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| label = [[Wikipedia:Cypress Records|Cypress]]/[[Wikipedia:A&M Records|A&M Records]]
| associated_acts = [[Wikipedia:Michael Damian|Michael Damian]], Michael Parnell
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<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage" itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" itemid="{{SERVER}}/wiki/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}">Draft: <span itemprop="description">'''Lori Ruso''' (Lori M. Ruso), is a singer and songwriter from the greater Los Angeles, California area. Ruso is known for her 1990 album, ''Show Off'', with two songs landing in the Top 20 on Adult Contemporary charts, leading the warm up band for [[Wikipedia:Michael Damian|Michael Damian]]'s "Rock On" tour, and was the voice of the opening theme-song, "Never Gonna Be the Same Again" for the 1989, Halloween-classic film, ''[[Wikipedia:Teen Witch|Teen Witch]]''.</span></div>
== Early life ==
Ruso was born in Santa Cruz, California, and grew up in California and Arizona, attending High school in Culver City, California, her interest in writing music began as a child, evaluating situations which arose in her life and responding in lyric, this interest evolved from singing for church functions to paid wedding performances. Working her way through her Bachelor of Science in Social Cultural Anthropology, at [[Wikipedia:Santa Clara University:|Santa Clara University]] Ruso was finding work as a backup singer for contemporary artists and doing advertising jingles. Upon graduation, also worked as a teacher in Los Angeles and has completed post-graduate coursework in Elementary and Secondary Education, at [[Wikipedia:UCLA|UCLA]], and collegiate level voice coursework in Vienna, Austria. [https://www.last.fm/music/Lori+Ruso/+wiki]
== Career ==
Grammy Award winning mixer, [[Wikipedia:Studio City Sound| Tom Weir]] and producer [[Wikipedia:Larry Weir|Larry Weir]] encountered Ruso's singing at a church performance. Ruso's musical influences are, Karen Carpenter, Aretha Franklin and Barbra Streisand. Streisand's influence has prevalence in Ruso's work, but there is also a note-hitting precision found in Ruso's a cappella offerings that suggests she also studies Celine Dion. The Weir brothers approached Ruso and included her in their production of the film ''Teen Witch'' (1989) where Ruso opens the film with "Never Gonna Be the Same Again".
* Rock On tour with [[Wikipedia:Michael Damian]]
* Single, "Rolling Ocean" from the album, ''Power of One - The Songs of Johnny Clegg'' (May 18, 2008)
* Single, "Deep" from the album ????? produced by Charbel Khayo (2012)
===''Show Off''===
Ruso's debut album ''Show Off'' (1990), <ref name="Discogs Show Off LP"/> was first released in Spain as ''Something About You'' (1989) under the Vemsa records on vinyl.<ref name="Discog alt title Show Off"/> A 12" EP single, ''Show Off'' was also released in 1990.<ref name="Discogs Show Off EP"/>
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| title5 = Can't Take My Heart
| writer5 = L. Ruso/[[Wikipedia:Studio City Sound|Tom Weir]]
| length5 = 4:13
| title6 = Never Gonna Be the Same Again
;Production<ref name="AllMusic I Believe in Love Again"/>
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