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[0:00] Robert Bannon: Are you ready? It's The Roundtable with me, Robert Bannon.

[0:09] Robert Bannon: Well everybody, listen to me. I was born in 1983, okay? I was in New Jersey, the home of freestyle dance music, the home of music that lives eternally. These three ladies can sing. They can make you dance. They sing in harmony. I'd be fired because I can't. They are ready to make you get up on your feet. They're on the road. They're coming to Detroit. I love the soundboard. Here it is. 2,000 seats, not a bad seat in the place. So it's intimate. It's beautiful. They have a crowd. They have good drinks. They have a little potato chip moment. You have a casino outside. Come and you bring a date night. Bring your wife, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your husband, whomever. Bring your family. They're going to get on stage.

You get $5 to play in the casino when the night's over. They're going to come and sing their faces off. And you get, like, this is date night special. If you come see them, wherever they are in the world, you need to see Exposé, number one hits, dozens of hit classics. They're going to make you dance. They're going to make you cry. And I will never get over you being here with me. Welcome to Exposé.

[1:11] Jeanette Jurado: Hi, thank you. Wow, what an introduction. Thank you.

[1:16] Robert Bannon: Can we go around? Can you, you called yourself Sweaty G, but that is not her name. Can we go around? Can we get your name? Can we get your names, please? And let us introduce ourselves for us all here.

[1:26] Gioia Bruno: Sure, I'll start first. My name is Gioia Bruno. I'm also from New Jersey, 20 minutes away from Mr. Man in here. But I'm living in Florida right now. I've been singing with the girls for a long time. I'm Italian. I've got a dog named Lucy, a cat named Mia, but mostly a daughter named Bria. Oh, and I, I sing.

[1:53] Robert Bannon: And you sing. I love that the pets got, the pets got the shout out for the dog.

[2:02] Gioia Bruno: She expects that. She knew that was going to happen.

[2:04] Robert Bannon: Who wants to go next? Thank you. Who wants to go next?

[2:07] Jeanette Jurado: I just want to say, Gioia, when you look at her phone, she has, she shows you pictures of the dog all the time. And I'm like, can we see the kid? Can we see Brianna, please? My name is Jeanette Jurado from Los Angeles, California. And yeah, I've been singing with these girls since the first album back in 1980. What was that? 87? 86? I don't even remember. I started recording in 87 because I got there in June of 86. Around maybe the end of 86, beginning 87.

[2:42] Anne Curless: And Anne, last but not least, go ahead. Give it to us.

[2:46] Jeanette Jurado: I'm listening to all of this. Yeah. 1986, ladies. That's why we've been together for 40 years.

[2:55] Anne Curless: Yes.

[2:57] Jeanette Jurado: What? Don't do the math. Don't do the math.

[3:00] Anne Curless: But it's, it's something to be proud of, not to shy away from. Anyway, my name is Anne, and I live, well, I'm originally from Miami Beach, Florida, which is where I met these lovely women, and we became the group Exposé. Yeah, just a few years ago. And now I live in New York, outside of the city. So yeah, it's great to be here, Robert. Love meeting you.

[3:22] Robert Bannon: No, I love meeting you all. I literally have been dancing and singing to your music. And when I saw that you were coming, I'm like, oh no, we all, we got to get my sister-in-law and my brother-in-law and my husband and the family. And we're going to make it, I'm too old and dusty to go to the club, but I can go to a concert. And I can make it a club. And I can have a good old time with you all. Tell me.

[3:44] Anne Curless: Old and dusty, my booty, because let me tell you something. When I saw you, I was just like, he looks like he just came from the club. Like you look like you're ready to go to the club.

[3:55] Robert Bannon: You got to be like, I say I'm going to call out 20. God bless your heart. Well, that's how old you are. You can't be Exposé. You look freaking great. You got some skills.

[4:14] Robert Bannon: The point is, all right. So Gioia, if I'm coming to see your show, what am I going to see? What is an Exposé show like in 2026?

[4:24] Gioia Bruno: Oh, in 2026. Let's see. Well, I don't know. I just think more and more when we're on stage. And after all the years we've been together, you feel the camaraderie and the chemistry and the connection between the three of us, which just like, it's just goes out into that audience. We are so grateful to be together and to be on that stage. And as Ann always says, what do you say, Annie? The best seat in the house.

[4:54] Anne Curless: That's right. Because we get to just really experience the excitement that these incredible friends, fans, comrades and up and down have for us. There's a troller here and there. Who cares? Because we have all we've got the whole world backing us up, showing up, talking good and loving this music. I mean, it is just the greatest gift. I can't, I'm starting to get all chills and it is freaking 100 degrees in here. So yeah, it's a real, it's the real deal. It's a real feeling and a blessing. It sure is.

[5:28] Robert Bannon: What's funny, Jeanette, is that this group, you guys are Exposé. So you guys have been singing together, like you said, for all these years. Were you guys, did you know each other before? Were you put together? How did the three of you first meet?

[5:45] Jeanette Jurado: We did not know each other before and we were put together. We really were. And yeah, it was very, very easy. And at the same time, a little difficult because Gioia and Annie and myself had all been singing in bands for quite a few years at this point. And we were all the lead singers of those groups. So to put us together, sharing the lead, we're like, oh, okay, this is going to get a little, you know, we're all in our younger 20s. And it was fun because we're such young girls and really just had all of our lives ahead of us. It was a little difficult sometimes, but most of the time, just fun, just fun. All these things that we experienced together, you know, first, well, it was my first time in the recording studio.

I don't know about them. But, you know, first going out on touring, first time on the bus, first making videos, first, you know, top 40 record. I mean, it happened so fast once we started together. I think we got together in August of 87. I get all my dates mixed up. Was it 87 or 86, Annie?

[7:00] Anne Curless: 86.

[7:02] Jeanette Jurado: Well, 86. And then by, oh, that's right, because on my 21st birthday, our song came out in November of that same year. So it was very fast the way it happened. And since then, we've become dear friends and have shared so much together in life. So much.

[7:21] Anne Curless: The history. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

[7:24] Jeanette Jurado: No, no, no, it's okay. But, you know, you think if somebody would have told me that I'd be still doing this at my age, with the same women, I would have been like, not never gonna happen. But it did. And it's so wonderful. And we have built up this amazing relationship. I mean, families and children and parents and losses, people in the family. I mean, we've been through it this the three of us have been through it. And I love that we're still together. And I can't imagine doing this without them.

[7:50] Robert Bannon: That's what I love. Annie, when you talk about the history and what happened. So you guys got together in 86. And then March 2 of 1987, the album Exposure came out, and it became two time platinum. It shot out like a cannon in 89 What You Don't Know comes out. Albums, gold albums, number one hit albums, platinum albums, singles on the radio, signed to Arista Records in the 80s and 90s in the height of the Whitney's and the Barry's and etc, etc, etc. What's it feel like, Annie, when it actually hits? Is it scary? Is it exciting? What did it feel like to be in the middle of this?

[8:32] Anne Curless: Yeah, that's a good question. Thank you. You have all your stats. Yeah. I mean, I can learn some things from you.

[8:43] Anne Curless: You know, it was really interesting. I think the beginning was a whirlwind for all of us. We had no idea that the first album was going to take off like it did. And we were in really doing back to back shows. The first year, which is 1987, we were on tour with Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. And I know, we love we still love her and we do a lot of shows with her. And we were her opening act. And, you know, we were kind of riding this wave and living in tour buses. And then soon after that, when our song started to hit, we were the headliner. And I think there was that like epiphany of, oh, we can actually pull an audience just by ourselves. So it was fantastic. I mean, it was all of our first experiences being on the road and living out of suitcases and in hotels and on tour buses.

And and you're right, it went on after that, you know, with the second album, too. So, you know, living it was an experience and it was ups and downs, Robert. It wasn't you know, this is I say that it's a bittersweet experience. Sometimes there are difficulties throughout that. But but yeah, reflecting it was a once in a lifetime opportunity for us. And I guess it still is just pretty crazy.

[10:08] Jeanette Jurado: I've got a daughter comment. So when Seasons Change went to number one, we remember we didn't I don't know if I knew about it, but we came back from Japan or we were going no. And then we found out it was number one and all that stuff. Yeah. Isn't that when I got pregnant?

[10:28] Anne Curless: Probably around that. You don't say I wasn't exactly there at the moment, but we'll take your word for it. So I missed it. But, you know, I remember on the bus taking them to the back room and saying, guys, you were pregnant. So you were close. You're close, but not that close. They weren't physically there. That's it. No, no, no. But it was just a wicked, weird, crazy thing. And then that's why I said aunties, because they both became aunties to my beautiful daughter, Brianna DeGioia. And yeah. So there there's your Brianna moment. I love that.

[11:09] Gioia Bruno: I love it. I love it. Joya, when you get on stage now and sing Seasons Change and that's number one hit song that has was number one for weeks and weeks. What's it like?

[11:14] Gioia Bruno: OK, so Jeanette always says, OK, doesn't always say, but she says, so what were you doing when this song came out? And I'm like, oh, well, exactly. Oh, my God. Is it a dream for it to be an artist that gets on stage where people literally sing every single song? You are their childhood. You are their romantic first boyfriend, first girlfriend, roller skating rink like you are the music they grew up to and love as an adult. It's pretty crazy, actually, you know, because I I mean, it's just we're the we're the artists. We're Exposé. So I don't and I think all of us are very, very low key and just like, wow, we get to do this. This is so cool. But I think of me going to see acts or concerts of artists that I grew up with and I love it.

I'm singing. I'm sitting in the audience and I'm singing every word. And I just think how lucky are we that we get to go and do that? You know, yes, the audience sings along with almost every single song. And when we perform live with our band, which we will be doing in Michigan, the best part for me is being able to do because it's not a track. It's not like really, really fast things. We're doing our songs. You will hear Gioia sing songs that you normally don't get to hear her sing or Annie or myself. And I love presenting the full songs for the audience. And they are. I mean, we receive obviously a lot of compliments, have a wonderful band. But I love doing that full show and being able to sing the full songs and really being able to present our music that we've recorded throughout the years with this audience. And to me, that's just the most fun out of everything.

[13:01] Robert Bannon: Oh, yes. Listen, when you get your tickets, everybody, the 19th, when you come to this show, I'll see you there. When you come to the show, you are going to see the band, the girls, the full show. They are the show. I know, Annie, sometimes people do. There's a lot of gigs that are packaged together and you got to see a lot of nostalgia. But this is the Exposé, a deep dive. You're going to do the songs and sing. As Annie says, the Exposé experience, right?

[13:26] Anne Curless: Yes.

[13:31] Gioia Bruno: Yeah. Right. I like the deep dive, though.

[13:32] Robert Bannon: Welcome to The Roundtable! Today, we have the incredible trio Exposé with us, and we're diving into their journey and the impact they've had on pop music.

[14:01] Robert Bannon: Exposé is known for their amazing sound and energy that defined the late '80s and early '90s. It's such a pleasure to have you all here.

[14:21] Robert Bannon: Let's start with your debut album, "Exposure." It was a massive success, making Billboard history. How did that feel at the time?

[14:41] Robert Bannon: I mean, being the first group to score four Top 10 hits from a debut album is no small feat!

[15:01] Robert Bannon: What was the experience like for you as a group during that time?

[15:21] Robert Bannon: I can only imagine the excitement and pressure that came with that level of success.

[15:49] Robert Bannon: And here you are, decades later, still performing together. What does it mean to you to still share the stage after all these years?

[16:17] Robert Bannon: Your bond and voices have clearly endured.

[16:37] Robert Bannon: How have you seen your music evolve over the years?

[16:57] Robert Bannon: It's fascinating to see how artists adapt and grow in the music business.

[17:17] Robert Bannon: What do you think has been the key to your longevity in the industry?

[17:37] Robert Bannon: And how do you keep that Exposé energy alive in your performances today?

[17:57] Robert Bannon: I know your fans are thrilled to see you still bringing that energy to the stage.

[18:17] Robert Bannon: Can you share some memorable moments from your performances?

[18:37] Robert Bannon: It's always great to hear about those special connections with your audience.

[18:57] Robert Bannon: And what can fans expect from your upcoming show at Sound Board in Detroit?

[19:17] Robert Bannon: I’m sure it’s going to be an unforgettable night!

[19:37] Robert Bannon: For those who may not know, what are some of your biggest hits that fans can look forward to?

[19:57] Robert Bannon: It's incredible how your music has remained a part of the soundtrack of so many lives.

[20:25] Robert Bannon: Let’s talk about the legacy you’ve created together. How do you feel about the impact you've had on pop music?

[20:45] Robert Bannon: It must be rewarding to see how your music continues to resonate with new generations.

[21:05] Robert Bannon: What advice would you give to young artists trying to make their mark today?

[21:25] Robert Bannon: The industry has changed so much since you started.

[21:45] Robert Bannon: How do you navigate those changes while staying true to yourselves?

[22:05] Robert Bannon: It’s all about finding that balance, isn’t it?

[22:25] Robert Bannon: I’m excited to hear more about your journey and what’s next for Exposé.

[22:45] Robert Bannon: Thank you for being here and sharing your story with us!

[23:05] Robert Bannon: Let’s keep the conversation going and dive deeper into your experiences.

[23:25] Robert Bannon: I know our listeners are eager to learn more!

[23:45] Robert Bannon: So, what’s next on the horizon for Exposé?

[24:05] Robert Bannon: I can’t wait to see what you all have planned!

[24:25] Robert Bannon: Thank you again for joining me today.

[24:45] Robert Bannon: It’s been a pleasure having you on The Roundtable!

[25:05] Robert Bannon: Let’s wrap up with a final thought from each of you about what Exposé means to you today.

[25:25] Robert Bannon: I’m sure it’s a powerful sentiment after all these years.

[25:45] Robert Bannon: Thank you to everyone listening, and make sure to catch Exposé live!

[26:05] Robert Bannon: Until next time, keep celebrating the music that brings us all together.

[26:25] Robert Bannon: Take care, everyone!

[26:45] Robert Bannon: See you at the next show!