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BLP sources|date=August 2009Infobox musical artist| name = John Tesh| image =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = John Frank Tesh| birth_date = birth date and age|mf=yes|1952|7|9| origin = Garden City, New York , United States | instrument = Piano Keyboard instrument|Keyboards | genre = New age music|New Age Pop music|Pop Contemporary Christian music|Contemporary Christian Smooth Jazz | occupation = Composer Musician|Recording artist Radio host News anchor Sportscaster | years_active = 1986present| label =| associated_acts = Yanni Connie Sellecca James Ingram | website = http://www.tesh.com/ Tesh.com John Frank Tesh (born July 9, 1952) is an United States|American pianist and composer of pop music, as well as a radio host and television presenter . His 10-year-old 'Intelligence for Your Life Radio Show' reaches 14.2 Million listeners/week, and is syndicated by Teshmedia on 400 stations in US, Canada, and the UK. Tesh has won six music Emmys, has four gold albums, two Grammy nominations, and an Associated Press award for investigative journalism. Tesh has sold over eight million records. His live concerts have raised more than $20 million for PBS. His NBC Basketball Theme has been hailed as one of the top three sports themes of all time. He is also known as the longtime co-host of the television program Entertainment Tonight . He has previously worked as a sportscaster for the Olympic Games , a news anchor and a reporter .
Biography
Early years
Tesh was born in Garden City, New York , on Long Island , and graduated from Garden City High School (New York)|Garden City High School in 1970. Playing piano and trumpet from the age of 6, he studied with teachers from The Juilliard School and was named to the New York State Symphonic Orchestra in high school, while also playing the organ (music)|organ in a rock band. http://lyrics.crossmap.com/artist/tesh-john.htm Bio at Crossmap.com Tesh studied communication studies|communications and music at North Carolina State University . While in the area, Tesh worked as a news anchor at WTVD in Durham, North Carolina . Tesh went to Orlando, Florida , to take a television position at WFTV .
Tesh has been married to actress Connie Sellecca since 1992. They have one daughter together named Prima.
Entertainment Tonight and television career
His television career included a stint as a news anchor and reporter at WSMV-TV|WSM-TV in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1970s, where he often covered the same stories as Oprah Winfrey , who worked at WTVF-TV|a competing Nashville station . He shuffled from Nashville to Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh , to Orlando, Florida|Orlando , and finally to New York's WCBS-TV , where, at age 23, he was their youngest reporter. He later hosted the television show Entertainment Tonight from 1986 to 1996.
Tesh also served as a sportscaster for events such as the Tour de France bicycle race from 1983 through 1986 (Tesh has the distinction of being the anchor for the first American broadcast of this event), and gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics . He also provided coverage of numerous dog shows from 1995-1999.
Tesh hosted the "One on One with John Tesh" talk show in 1991-92 on NBC daytime, and co-hosted the show John & Leeza with fellow Entertainment Tonight personality Leeza Gibbons in the 1990s.
Tesh appeared in " The Icarus Factor ," an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , playing a Klingon warrior.
Radio personality Howard Stern has dubbed Tesh "Blonde Frankenstein" for his height, lean build, and blonde locks.
Musical career
In 1987, Yanni was putting together his first touring band to promote his album Out of Silence , as well as selections from Keys to Imagination . Being good friends, Tesh asked Yanni if he could join the band as keyboardist along with Giovanna Joyce Imbesi|Joyce Imbesi and drummer Charlie Adams (drummer)|Charlie Adams , as he'd never been onstage for a live performance, and he needed the experience. Despite already having a full time job with Entertainment Tonight , and the long hours of rehearsal for the band, he did very well, although he did only one tour with Yanni, playing in about 12 shows, including the " Chameleon Days|1988 Concert Series ," before being replaced by Bradley Joseph . Later, Yanni helped Tesh get his first recording contract with Private Music .cite book | last = Yanni | coauthors = Rensin, David| title = Yanni in Words| publisher = Miramax Books | year = 2002| pages = 123, 202| isbn = 1-4013-5194-8 | accessdate =2007-04-03
In the 1990s, John Tesh was credited with the theme music to '' Bobby's World , hosted by Howie Mandel, and the NBA on NBC theme, known as " Roundball Rock ." Tesh composed the NBA on NBC theme after an idea hit him while traveling. In order to recall his idea at a later juncture, Tesh recorded the initial beat on his answering machine, leaving a message for himself. The theme was used for the NBA on NBC before the network stopped carrying NBA games following the 2001-02 NBA season|2001-02 season , though NBC would revive the theme for its basketball coverage during the 2008 Summer Olympics .
In August 1994, John performed at the majestic 250 million year old outdoor Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado for his first Live at Red Rocks concert. The four-time Emmy Award-winning Tesh performed with conductor John Bisharat and the 70-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra. The concert featured Tesh playing grand piano, Charlie Bisharat playing electric violin, and Everette Harp playing alto saxophone. Also featured were Olympic gold medal-gymnasts Nadia Comaneci (1976) and Bart Conner (1984) performing gymnastic routines specially-choreographed to Tesh's music.
After Tesh left his 10-year job as co-host for Entertainment Tonight in 1996, he turned to his career as a contemporary keyboardist. This led to him starting The John Tesh Radio Show in 2003.
In 2008, he put out a piano gospel dance DVD called "Alive: Music & Dance." It combines Tesh's music, big gospel choirs, and hip-hop dance. http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/14/154536.shtml John Tesh Finds His Groove. NewsMax.com, March 15, 2007.
John Tesh Radio Show
Tesh currently has a nationally-syndicated radio show called the John Tesh Radio Show , which typically airs on Adult Contemporary and Classic Hits radio stations, which plays Teen-oriented Soft rock (music, or music selected by an affiliate station themselves), interspersed with various factoid s and other information Tesh considers useful to listeners, often with topics such as health and well-being. These factoids are called "Intelligence for Your Life." It is played on radio stations across the United States and Canada. "This show was created for my wife, (actress Connie Sellecca )," he says. "She's one of those people where, you look at her side of the bed (and see) seven issues of Prevention magazine and five months of Oprah magazine . . . (she) never has time to read any of that stuff . . . I feel there's enough entertainment there - nobody needs to know the latest in the trial of Anna Nicole Smith from us, or who the celebrity birthdays are. So I said, Let's just do something that moves people forward in their life, and we'll do the work for them.'" According to Tesh, the show now airs on about 250 stations nationwide, primarily on adult contemporary music stations, but is carried on some classic hits stations as well; select pieces of "Intelligence for Your Life" are broken up and distributed in short form to other radio stations (including talk radio formats) as well, for use on morning shows.
The show was originally syndicated by Westwood One under the name On the Air with John Tesh , albeit with a slightly-different format. It is currently self-syndicated.
Awards
In 2007, Tesh won the Syndicated Personality/Show of the Year award by Radio & Records magazine for his radio show. Other finalists included Delilah Rene|Delilah , Blair Garner , Steve Harvey , Kidd Kraddick , and The Lia Show .cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=2007 Industry Achievement Awards | date=September 28, 2008 | publisher= | url = http://www.radioandrecords.com/Conventions/con2007/awards/indexFinal.asp | work =Radio and Records Tesh was nominated in 2003 for the Grammy for "Best Pop Instrumental Album" for Power of Love . John has also earned three gold albums, six Emmys for his sports themes, and a Keyboard Magazine Award.cite web|url= http://www.tesh.com/ittrium/visit? path=A1x97x1y1xa5x1x76y1x3e70x1x65y1x40fx1x65 |title=About John |accessdate=2008-04-27 |work=Official John Tesh Website
Discography
(1987) Music from the Tour de France, Vol. I - Tesh Music BMI
(1988) A Thousand Summers
(1988) Tour de France - Private Music
(1989) Garden City - Cypress
(1989) You Break It - Atlantic Records
(1990) Tour de France - The Early Years - Private Music
(1992) A Romantic Christmas - Decca Records
(1992) Ironman Triathlon - GTSP
(1992) The Games - GTSP
(1993) Monterey Nights - Decca Records
(1994) A Family Christmas - Decca Records
(1994) Sax by the Fire - Decca Records
(1994) Winter Song - Decca Records
(1995) Music in the Key of Love - GTSP
(1995) Backstage with John Tesh - Digital Entertainment
(1995) Live at Red Rocks - Decca Records
(1995) Sax on the Beach - Decca Records
(1995) Anthology
(1996) Discovery - Decca Records
(1996) Choirs of Christmas , featuring Rock Theatre , Paulist Boy Choristers of California, Encore Children's Chorus - GTSP
(1997) Avalon - Decca Records
(1997) Sax All Night - Decca Records
(1998) Grand Passion - Decca Records
(1998) Guitar by the Fire - Decca Records
(1998) Songs from the Road - BMG Special Products
(1998) Pure Movies - GTSP
(1999) One World (John Tesh album)|One World - Decca Records
(1999) John Tesh & Friends - Columbia River
(1999) One Day - Unison
(2000) Pure Movies, Vol. 2 - Garden City Music
(2000) Pure Hymns - Faith M.D.
(2001) Classical Music for an Intimate Mood - Garden City Music
(2001) Pure Orchestra - Garden City Music
(2001) Classical Music for a Stress-Free World - Garden City
(2001) Pure Gospel - Faith M.D.
(2001) Classical Music for Babies (And Their Moms), Vol. 1 - Garden City
(2001) Classical Music for Babies (And Their Moms), Vol. 2 - Garden City
(2001) Classical Music for a Prayerful Mood - Faith M.D.
(2002) The Power of Love - Garden City Music
(2002) Christmas Worship - Word Records|Word Entertainment
(2002) A Deeper Faith - Garden City
(2003) Worship Collection: Awesome God - Garden City Music
(2003) A Deeper Faith, Vol. 2 - Garden City Music
(2004) Worship at Red Rocks (live) - Garden City Music
God of Wonders - Word Records|Word Entertainment
Drive Time Intelligence CD
Grand Piano Christmas
Heart of the Sunrise
John Tesh - Romantic Christmas Collection
John Tesh - Ultimate Christmas Collection
The Power of Prayer and Worship
Ultimate Love Song Collection
Victory
Videography
John Tesh - Monterey Nights
John Tesh - Live at Red Rocks
John Tesh - The Avalon Concert
John Tesh - One World
John Tesh - Christmas in Positano
John Tesh - Alive: Music & Dance
References
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External links
http://www.tesh.com/ Official site
http://facebook.com/JohnTesh John Tesh's FACEBOOK PAGE
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http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll? p=avg& sql=2:113889~T2 John Tesh at Allmovie
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