australian film "The Sleeping Warrior". (Source: Imdb ) which treats a philosophical-political issue and was directed by the Indian filmmaker Chayan Sarkar. In 2012 he composed and produced the soundtrack for the American film "Solid State" (source: Imdb ) starring Vivica A. Fox.

He composed and produced the second episode of the trilogy directed by Stefano Milla "Richard The Lionheart: Rebellion": a story on the vicissitudes of the rise to the throne of the future King of England Richard I "the Lionheart", son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. (Source: Imdb ). With a first release in 2015 the film eventually got distributed by STUDIOCANAL for the UE and Sony Pictures for the U.S. In the same year he composed the soundtrack of the TV movie "Beautiful Destroyer". (Source: Imdb )

Dom is still composing for films and in 2016 he scored "The Silent Lynx" and "Branded" directed by Phil Gorn starring the London twins, Jeremy and James London, known for several TV series that have brought them to prominence in the '90s and Christopher Showerman, famous for his role in "George of the jungle" by Disney. (Source: Imdb )

Among his most appreciated collaborations there is "Kingdom of Gladiators, the Tournament" a film about fights and gladiators starring the hero of the WWF and WWE wrestling walk of fame star Solofa Fatu Jr. better known as Rikishi. (Source: Imdb )

In 2018, Enter the Fire starring Lou Ferrigno, had been released. The music scored by Dom Capuano is a revolutionary concept of soundscape and techno music which drives the movie to another level of soundtrack experience. (Source: )

## Other works

Always close to the academies and education, Dom composed numerous short films for students of American universities such as: USC University of Southern California, UCLA University of California Los Angeles, NYFA (New York Film Academy), AFI, (HIFA) Hollywood International Film Academy (source: Imdb ), (source: Imdb )

## Awards

With the album Europop he obtained a triple platinum award in the U.S. (certified RIAA) with over 3 million sales which include the song "Move Your Body" by Eiffel 65 and reaching over 10 million in sales worldwide. The single "Move Your Body" archived 3 Platinums in Australia, France and Germany, 2 Golds in UK and Austria with a total amount of over 1,500,000 sales. He also received other several gold awards with Da Blitz (6 golds in Italy and 1 in Spain), Gabry Ponte (2 golds), Karmah (2 golds in Germany)

## Discography

### Albums

Selected albums from sales chart rankings:

* 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
* 2008 – Gabry2o – Gabry Ponte
* 2009 – sOtToVuOtO D-Version – dARI
* 2010 – In Testa – dARI
* 2011 – Amore o Purgatorio – Fonokit

### Singles

Selected singles from sales chart rankings:

* 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" – N.3 Top Album Billboard Charts USA – 52 weeks on chart – 3x RIAA Platinum in the USA alone – more than 10 million sales worldwide.
* 2003 – "Quelli che non Hanno Età" – (Sanremo 2003) N.1 Italy Dance Charts N.3 Italy Top Charts
* 2004 – "The Man in The Moon" Italian Hit Performed by DJ Gabry Ponte N.1 Italy Dance Charts
* 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 – N.2 Italy Top Charts
* 2009 – "Non pensavo" – "dARI"' and "Max Pezzali" N.16 Italy Pop Charts
* 2009 – "Cercasi AAAmore" – N.9 Italy Pop Charts
* 2009 – "Casa casa mia" – N.15 Italy Pop Charts
* 2011 – "Non Esiste" – N.45 Italy Pop Charts
* 2017 – "Tu" – "Gabry Ponte feat. Umberto Tozzi"
* 2018 – "I Think I Love You" – N.41 Billboard Dance Charts – 6 weeks on chart

### Solo albums and EP

* 2012 – The Journey to The Sacred Places (vo.1)
* 2012 – The Chinese Power
* 2013 – Lifexence
* 2014 – Zombeat in a Solid State
* 2016 – The Chinese Power 2016
* 2017 – TrailerTunes

## Soundtracks and film scoring

* 1998 – Poken Monster – Pokémon TV Theme Taiwan
* 2006 – Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ninja Turtles TV Theme) – TV RTI
* 2008 – AfterVille – The Underground Exhibition Movie, Turin
* 2008 – Calibro 70
* 2009 – Hey Giò (Chiamatemi Giò) – TV Theme – The Italian Edition of Ugly Betty by Disney Channel
* 2011 – Lourdes (Documentary)
* 2012 – The Sleeping Warrior
* 2013 – The Solid State
* 2014 – Beautiful Destroyer
* 2015 – Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion
* 2016 – Branded
* 2017 – Kingdom of Gladiators, the Tournament
* 2018 – Enter The Fire

## Remixes and cooperations

* Tout est Bleu – Jean Michel Jarre in collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre
* All Over – Onyx ft Busta Rhymes
* Freaky Friday – Aqua
* Reach – S Club 7
* The Bad Touch – Bloodhound Gang
* Get Down On It RMX – Kool & The Gang
* Il mio sbaglio più grande – Laura Pausini
* Big in Japan RMX – Alphaville
* 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
* Anywhere – Peach
* U Gotta Be – Alex Party
* Little Girl – Lilù
* Thinkin' Of You – Super Eva
* You And Me – Regina
* All I Really Want – Kim Lukas
* Who Let The Dogs Out? – Baha Men
* Glorious – Andreas Johnson
* Black And White – Ana Bettz
* Thinkin Of You – Supereva
* Here Comes The Sunshine – Love Inc.

## Awards

* RIAA 3× Platinum (2000)
* Bundesverband Musikindustrie Platinum (2000)
* ARIA Platinum and Gold (2000–2001)
* SNEP Platinum (2000)
