Cappella was first launched in 1987 as a European Dance Act formed by producer Gianfranco Bortolotti, and went on to have International Success.The Act went through a number of Line-up changes over the years, in the early 90’s it was fronted by British performers Kelly Overett and Rodney Bishop. Their biggest hit was “U Got 2 Let The Music”, which hit the UK
charts in 1993.
Renowned as one of the biggest Dance Acts in Europe they had 9 Top Ten Hits and 3 No. 1 Hits with:
*U GOT 2 LET THE MUSIC*
*MOVE ON BABY*
*U & ME*
Cappella ended in 1999 but the Music still lived on with DJ’s and Producers from all over the World, sampling and mixing their songs. To this day the hits are instantly recognized. Cappella came back in 2013 performing their Original Hits and working on New Material.
Since 2013 original Producer and Creator of Cappella Gianfranco Bortolotti (Media Records) have teamed up with Marcus & Lis. Marcus & Lis are UK Award Winning Singer/Song writer/Performers, who had success with their Debut Single in 2009, hitting the official UK Top 20 midweek’s, and hit No1 on Spotify for most plays in 24 hours. Marcus & Lis have been one of the busiest Live Acts in the UK over the last few years performing on over 100 Live Shows per year.
Marcus & Lis are the new faces of Cappella to bring back the music to the old and new fans.
Since late 2013 Cappella have performed all over Europe, appearing on Shows to packed Arena’s, Events and Festivals to thousands of people.
2018 has been a big year for Cappella and Gianfranco Bortolotti is now planning on a New Single for the future…
C&C Music Factory were in the beginning Robert Clivillés and David Cole.
They had in 1990 an international chartbreaker with Gonna Make You Sweat, what would end on #1 in the charts of the USA and the Netherlands.
The rap in this song was done by Freedom Williams. Also on their following records they often used guest appearances.
After Gonna Make You Sweat, C&C Music Factory scored a total of 6 other international hits, like the cover of Pride (In the Name of Love) and Things that make you go hmmm.
As Clivilles & Cole they had also a huge clubhit with the track A Deeper Love
Also as producers for other artists, like Mariah Carey, they had huge succes.
In 1994 C&C Music Factory release a second album, but early 1995 David Cole died.
Boyzone are an Irish boy band. Their most famous line-up was composed of Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, and Shane Lynch. Boyzone have had 21 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 22 singles in the Irish charts. The group have had 6 UK number one singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12 of their 24 singles in the UK being in the UK Top 2. Boyzone are one of the most successful bands in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In total, Boyzone had 19 top 5 singles on the Irish Singles Chart, 18 top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, nine No. 1 Irish hit singles and six No. 1 UK hit singles and five No. 1 albums, with 25 million records sold by 2013 worldwide.
The group split in 1999. Boyzone made a comeback in 2007, originally with the intention of just touring. To date, Boyzone has released four studio albums and seven compilation albums.
The group have currently based on BPI certifications sold a minimum of 5.9 million albums and 7.1 million singles in the UK alone.
On 24 September 2013, the band performed one of the songs from their new album called “Love Will Save the Day” on The X Factor Australia. It was announced on the same day that the brand new album will be released on 25 November 2013 and became available to pre-order from Amazon. Boyzone released their new studio album BZ20 in November 2013 and it sold 200,000 copies in the UK, peaking at number 6 in the UK charts and number 7 in the Irish charts. Love Will save The Day was released a week previously and peaked at number 39 in the UK charts selling 20,000 copies.
In early 2014, a compilation album ‘Love Me For A Reason: The Collection’ was released and it has charted in Ireland and Belgium.
In 2014, further dates were added to their BZ20 Tour.
