Catégories :
Panier 0

Votre panier est vide

John Tesh

John Tesh became famous as a television personality before returning to music as a full-time occupation in addition to his work with his church. John's two older sisters had musical talent, and his father, an executive with Hanes in New York, was a Minister of Sunday School with the Methodist Church. He moved up to a piano teacher who was associated with the Juilliard, and as a high school student was a member of the New York State Symphonic Orchestra and played organ in a rock band. In addition, he was active in sports, winning letters in three varsity sports. He continued playing in student symphony orchestras as he attended North Carolina State University, graduating in 1975 with a degree in communications. The telegenic Tesh (tall, blond, square-jawed, and with a resonant speaking voice) took jobs at local television stations in Nashville, Tennessee; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Orlando, Florida, intending the income from this work to enable him to continue his work in music, including his composition. At the age of 23, he took a position in the news department of WCBS-TV, the local television station in New York City owned by the CBS network. At the time, he was its youngest reporter. In that capacity, he won two local Emmy awards and an Associated Press Award for investigative journalism. He moved over to CBS Sports in 1981. Meanwhile he continued playing music, working in one or another local New York venue practically every weekend. In 1982, CBS assigned him as a reporter on its coverage of the Tour de France bicycle race, and accepted his offer to let him write underscoring music for the broadcasts. Viewers wrote the network, asking where they could buy a tape of it. Tesh, who had retained the copyright to the music, began selling cassettes of it by mail order, selling 30,000 copies, from his garage. He continued to write music for television sports presentations, including the theme for the 1983 Pan-American Games, which won an Emmy for Best Musical Composition. In 1986, Tesh accepted the highly visible position of co-host of the nationally syndicated U.S. TV program Entertainment Tonight (ET). Quickly, his serious screen presence helped the program gain a degree of journalistic respectability that it had previously lacked, having originally been perceived as a mere promotional and gossip program. He arranged his schedule so that he had more opportunity to compose and perform and wrote several other TV themes (including "Roundball Rock," NBC's basketball signature music). He began releasing original songs on the Private Music label, hitting best-seller charts and winning a New York Music Award for Best Jazz Album and Best Instrumental Composer. He composed music for coverage of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He made a spectacular television debut as a performing musician on the PBS fundraising program Live at Red Rocks. In 1992, he formed GTS Records (named after his stepson Gib, himself, and his wife, the actress Connie Selleca); it is now GTSP Records, reflecting the birth of their child Prima, and is half-owned by Universal Music Group. In 1996, he resigned from ET to work on his music full-time. His music is a mixture of pop, and jazz with scoring for full orchestra. At the turn of the twenty-first century, he was expanding his music in various directions: The album John Tesh: One World uses several world ethnic music influences. Pure Hymns is a collection of religious music reflecting his strong Christian faith as a member of Beth Ariel Fellowship, a Messianic congregation in California, and he has released a CD of Classical Music for a Stress-Free World.
© TiVo
Écoutez

Artistes similaires

Liz Story
3rd Force
Mars Lasar
Mannheim Steamroller
Fiona Joy Hawkins
Wouter Kellerman
John St. John
David Arkenstone
Patrick O'Hearn
Kitaro
Kenny G
Bryan Savage
Philip Aaberg
Jim Brickman
George Winston
Richard Clayderman
David Lanz
Yanni
Marti Pellow
Spencer Brewer
Jim Chappell
Synergy
Giovanni Allevi
Vincent Ingala
Andrea Bocelli

Discographie

44 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes

1 2 3
1 2 3

Mes favoris

Cet élément a bien été <span>ajouté / retiré</span> de vos favoris.

Trier et filtrer les albums