Born in Mannheim and raised in Bürstadt, Capristo was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions in 2001, when she won Kiddy Contest, a reality television singing competition for teens in Austria, with her song Ich wünsche mir einen Bankomat.

In the mid to late 2000s, Capristo rose to fame as a founding member of the girl band Monrose, the result of the fifth season of the German television talent show Popstars.

In 2011, she collaborated with singer Peter Maffay on his Tabaluga musical track Die Zeit hält nur in Träumen an.

She won the competition with her song "Ich wünsche mir einen Bankomat", which subsequently appeared on the number-one compilation album Kiddy Contest, Vol.

Capristo appeared in shows such as Tabaluga Tivi or 1, 2 or 3, and in 2002, she recorded the song "Mosquito" for another Kiddy Contest album.

Since 2006, the girl group released four studio albums, Temptation, Strictly Physical, I Am, and Ladylike which entered the charts in the top 10.

[5] The last official TV appearance Monrose had was on 27 February 2011 with their single "Like a Lady" at the finale of Austria's Next Topmodel.

[6] Because of a cooperation with Peter Maffay, they recorded the song "Die Zeit hält nur in Träumen an" (German) and performed on 8 October at Wetten, dass..?

In March 2012, Mandy announced her first solo single "The Way I Like It" (written and produced by David Jost), would be released on 13 April.

[7][8][9] As her second single she released a song called "Closer", written by Robin Grubert and Martin Tingvall.

[10] On 28 October 2016, she released a song called "Ricorderai l'Amore (Remember the Love)" with Italian singer Marco Mengoni.

[11] In 2018, she took her old name Mandy Capristo back and released with singer Larsito her song "Si es amor", which debuted at number 52 in the German Charts for one week.

[15] Capristo has published songs in English; only for the Tabaluga project and the feature film Tangled (with Monrose) has she sung in German.

CD Bewertungen.de: "Her fans can look deep into her soul and makes clear that a lot is just smoke and mirrors as well as a "Star" has its problems, is lonely, has been violated.

"[16] The British magazine Popjustice wrote: "We love it in a very deep and pure way, of course, but we were hoping Mandy's album Grace would contain so many extraordinary tunes that we could make one of them a Big Song instead.

It was a campaign of the magazine Bravo which the young people should arrange to deal with issues such as social hot spots, violent conflict or bullying.

In 2008, Capristo was an ambassador of the Federal Foundation for Children's Hospice, supporting the issue climate change with the Climmate Fashion programme as a judge.