1. Caparezza's mother was a teacher and his father was a worker and former musician, so Michele started playing music as a child.
10 Facts About Caparezza
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Caparezza anchored the broadcast Segnali di Fumo together with Paola Maugeri on the Video Music Italian channel.
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Caparezza stopped cutting his hair and beard and changed his pseudonym from Mikimix to Caparezza.
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Caparezza's fifth album, Habemus Capa, is a criticism of society's contradictions.
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In Habemus Capa songs include "La mia parte intollerante" which again discusses marginalization by Caparezza identifying himself in a marginalized 16-year-old boy expressing all his desires for a more open and less vicious behaviour from teenagers.
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Caparezza was a member of Sunny Cola Connection, a group who sings in the Apulian dialect.
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Caparezza's band includes Rino Corrieri, Gaetano Camporeale, Giovanni Astorino and Alfredo Ferrero.
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Mariano Prunes describes Caparezza as "[defying] classification with his fascinating cross-contamination of styles".
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Caparezza's lyrics focus on subjects such as personal honesty and the hypocrisy of the music industry.
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Caparezza is backed by a rock band, rather than a DJ.