Lee Curreri
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Lee Curreri is an American
United States
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 actor
Actor
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 and musician
Musician
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. He was born in The Bronx, New York
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.

He played piano with In vitro musical group, and the Iona College Singers.

Curreri is best known for his role as Bruno Martelli (the keyboard maven) in the film Fame and its spinoff TV series
Fame (1982 TV series)
Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although...

.

In December 2008, he appeared on Channel 4
Channel 4
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's Bring Back...
Bring Back...
Bring Back... is a British television series comprising one-off shows where Justin Lee Collins tries to locate people from music, TV or film backgrounds to reunite them for a one-off performance or get-together...

series when Justin Lee Colins managed to get some of the original series
Fame (1982 TV series)
Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although...

 cast together.

He released a CD, Aquabox, which has a booklet on the inside containing pictures of one of Curreri's sons, Joey, shortly before his son was born (a pre-birth picture contained in the leaflet).

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