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August 28, 2005

Nick Bruno Biography

(additional info contributed by Cliff Cerce)

Nick Bruno
Nick Bruno was a key contributing member of several groups during in the 1960s and 1970s. As a teen, he was a member of the Keystone Quartet with Richard Sterban. He and Sterban moved to the Eastman Quartet in the mid-1960s, but later returned to the Keystone Quartet. Future Oak Ridge Boys member Joe Bonsall and future Imperials member David Will would get their first full time singing jobs with the Keystone Quartet. Bruno began producing, arranging and working as a session piano player at Baldwin Sound Productions when the Keystone Quartet was based in Harrisburg, PA in the late 1960s.

He traveled with the Stamps for a year or so during their early Elvis years before joining the Kingsmen in 1972. Later, Bruno produced the novelty song “Excuses” for the Kingsmen. The song held the number one position on the Singing News chart for an unprecedented ten months in 1981-82. Bruno would produce another mega-hit for a former Kingsmen Quartet member not long after the success of "Excuses." The song was “Beulah Land” and the singer was Squire Parsons.

Bruno worked in Branson, MO for five years producing live shows for some of the top secular acts there. He later returned to Nashville, TN where he produced recordings that helped elevate artists like Quinton Mills and the Booth Brothers in the eyes of Southern Gospel fans.

In recent years, Bruno has become a mentor of sorts to many young artists. He writes a regular article for Sogospelnews.com that typically focuses on the business side of the industry. He also has written a book about the industry called The Gospel Music Truth. Meanwhile, Bruno has continued to record and produce. His most recent venture is a record label called Song Garden that is designed for up-and-coming Southern Gospel artists.

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