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Paul Caplin (born 31 December 1954) is an English businessman, musician, songwriter, producer, videographer and technology entrepreneur. He studied mathematics at
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and at
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. His career has spanned
music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
,
information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...
and
filmmaking Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a Film, motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screen ...
.


Musical career

Caplin began his musical career in his early twenties as a founding member of the
New Romantic New Romantic was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The movement emerged from the nightclub scene in London and Birmingham at venues such as Billy's and The Blitz. The New Romantic mo ...
rock group Animal Magnet, which was signed to
EMI Records EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was originally founded as a British flagship label by the music company EMI in 1972, and launched in January 1973 as the succes ...
and supported
Duran Duran Duran Duran () are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor (bass guitarist), John Taylor. After several early changes, the band's line-up settled ...
on their first national tour. He left Animal Magnet to become the “mastermind” behind the 1980s avant-garde new wave pop project Haysi Fantayzee, the other members being
Jeremy Healy Jeremy Healy (born Jeremiah Healy, 18 January 1962) is an English DJ and singer. He is a former member of 1980s pop group Haysi Fantayzee. Career Healy was born in Woolwich, South London. In the 1980s, with Paul Caplin and Kate Garner, h ...
and Caplin's then girlfriend,
Kate Garner Kathryn Mary Garner (born 9 July 1954) is a British photographer, fine artist and singer. Early life Garner was born in Wigan, Lancashire to Anne Philomena Shannon and George Sandeman Garner, a factory worker and a sailor. She was expelled ...
. Their music combined
reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Jamaican diaspora, diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first ...
,
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, and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes. The group disbanded after releasing three
hit single A hit song, also known as a hit record, hit single, or simply hit, is a recorded song or instrumental that becomes broadly popular or well-known. Although ''hit song'' means any widely played or big-selling song, the specific term ''hit record'' ...
s, and an
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that went
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. Caplin then launched his own record label, The Love Organization. This had success with Marilyn, who became popular during the mid-1980s vogue for sexually ambivalent pop stars. Caplin managed Marilyn and co-wrote his hit songs. Since 2015, Caplin has been working with the singer
Zeeteah Massiah Zeeteah Silveta Massiah (born December 24, 1956) is a Barbadian-born British singer particularly associated with reggae, jazz and house music. In a wide-ranging career she has recorded and/or toured with artists including Robbie Williams, Tom ...
, for whom he has written and produced three albums: ''Juice'' (2014), ''Maybe Tomorrow'' (2016) and ''Wat A Ting'' (2022).. Caplin and Massiah were married in 2016, and in 2024 they launched themselves as the music duo Caplin & Massiah. They have released three singles and an album under this name to significant critical acclaim.


Business career

After creating and running a small group of music production and publishing companies in the early 1980s, in 1985 Caplin founded Caplin Cybernetics Corporation, a computer hardware and software developer and a pioneer of
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technology. Caplin Cybernetics became an
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business partner and was later acquired by the Infinet Group, a diversified group of IT services companies of which Caplin was co-founder and chief executive. Caplin was also active in filmmaking, and in 1994 was executive producer of the documentary ''Pavarotti in Confidence with Peter Ustinov'' for the
BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
. In 2000, Caplin founded
FinTech Financial technology (abbreviated as fintech) refers to the application of innovative technologies to products and services in the financial industry. This broad term encompasses a wide array of technological advancements in financial services, ...
innovator Caplin Systems Ltd and served as its chief executive and chairman until the company’s sale in 2015. Caplin Systems pioneered the distribution of real-time financial data via the web, and built some of the earliest online trading platforms for
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. In 2001, he received an
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Entrepreneur of the Year award, and in both 2002 and 2009 Caplin Systems was featured in
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as one of the fastest-growing technology firms in Britain. In 2015, Caplin Systems was acquired by Ion Capital Management, at which point Caplin stepped down from his role at the company and returned to music making.


Personal life

Caplin is married to singer
Zeeteah Massiah Zeeteah Silveta Massiah (born December 24, 1956) is a Barbadian-born British singer particularly associated with reggae, jazz and house music. In a wide-ranging career she has recorded and/or toured with artists including Robbie Williams, Tom ...
, with whom he now releases music as Caplin & Massiah.


References


External links


''Financial Times'' article about Paul Caplin



Caplin Systems company website

Caplin & Massiah official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Caplin, Paul Living people 1954 births Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of Cambridge Businesspeople from London English new wave musicians English keyboardists English record producers English male songwriters English chief executives Musicians from London