Giosafatte ‘Giosy’ Capuano and his younger brother Mario
Capuano were born in Rome in the mid-1940s. They both began their musical
careers as teenagers. Giosy went to Rome to start his career while Mario spent
over three years in Scandanavia while both were in their late teens. Giosy
contacted Mario and had him join him in Rome working as a team of producers,
composers, arrangers and songwriters at Durium records. They would spend the
next 20 years in this artistic association. They formed their own group and
immediately began to find international success with three records in the top
ten all at the same time. Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum, Sacramento, Samson &
Delilah, Bottoms Up, Union Silver, Kailakee Kailakoo, Honey No, Yellow
Boomerang, On This Land, Give It Time, To Remind Me, The Talk of All The USA.
Other artists then began using compositions written and arranged by the Capuano
brothers to great success such as Sheila (Les Rois Mages, Vive La Terre), Demis
Roussos (Perdoname), Nana Mouskouri (Ni Vivre Ni Mourir), Agnetha Fältskog
(ABBA) (En Sång Om Sorg Och Glädje), Johan Daansen (Deadly Game), Sonny Blanco
(Blueberry Wine), Tommy Steiner (Ich Dech
'Mich Zu Mit Meinen Träumen), Andy Foxx (Afrikaan Blue, Thank The Lord For The
Night), Cyan (Misaluba), Rita Deneve (Zomordromen), Mal (Mighty Mighty &
Roly Poly, Crazy Kings, Love Collector), Anita Mayer (No One To Hold Me), Tosti
& Capuano Brothers
(Indian Springtime), an instrumental television theme for
the transmission ‘The Boys of the Five Circles’ aired on the occasion of the
1972 Olympic Games. .
The brothers founded, in partnership with Giacomo Tosti,
Catoca, a record company with offices and studios in Rome and offices in London
. It is abroad, in fact, that Mario followed to carry out much of his work,
with the exception of some Italian parentheses as arranger/producer and author,
writing, among other things, pieces for Amii Stewart (Working Late Tonight, with
which he participates in the Festival of Sanremo 1983 , and Mother Mary) and
Tullio de Piscopo (Slow progress, And Then and Then, Qui gatta incubates, three
titles linked to as many participations in Sanremo, besides Jastaò, Libero,
Compressed energy and what have you got?
The duo composed the score for one Euro-western: “Two
Faces of the Dollar” (1967).
CAPUANO, Giosy (aka
Giosofat) (Giosafatte Capuano) [194?, Rome, Lazio, Italy - ], CAPUANO,
Mario [1945, Rome, Lazio, Italy -
] – producers, composers, arrangers, songwriter, musicians.
Two Faces of the Dollar (1967)
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