Exposé

Exposé is an American vocal group that originally consisted of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno. The group achieved much of their success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, becoming the first group to have four top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from their debut album, including their 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change".

The group was popular in dance clubs, mainstream Top 40 and adult contemporary charts in the United States. The group actively toured and recorded music from 1985 to 1995. They have released three studio albums, five compilation albums, one video album, 11 music videos, and 17 singles.

Exposé was initially formed in 1984 when Lewis Martineé, a Miami disc jockey and producer, hired Sandra Casañas (Sandeé), Alejandra Lorenzo (Alé), and Laurie Miller as the group's lineup, under the title X-Posed. The next year, the trio recorded "Point of No Return" as a 12-inch vinyl single, which became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. The song helped to introduce a still-popular genre of music that became known as freestyle. A year later, Exposé recorded and released its second club-dance Latin freestyle 12-inch single, titled "Exposed to Love".

During the recording of the group's first studio album Exposure, the personnel of the group changed. They were replaced by Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado and Gioia Bruno.

In February 1987, the new lineup of Exposé released its debut album, Exposure. Notably, unlike many classic girl groups, Exposé alternated lead vocals among its members.

The huge pop/dance hit "Come Go with Me", which reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the group solidified its freestyle music connection. During the summer of 1987, a re-recorded version of "Point of No Return" was released. "Let Me Be the One", a mid-tempo R&B track, garnered significant R&B support and reached #7 on the Hot 100. The group's biggest hit occurred in February 1988 with the #1 Hot 100 single, "Seasons Change". Along with that came a Soul Train Award nomination for Best New Artist, television appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, Showtime at the Apollo, and The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. Exposure remains one of the most successful dance albums ever released, reaching triple platinum status.

The group's second album, What You Don't Know, was released in 1989 and certified gold. Shortly after the success of the singles "What You Don't Know" and "When I Looked at Him", the release of the single "Tell Me Why" made music history for the group when they became the first girl group to have seven back-to-back Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. "Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue" and "Stop, Listen, Look & Think" followed soon afterwards. "Stop, Listen, Look & Think" was also included in the movie The Forbidden Dance, a theatrical film released during the Lambada dance craze of that period.

The popularity of the group also increased overseas to countries such as Japan, where Bruno, Curless and Jurado appeared in a few music video-style television commercials in 1989 for Takara, a Japanese soft drink. The music used in the Japanese commercials was the song "What You Don't Know" with slightly different lyrics in the chorus than the regular version.

With the commercial appeal of Exposé's first two albums, the music-video compilation, Video Exposure, was released on VHS and laser disc formats in 1990. It contained music videos for the first eight singles released by Bruno, Curless and Jurado—from "Come Go with Me" through "Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue."

In August 1990, Bruno began having throat problems, later linked to a benign tumor on her vocal cords, and she lost her voice, and could not sing at all for several years. She was replaced by Kelly Moneymaker in 1992.

After Kelly Moneymaker joined Exposé, the group released its self-titled, third album Exposé, which integrated more adult contemporary material in addition to their established freestyle, house, R&B, pop, and love-ballad repertoire. The album achieved gold status and featured the U.S. Top 40 pop chart with "I Wish the Phone Would Ring" and "I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me", a top-ten pop single which also reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart. Subsequent releases "As Long as I Can Dream" and "In Walked Love" featured Curless in the lead-vocal spotlight. A final, club-marketed single in 1995 saw the release of the group's first remake. "I Specialize in Love".

In 1995, Exposé recorded the Diane Warren-penned song "I'll Say Good-Bye for the Two of Us", which appeared on the soundtrack of the film Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home.

Toward the end of 1995, the group was dropped from their label, Arista, and the members disbanded at the beginning of 1996 to pursue their own projects. However, over time, two other variations of greatest hits collections have been released as well as a collection of popular remixes from the group's 12-inch singles, including the extended version of "Point of No Return."

After a long hiatus, the lineup of Curless, Jurado, and Moneymaker, reunited briefly for a reunion concert in Paso Robles, California in 2003. Since 2006, Exposé continues to tour with the lineup of Curless, Jurado, and Bruno. They recorded a 2011 version of their hit "Point Of No Return". The group released a single for Christmas called "I Believe In Christmas (Like It Use To Be)" in December 2011.