Exposé (volume)
| Expose | |
|---|---|
 Exposé at the Grammy Awards (1990) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Freestyle , Adult Contemporary , R&B , Dance , Pop , House |
| founding | 1984, 2006 |
| resolution | 1996 |
| Website | www.exposeonline.net |
| Founding members | |
| Sandra "Sandeé" Casañas (until 1986) Alejandra "Alé" Lorenzo (until 1986) Laurie Miller (until 1986) |
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| Current occupation | |
| Ann Curless (since 1986) Jeanette Jurado (since 1986) Gioia Bruno (since 1986) Kelly Moneymaker (since 1992) |
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Exposé is an American singing group from Miami , Florida . The group, which consisted primarily of singers Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado and Gioia Bruno, had their greatest hits between 1987 and 1993, becoming the first group to have four top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 from their debut album, inclusive the 1987 number-one hit Seasons Change .
The group recorded various records from 1985 to 1995 and went on tour. She retired from the business by 2003 and has been touring again since the reunification in 2006.
history
Formation and original occupation (1984–1985)
Exposé was originally founded in 1984 when Lewis Martineé, a Miami disc jockey and producer, decided to start a dance group. Talent scouts Sandra Casañas (Sandeé), Alejandra Lorenzo (Alé) and Laurie Miller were recruited for the group and were first named X-Posed .
In early 1985, the trio Point of No Return recorded as a single on Pantera Records, which reached number one in the US dance charts. The song helped introduce the still popular style of music, freestyle , which was often composed of keyboard riffs, a catchy chorus and an electro- funk rhythm from a drum machine .
The success of Point of No Return quickly led to a contract with Arista Records / BMG Records , which were then responsible for the distribution of the single. Less than a year later, Exposé recorded the second single called Exposed to Love . These songs appeared when the radio stations began playing non-stop mixes of house , club and dance pieces . Exposé noticed the continued success and started a club tour. Impressed by the success of the two singles and the sound, Arista assured the group that they would support the recording of an album.
Personnel changes (1986)
A little later, Casañas left the group to embark on a solo career, and Lorenzo left to pursue other projects; they were replaced by Jeanette Jurado and Gioia Bruno. Before the album was completed, Miller left the group for personal and business reasons and began a solo career. She was replaced by Ann Curless.
Lorenzo returned to the dance charts in 1988 and 1990 with the tracks I Wanna Know and Stop Me If I Fall in Love , while Miller showed her talents on luxury cruises in a more intimate jazz style and started her own entertainment company, Xica Productions. Casanas released a solo album as Sandeé, Only Time Will Tell , which brought her the club hits You're the One , Love Desire and Notice Me , which was produced by Clivilles & Cole . She toured clubs and freestyle shows until she passed away on December 15, 2008. All three founding members sang for Will to Power on their album of the same name.
Exposure (1987–1988)
In February 1987 Exposé released their debut album Exposure on Arista Records. In contrast to many classic girl groups , the members took turns as the main singer.
Starting with the dance pop hit Come Go with Me , which was released in January 1987 and reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, the group cemented its connection with the freestyle genre.
In April 1987, Point of No Return was re-released, this time with Jurado as the singer, and also reached number five on the Hot 100. While the original pressing of Exposure still contained the old version of the title, the new version was included on the following editions . This made the original pressing a collector's item.
Let Me Be the One , a mid-paced R&B piece with Bruno as the singer, received support in the R&B scene and reached number seven.
The group's biggest hit came out in November 1987 with the number one single Seasons Change . This resulted in a nomination for the Soul Train Award for Best New Artist and television appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, Showtime at the Apollo and The Late Show with Joan Rivers . They also went on a US tour with Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam . Exposure remains one of the most successful dance albums of all time.
Exposé also provided the background vocals on Kashif's album Love Changes for Who's Getting Serious in 1987.
At the height of the group's success, litigation was taking place behind the scenes. Similar to the girl groups of the 1960s, the members of Exposé had restrictive contracts and there were reports in the media of real battles behind the scenes. According to Bruno, they only got $ 200 per show. The label stepped in to keep the peace between the members and the producers. Despite this intervention, the members filed a lawsuit and only settled the dispute after new contract negotiations.
What You Don't Know (1989-1991)
In June 1989, What You Don't Know, the group's second album followed, which was awarded a gold record. The success in the USA led to similar girl groups, which were put together by producers and also signed by bigger labels like Company B , The Cover Girls , Sweet Sensation and Seduction . Shortly after the success of the singles What You Don't Know (May 1989) and When I Looked at Him (August 1989), the release of Tell Me Why (December 1989) made music history, as it made the group the first girl group to join the seven Top 10 hits in a row in the USA. Tell Me Why was aimed at gangs and young people and brought the group praise for their socially committed texts. Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue and Stop, Listen, Look & Think followed in the spring of 1990. The latter appeared in the film Lambada - The Forbidden Dance from 1990, which appeared during the Lambada boom.
Their continued success brought Exposé to their first major tour and television appearances on Soul Train, the Pat Sajak Show, the Byron Allen Show and Dick Clark 's New Year's Rockin 'Eve on December 31, 1989.
The group's popularity also grew in other countries such as Japan , where Bruno, Curless and Jurado appeared in some commercials for Takara, a Japanese soft drink. The music in the commercials was What You Don't Know with slightly different lyrics.
In the summer of 1990, following the commercial success of the first two albums, Arista released the video compilation Video Exposure on VHS and Laser Disc. It contained the music videos of the first eight singles by Bruno, Curless and Jurado, from Come Go with Me to Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue .
Exposé provided the backing vocals for the song Jingle Bells on Barry Manilow's album Because It's Christmas and also appeared in Manilow's music video for Because It's Christmas .
In August 1990 Bruno got throat problems on the tour with Exposé. These were caused by a benign tumor on the vocal cords and resulted in the tour being stopped for a short time. The group took some time off in hopes of recovery. Eventually Bruno lost her voice and could not sing for several years. She was also only allowed to speak a little. In the end, she was replaced by Kelly Moneymaker in 1992.
Exposé (1992–1995)
After Kelly Moneymaker joined the group, they released their third album of the same name in October 1992, Exposé , which in addition to their established freestyle, house, R&B, pop and ballad repertoire also contained adult contemporary elements. It was the first album in which other producers besides Martineé were involved, with Clive Davis being the main producer and Martineé only responsible for four songs. The album was supposed to show the musical evolution of the group and to compete with the success of Wilson Phillips , who had great success with their debut album in 1990.
The third album was not as commercially successful as the previous two, but still went gold. The singles I Wish the Phone Would Ring and I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me made the US Top 40. The following releases As Long as I Can Dream and In Walked Love were sung by Curless. A last club single in 1995 showed the group's first change. I Specialize in Love was sung by Jurado, with Curless and Moneymaker taking the lead in the end. The original version was by Sharon Brown and was a top 10 hit on the dance charts in 1982. Television appearances during this period include Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno , the Les Brown Show, and the children's show Xuxa.
In 1995 Exposé recorded the song I'll Say Good-Bye for the Two of Us written by Diane Warren , which appeared on the soundtrack of Free Willy 2 and was sung by Jurado. In the same year it appeared on their greatest hits album. The song is characteristic of the group with the solo vocals Jurados without background vocals.
Solo projects (1996-2003)
At the end of 1995 Arista dismissed the group, which separated in early 1996 and whose members were pursuing their own projects. Nevertheless, labels of the Sony BMG group released two further greatest hits collections as well as a collection of popular remixes of their singles.
After the group broke up, Jurado appeared in the play Mad Hattan and sang for jazz guitarist Nils and Safe Sax ; Moneymaker married the soap opera actor Peter Reckell and brought out two solo albums ( Like a Blackbird and Through These Basement Walls ); Curless worked as a songwriter , sang in various club and dance projects and created academic teaching materials about music and the music business. Jurado and Curless got married and had children, which temporarily prevented them from performing.
In 1997 Bruno recovered from her tumor and began singing again. After a short interlude with the band Wet , she worked on a solo career in dance. Her first album, Expose This , was released in spring 2004.
Reunification (since 2004)
After a long hiatus, Curless, Jurado and Moneymaker got together briefly on August 1, 2003 for a reunion concert at the Mid State Fair in Paso Robles , California . Safe Sax members were part of the group's live band. While they would have liked to perform together more often, according to Moneymaker that was not yet possible at the time.
In 2006, Jurado by MySpace announced that they had signed with a major agency, and Bruno said it was the first time in 15 years that she was back at Exposé. Moneymaker said she would stand in for any member who was unavailable or appear with the full cast on certain occasions.
On October 21, 2006 Exposé started their tour in the American Airlines Arena in Miami at the Freestyle Explosion Concert with the cast Curless, Jurado and Bruno. On November 29, 2006, Exposé delivered a 16-song show with a full band at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino Northern Lights Theater in Milwaukee , which was also the first full concert with Bruno since 1990. The group performed at freestyle concerts and gay pride events across the country. The group also continues to perform at special events across the United States, at venues like Epcot and Mohegan Sun's Wolf Den.
In December 2007 Jurado, Bruno, Curless, Moneymaker, Paradise Artists and Walking Distance Entertainment were accused in a trial by Crystal Entertainment & Filmworks (I & II). The subject was the license rights to the name Exposé. The first lawsuit was dismissed. The second ended up in court. During the trial, the charges against Paradise Artists and Moneymaker were dropped and a counterclaim was filed against the prosecutors. On May 26, 2009, the court found that plaintiffs could not prove they owned the name and ruled that because of the cast, which has existed since 1986, and the name's clear identification with group members on their albums and Tours the defendants would have provided legal proof of ownership of the name. The court granted Jurado, Bruno and Curless exclusive rights to the name.
Exposé took note of their victory and made their first appearance with Moneymaker as a guest at the LA Gay Pride Festival on June 14, 2009, the first time all four members were on stage together.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
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 UK
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 US
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| 1987 | Exposure | - |
US16  × 2
(74 weeks)US |
First published: March 2, 1987
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| 1989 | What you don't know | - |
US33  (50 weeks)US |
First published: June 13, 1989
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| 1992 | Expose | - |
US135 (13 weeks)US |
First published: October 9, 1992
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Compilations
| year | title | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | The Encore Collection: Seasons Change | First published: November 22, 1993 |
| 1995 | Greatest hits | First published: November 21, 1995 |
| 1999 | Master hits | First published: July 27, 1999 |
| 2002 | Exposé's Greatest Dance Mixes | First published: February 2, 2002 |
| 2006 | Dance mixes | First published: January 31, 2006 |
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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UK
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US
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| 1987 | Come Go with Me Exposure |
- |
US5 (19 weeks) US |
First published: January 1987
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| Point of No Return Exposure |
UK83 (4 weeks) UK |
US5 (17 weeks) US |
First published: April 1987
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| Let Me Be the One Exposure |
UK76 (5 weeks) UK |
US7 (22 weeks) US |
First published: May 1987
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Seasons Change Exposure |
UK97 (2 weeks) UK |
US1 (20 weeks) US |
First published: November 1987
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| 1989 | What You Don't Know What You Don't Know |
UK99 (2 weeks) UK |
US8th (15 weeks)US |
First published: May 1989
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| When I Looked at Him What You Don't Know |
- |
US10 (19 weeks) US |
First published: August 1989
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| Tell Me Why What You Don't Know |
UK97 (1 week) UK |
US9 (15 weeks) US |
First published: December 1989
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| 1990 | Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue What You Don't Know |
- |
US17 (16 weeks) US |
First published: March 1990
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| 1992 | I Wish the Phone Would Ring Exposé |
- |
US28 (15 weeks) US |
First published: September 1992
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| 1993 | I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me Exposé |
UK75 (1 week) UK |
US8th (29 weeks)US |
First published: February 1993
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| As Long as I Can Dream Exposé |
- |
US55 (14 weeks) US |
First published: July 1993
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| 1994 | In Walked Love Exposé |
- |
US84 (6 weeks) US |
First published: January 1994
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More singles
- 1985: Exposed to Love
- 1990: Stop, Listen, Look & Think
- 1995: I'll Say Good-Bye for the Two of Us
- 1995: I Specialize in Love
Video albums
- 1990: Exposure (US:gold)
literature
- Various: All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul . Hal Leonard Corporation, 2003, ISBN 0-87930-744-7 .
Web links
- Official website
- MySpace page of Exposé
- Exposé at Allmusic (English)
- The Exposé Epistle On-Line. News page about synopsis
- Laurie Miller's Official Site and MySpace Page
- Official press release about the return of Exposé
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of # 1 Hits . 5th edition. Billboard Publications, 2003, p. 691.
- ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003 . Record Research, 2004, p. 94.
- ↑ a b Interview with Lewis Martineé. FreestyleMusic.com; Retrieved May 16, 2009.
- ^ Sarah Worn: Interview with Gioia Bruno of Exposé. In: Afterellen.com . October 24, 2006, archived from the original on February 5, 2012 ; accessed on May 6, 2017 .
- ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003 . Record Research, 2004, p. 46.
- ↑ John R. Troy: Interview with Kelly Moneymaker, 2007 . Retrieved April 18, 2009.
- ↑ Gioia Bruno: Gioia's MySpace Blog . Archived from the original on July 1, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2009.
- ↑ Disney.go.com ( Memento of October 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ newsroom.mohegansun.com
- ↑ Entertainment. In: Daily Business Review. December 5, 2007, archived from the original on June 25, 2009 ; accessed on May 4, 2017 .
- ^ Crystal Entertainment & Filmworks, et al. vs. Jeanette Jurado et al., United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Miami Division, Docket 07-61748-CIV-WJZ
- ^ Crystal Entertainment & Filmworks, et al. vs. Jeanette Jurado et al., United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Miami Division, Docket 08-60125-CIV-MGC
- ↑ Expose 'Reunion with Kelly Moneymaker LA Gay Pride- Point of No Return live . YouTube. June 14, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2009.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: US