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Joe Cerisano, (born March 28, 1951), is an American signer, song writer, producer and President of Outta' the Woods Records, Incorporated. He is often refered to as, "Possibly the most famous anonymous singer in America".

Cerisano is the son of Joe Cerisano, Jr. and Betty Jean Cerisano of Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America.

As a teenager, Cerisano began performing professionally at the age of 14, and sang with a succession of regional bands in the north central West Virginia area, including Elderberry Jak. Joe later moved to New Jersey and then to California. While in California in 1980, Joe and guitarist Earl Slick formed the rock band Silver Condor under the Columbia Records label. Silver Condor had the Top 40 hit "You Could Take My Heart Away", in 1981.

In the mid 1980's Cerisano's music career began to evolve into his becoming one of the most successful studio session singers in the United States. His commercial work in television and radio singing includes spots for Coca-Cola, Chrysler/Plymouth, General Electric, Miller Beer, the United States Army, the United States Navy and numerous others.

During this period, Cerisano also did backing vocals on several albums by Michael Bolton, and he was the singer of the 1986 song "Hands Across America". The video was featured on MTV and still is being played on Pop-Up Video and VH1.

On their Imginos album, Blue Ouster Cult featured Joe as the lead singer for the song, "Frankenstein". He and Gloria Estefan appeared together on the soundtrack of the 1988 musical, Goya; A Life in Song. And In 1998, Cerisano was one of the lead vocalist chosen by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to featured on their album, The Christmas Attic.

Cerisano sang back up for the rock band Korn in November of 1999, as they introduced their new album, Issues. A concert was staged live in New York City at the Apollo Theatre. Broadcast of this event was carried on more than 100 radio stations around the world, as part of the album's global debut.

Many other renowned artists have also called upon Cerisano's talent during the span of his career; Felix Cavaliere, Richie Havens, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson and Jack Scarangella are just a few of them.

Joe Cerisano works in New York City and lives nearby. He has a web site which contains songs, photographs and video that spans his career; including current projects and future plans. It is located at: http://www.cerisano.com/

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