Cappella

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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. At the time the act was fronted by the singer Ettore Foresti.



Some three years later Cappella returned with Take Me Away (UK 1), which sampled Loleatta Holloway's Love Sensation - the same track that had been unlawfully sampled 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: rapper Rodney Bishop (from SE London) and vocals from ex-SL2 dancer Kelly Overett (from Ipswich), although it has since emerged that Kelly did not perform on any of the records.



U Got 2 Let The Music (UK 2), Move On Baby (UK 7) and U & Me (UK 10) followed into the UK top ten as well as being pan-European hits. They had one more successful chart single "Move it up/Big beat" (UK 16). However, the group decided that they wanted a 'real' singer to replace Kelly so she was sacked and replaced by Allison Jordan (of "Boy from New York City" fame). By the time the group returned in the summer of 1995, Eurodance was rapidly going out of fashion so the single Tell Me The Way (UK 17) and the album War In Heaven were relatively unsuccessful.



(Courtesy of Wikipedia.com)