Cappello toured with Ringo Starr in 19 as a member of his All-Starr Band. Cappello performed on the 1993 soundtrack album What's Love Got to Do with It, playing saxophone as well as singing Ike Turner's vocal parts in an updated version of the song ' Proud Mary'. Recording and touring with her over several years, Cappello's work can be heard on Turner's tracks ' We Don't Need Another Hero' and ' One of the Living' from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) in addition to appearing in the music videos for both singles.

In 1984, Cappello was hired by Tina Turner as her keyboardist and saxophonist. Cappello's sexual stage presence was further cultivated during his work with The Ken Dolls-performing in a style dubbed 'porn pop', Cappello was known to perform in a g-string. 'Thunderbolt' Patterson (also of The Dictators and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom) and Joe Carroll, a composer/producer who is president and founder of the Manhattan Producer's Alliance (ManHatPro). ДЇrom 1981 to 1982, Cappello fronted his own pop band in New York City called The Ken Dolls -a band that included drummer J.P. Cappello toured with Carly Simon later that same year, once appearing on stage in a leather g-string, as well as chains and a dog leash by which Simon pulled him onto the stage. After struggling with heroin addiction, Cappello quit the drug ' cold turkey' in 1979 and began bodybuilding in 1980. Cappello also toured with Garland Jeffreys in 1978, playing both saxophone and keyboards. He played saxophone for Peter Gabriel on his album Peter Gabriel 2 (1978) in addition to touring with Gabriel. Career Д¬appello studied intermittently with Lennie Tristano over a four-year span between touring with performers such as musician Eric Carmen and comedian Billy Crystal. He later studied saxophone under the tutelage of jazz musician, Lennie Tristano. When he was 15 years old, Cappello dropped out of high school and was accepted at the New England Conservatory of Music, playing both drums and keyboards for his audition. The youngest of three children, his Sicilian father was a local conductor and music teacher.

Cappello was born and grew up in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Harrison, New York, which, at the time, had a White Plains, New York, postal service address.

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