Career
He began his musical career in his early twenties in New Romantic rock group Animal Magnet, and co-wrote their dance hit Welcome to the Monkey House (1981). Animal Magnet supported Duran Duran on their first national tour. Caplin left Animal Magnet to become the "secret mastermind" behind the 1980s avant-garde new wave popular project Haysi Fantayzee, the other members being Jeremy Healy and Caplin"s then girlfriend, Kate Garner.
Their music combined reggae, country and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes.
Haysi Fantayzee combined an extreme clothes sense — described as blending white Rasta, tribal chieftain and Dickensian styles — with a quirky musical sound comparable to other new wave musical popular acts of the era, such as Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Bananarama. The group disbanded after releasing three hit singles, and an album that went gold.
Caplin then launched his own record label, The Love Organization. Caplin managed Marilyn and co-wrote his hit songs.
Since 1985. Caplin has been involved in the computer hardware and software industries and in film production.
In 1994, he was executive producer of Pavarotti in Confidence with Peter Ustinov for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He is Chairman of Caplin Systems, a software company that provides web technology for financial services. Caplin Systems was featured in the Sunday Times Technical Track 100 in both 2002 and 2009 as one of the 100 fastest-growing technology firms in Britain. Caplin is married to singer Zeeteah Massiah, with whom he writes and produces music
They released the album Juice together in 2014.
