A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Carmen Gioia Bruno
Birthplace:
Bari, Puglia, Italy
Born:
June 11, 1963
Gioia Bruno is an Italian-born American popular music singer, most noted as a member of the vocal group Exposé. Bruno developed a benign tumor on her vocal cords in August of 1990, preventing her from being able to sing, and for the group's third album, she was replaced by Kelly Moneymaker, who continued until Bruno had fully recovered in 1997. After a brief stint with the band Wet, she worked on a solo career, with her first album being released in the spring of 2004. In September 2006, Bruno temporarily stopped touring as a solo artist to rejoin Exposé for a tour, and has continued to perform with the group since, though Kelly Moneymaker continues to make occasional guest appearances as well.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.