Joe Esposito (singer)

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Joe "Bean" Esposito (born May 5, 1948 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American singer .

life and career

From 1977 Joe Esposito was the lead singer of the vocal group Brooklyn Dreams , which mixed rhythm and blues with the disco music popular at the time . Brooklyn Dreams are best known for collaborating with Donna Summer on hits Heaven Knows and Bad Girls .

After Brooklyn Dreams broke up , Joe Esposito worked as a solo artist and was most successful with some movie songs. With the song Lady, Lady, Lady produced by Giorgio Moroder , he could be heard in the film Flashdance . Moroder almost gave him the song Flashdance ... What a Feeling to sing in the film, before Irene Cara decided on this at the last minute, so Esposito had to switch to Lady, Lady, Lady . In the Austrian charts he reached number 7 with his song and was represented there for ten weeks, in Switzerland it reached number 19. The Flashdance album with the film songs received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year . He wrote three of the songs in the film for the dance film Staying Alive (1983). He also became famous for his song You're the Best , which appeared in the film Karate Kid (1984) and was later often covered and, because of its popularity, was used by Donald Trump as an election song in 2015, for example . For the film The Prince from Zamunda (1988) he sang the love ballad Come into My Life in a duet with Laura Branigan .

Joe Esposito recorded three solo albums: the Moroder-produced Solitary Men (1983), the Michael Omartian- produced Joe, Bruce and Second Ave (1987) and most recently the self-produced Treated and Released (1996). Joe Esposito now lives in Las Vegas and has been the lead singer in Doo Wop- influenced vocal group Brooklyn Bridge since 2013 . He is the father of Mike Esposito (* 1981), a former baseball player for the Colorado Rockies .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brooklyn Dreams 2.0: A Conversation with Bruce Sudano and Joe "Bean" Esposito. May 7, 2009, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Joe Esposito - Lady, Lady, Lady - hitparade.ch. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 'You're The Best Around' Singer Joe Esposito Weighs In On Trump Using His Anthem. August 12, 2015, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mike Morsch: The Brooklyn Bridge: Still looking for an echo and continuing a legacy. In: The Vinyl Dialogues Blog. February 26, 2018, Retrieved May 7, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Esposito, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bean (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York