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Cappella

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The next Cappella concert is scheduled for Saturday, November 29, 2025 at MECC in Maastricht, Netherlands. See all 1 upcoming concerts
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Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) [Cover]renewwed & Cappella
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Upcoming Concerts for Cappella

  • Nov
    29
    Nov 29, 2025
    MECC
    Maastricht

Latest Release

Listen to U & Me (Radio Edit) - Single by Cappella, Luv Foundation (UK) & Ruff Loaderz
ALBUMU & Me (Radio Edit) - SingleCappella, Luv Foundation (UK) & Ruff Loaderz

More albums from Cappella

Listen to U & Me 2020 by Cappella & Jason Parker
ALBUMU & Me 2020Cappella & Jason Parker
Listen to Power (feat. Bootmasters) by Cappella
ALBUMPower (feat. Bootmasters)Cappella
Listen to U Got 2 Know 2010 by Cappella
ALBUMU Got 2 Know 2010Cappella
Listen to Heylom Halib album by Cappella
ALBUMHeylom Halib albumCappella
Listen to Move It Up / Rockin' My Body - EP by Cappella & 49ers
ALBUMMove It Up / Rockin' My Body - EPCappella & 49ers
Listen to U Got 2 Know Album by Cappella
ALBUMU Got 2 Know AlbumCappella
Listen to U Got 2 Let The Music by Cappella
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About Cappella

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Hometown
Italy
Formed
1987
Genre
Dance
An Italo-house production team employing up to ten different studios, at least a trio of producers for every production and scores of session workers, Cappella is mostly the creation of producer Gianfranco Bortolotti. Undoubtedly influenced by Motown's assembly-line aesthetic (as well as the '80s British dance team of Stock, Aitken & Waterman), Bortolotti coordinated the work of longtime producers DJ ProfXor, RAF and DJ Pierre (not the Chicago producer) to create dozens of European club/chart hits under the aliases Cappella, 49ers, Fargetta, RAF, Clubhouse and East Side Beat. For good or ill, Bortolotti's productions were most responsible for the Italian house phenomenon of the late '80s and early '90s, based on an often-maligned push-button production blueprint which includes only the cheesiest of melodies, samples, piano lines and diva vocals. Each single produced by Bortolotti's Media Productions underwent rigorous testing and remixing for maximum airplay in each country it's released, with only Bortolotti holding the final say on what appears. Throughout the 1990s, Cappella was one of the most thoroughly unartistic dance acts -- and for the most part, proud of it. Inspired by the productions of Italo-disco producer and mixer DJ Pierre, Gianfranco Bortolotti began mixing around Italy while at school in the late '70s. The Cappella Project had already debuted as a production team by the end of the decade, though Bortolotti did little more than mix in the music industry until the mid-'80s. In 1987, he produced Cappella's "Bauhaus (Push the Beat)," a club hit throughout Europe and the UK. The following year brought the contintent-wide Top 10 hit "Heylom Halib," which presaged a wave of similar-sounding Italian house tracks during 1989-90. Bortolotti recorded a Cappella album (the cash-in heavy Heylom Halib), and scored again with the singles "Be Master in One's Own House" and "House of Energy Revenge." To his credit, he did recruit seminal diva Loleatta Holloway for the single "Take Me Away," less successful than the chart-entries but much better. After several additional 1992-93 hits ("U Got 2 Know"), Bortolotti decided to make an act of Cappella with the addition of two Brits -- Rodney Bishop (formerly with Positive Gang) and Kelly Overett (a vocalist who had worked with SL2). The singles "U Got 2 Let the Music" and "Move on Baby" became Cappella's biggest hits, hitting number one in several countries during 1994. The album U Got 2 Know did appreciably well, though Overett left by 1995 (to be replaced by Allison Jordan). Soon however, Cappella appeared to be running on steam. The 1995-96 singles like "Tell Me the Way" and "I Need Your Love" barely made the European charts, and their 1996 album War in Heaven fared poorly (though it was released in America). ~ John Bush
Members of Cappella include, or have included, Gianfranco Bortolotti and Bishop.

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