Capo (disambiguation)

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Capo may refer to:

• Capo, a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo.
• CAPO - Capital Arts Patrons Organization, a non-profit, non-political, private fundraising body, based in Canberra, Australia.
• Caporegime, usually shortened to capo, a captain in the Mafia.
• Capo di tutti capi, Italian for "Boss of all bosses", a phrase used in the Italian and American Cosa Nostra (Mafia).
• Harkonnen Capo Chair, one of H. R. Giger's furniture designs.
• Cannondale Capo, a model of single-speed bicycle

[edit] People

• Fran Capo, a motivational speaker, adventurer, comedian, voice-over artist, and writer.
• John Capo, American theater director and playwright.
• Jim Jones (rapper), goes by the nickname Capo in addition to Jim Jones.
• Lucky Capo (rapper), a rapper/song writer/producer from the UK.

[edit] Places

• Acquarica del Capo, a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.
• Capistrano Valley High School, commonly known as Capo.
• Capo d'Orlando, a comune in the province of Messina, Sicily, Italy.
• Capo di Ponte, a commune in the Italian province of Brescia, in Lombardy.
• Capo Sandalo Lighthouse, a prominent lighthouse on the westernmost point of San Pietro Island marking the southwestern corner of Sardinia, Italy.
• Capo Vaticano, a wide bathing place of the Municipality of Ricadi in Calabria, Italy.

[edit] See also

• Da capo (disambiguation)
  • Da capo (abbreviated D.C.), a musical term in Italian, meaning "from the beginning", a composer or publisher's directive to repeat the previous part of music
• Kapo