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Italy (1987 – present)

Cappella were an Italian/English eurodance group that found international success mainly in the early 1990s.

The name Cappella was first used in the year 1987. The main man behind Cappella was the Italian producer Gianfranco Bortolotti of Media Records, with contributions from the likes of Michele Persona and Mauro Picotto. In 1988 the act debuted on the British charts with the song “Bauhaus (Push The Beat)” - and the following year with Helyom Halib which peaked at #11.

Some three years later Cappella returned with Take Me Away, sung by Loleatta Holloway who had also been the uncredited vocalist on the #1 hit Ride On Time by Black Box in 1989.

It wasn’t until 1993 when Cappella managed to really gain momentum. After U Got 2 Know got to the heady heights of #6 in the UK, two permanent members were drafted in - Rodney Bishop (rap) and Kelly Overett as the lead ‘vocalist’, although it has since emerged that Kelly did not perform on any of the records.

Nevertheless, Cappella fronted by Kelly and Rodney managed to score three European-wide top ten singles from the U Got 2 Know album: U Got 2 Let the Music, U & Me and Move On Baby.

When in 1996 the long-awaited follow-up album War in Heaven was released, singer Alison Jordan replaced Kelly Overett. Tell Me the Way was the first single but it only received marginal success.

The act continued to have minor hits in Europe for a while, Be My Baby being the most noticeable in 1998, before resorting to remixes of previous big hits. The third (self-titled) studio album, which included Be My Baby, was only released in Japan but failed to sell huge.

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1	U Got 2 Know	329
2	U Got 2 Let The Music (Brescia Edit) full track	189
3	U Got 2 Let The Music	177
4	Move On Baby	138
5	Move It Up (Fierce edit) full track	50
6	U & Me	49
7	Move It Up	35
8	Turn It Up And Down	22
9	Tell Me The Way	20
10	Move It Up (KM 1972 mix) full track	17
11	U Got 2 Let The Music (DJ Pierre Mix) full track	16
12	Everybody	14
13	I Need Your Love	12
14	Don't Be Proud	11
15	U Got to Let the Music	8

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kirillovsmusic wrote:
13 days ago

"U got 2 let the music" just changed my life for good. Great.

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Terrasidius wrote:
last month

lol awesome!

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oyvindb wrote:
September 2009

Do u wanna dance? Listen Cappella! You can´t stop the body! [2]

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josecharts wrote:
July 2009

Move on baby move on baby!! you and me you and me <3

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MC-Escher wrote:
June 2009

Enfin, je les ai trouvés

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nti wrote:
May 2009

Move On Baby is the best!

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bgranli wrote:
May 2009

lol, loved them when I was a kid

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Hasintho wrote:
May 2009

U&Me Forever!

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eroticon wrote:
April 2009

вещь.

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krassikk wrote:
March 2009

perfect sounds of cappella

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neshitoIIDX wrote:
March 2009

Turn It Up And Down (L)

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hwoarang1986 wrote:
January 2009

my Childhood faves :D

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Marvin981 wrote:
January 2009

schön Live im ABACO gesehen..... erste Reihe versteht sich...

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condra wrote:
December 2008

The real rave group. http://www.last.fm/group/UK+Rave+89-94

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Curaitis wrote:
December 2008

Hehe, they were one of my favourites.

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DoomeyDoomey wrote:
November 2008

where's the proper mix of you gotta know?

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dioniciy wrote:
August 2008

моя любимая группа в стиле eurodance

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Vova_Putin wrote:
July 2008

приятно вспомнить детство

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b00ker wrote:
June 2008

мегакруто в свое время это музыка взрывала танцполы.

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ginogigiki wrote:
May 2008

move on..babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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