Catherine Capozzi is an award-winning film composer, guitarist, and producer. Her genre-bending musical style provides a base for composing innovative scores for films, including: Clickbait (2019), What Metal Girls are Into (2018), Blood of the Tribades (2016), Magnetic (2015), and TEN (2014). Her compositions have received Best Score awards at film festivals, including GenreBlast, Women in Horror, and the Sanford International Film Festival.
After being selected by Queen’s Brian May to win his famed “Red Special” guitar, Catherine founded Axemunkee to highlight her original guitar-based compositions. Axemunkee’s “Acid Django” has been featured multiple times on the History Channel’s hit program, “American Pickers” and other television shows. Catherine tours frequently throughout Europe and has been an invited guest artist for collaborations in the Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.
Catherine is also the creator of “Bring Us Your Women,” an international, collaborative multimedia spectacle honoring diverse female icons with stories reimagined through film, music, dance and poetry. The unique retellings of these stories aim to inform, empower, and inspire.
Catherine is included in the book: She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul by British rock writer Lucy O’Brien and was the inspiration for a character (Dr. Capozzi, a “mad genetic scientist with a heart of gold”) in Marvel Comics’ Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Catherine discusses her incredible career in the music industry and shares her sharp advice with EntreMusicians.
Visit Catherine at www.CatherineCapozzi.com
Show Notes:
00:00 - Show Open
01:37 - Catherine's Sound
05:23 - Four Bands at a Time
10:51 - Fauxmenco
14:26 - Formative Years
19:16 - Teaching
25:11 - Day Jobs
28:32 - Winning Brian May's Guitar
34:37 - Bass Playing
37:06 - Producing Other Artists
41:25 - Most Exhilarating Musical Experience
45:48 - Most Challenging Musical Experience
47:24 - Advice to EntreMusicians
50:31 - The Unasked Question
54:42 - Catherine's Contact
55:30 Slow Close
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