Joe Barrucco
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Joe Barrucco, born in Montreal
Montreal
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, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada
Canada
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, is a music producer and sound designer who has been working behind the scenes creating original audio design and music for the past decade. Joe has had his work nominated for three Juno Awards in 2003 and 2004 for "Best Dance Recording of the Year". In 2005 he produced an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 for Samantha Fox
Samantha Fox
Samantha Karen "Sam" Fox is an English dance-pop singer, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at the age of 16, she began her topless modeling career on Page Three of The Sun, and went on to become a popular pin-up girl...

, entitled, “Angel with an Attitude”. In 2005, Joe Barrucco sound designed and scored
Sheet music
Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs—books, pamphlets, etc.—the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens...

 music for director and writer’s Jeff Barnaby’s film called “From Cherry English”, which was selected to be a part of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2006, Joe Barrucco completed sound and musical production on the theater production entitled
“J.O.B the Hip-Hopera” which earned him a Los Angeles Ovation Award nomination for best sound design. In 2007, Joe Barrucco completed the entire sound design for the film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 entitled “The Colony” written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and produced by Eye Steel Film. “The Colony” won the 2007 ImagineNative Film Festival award for “Best Short Film”. Also, “The Colony” was officially selected to be a part of the “2007 Toronto International Film Festival”. “The Colony” will be broadcast on CBC Television
CBC Television
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 and APTN
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is a Canadian broadcast and cable television network. APTN airs and produces programs made by, for and about Aboriginal Peoples...

.

Joe Barrucco has also produced for Sony-BMG Music (Canada), gold and platinum artist Mario Tremblay also known as MC Mario
MC Mario
Mario Tremblay, better known under his moniker MC Mario, is a French Canadian song producer, disc jockey and radio host from Montreal, Quebec...

. Where he created original tracks and produced remixes for many talented artists.

There is no shortage of talent in the Barrucco family. His sister Christina Barrucco, is a talented Soprano, who pursued her Masters of Performance at the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

 after obtaining a BA in Performance from McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

.

His brother Vince Barrucco, is a radio personality on Virgin 96 Montréal under the alias of Cousin Vinny. Vince used to be Program Director and afternoon drive home host (weekdays 15:00-18:00) at K103.7FM (CKRK-FM
CKRK-FM
CKRK-FM is an English-language Canadian radio station located in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, a First Nations reserve near Montreal, Quebec....

) in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada located on the South Shore of Montreal, and previously a sports personality on The Team 990 and CKGM.

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