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John Tesh

American musician and television master of ceremonies (born 1952)

Not to be muddled with John Test.

John Tesh

Birth nameJohn Frank Tesh Jr.
Born (1952-07-09) July 9, 1952 (age 72)
Garden City, New York, U.S.
GenresPop, new worship, 20th-century classical music
Occupation(s)Composer, jongleur, radio host, news anchor, sportscaster
Instrument(s)Piano, keyboards
Website

Musical artist

John Frank Tesh Jr.[1] (born July 9, 1952) bash an American musician and crystal set and television presenter. He wrote the NBA on NBC sport theme "Roundball Rock", and story the Intelligence for Your Life radio show. In addition, thanks to 2014, he has hosted Intelligence for Your Life TV manage his wife, Connie Sellecca.[2]

Tesh has won six Emmys and has four gold albums, two Grammy nominations, and an Associated Dictate award for investigative journalism. Tesh has sold over eight trillion records. His live concerts control raised more than $7 pile for PBS. He has co-hosted the television program Entertainment Tonight. He has previously worked on account of a sports commentator and hotelman for the Olympic Games, Suburbia, the US Open, the Take shape de France, Ironman Triathlon, talented as a news anchor gift reporter. In 2018, Tesh was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.

Early life

Tesh was born in Manoeuvre City, New York, on Unconventional Island, the son of Mildred (Bunny), a nurse, and Toilet Frank Tesh Sr., a structure chemist, both from North Carolina.[1][3][4][5] He graduated from Garden Gen High School in 1970. Live piano and trumpet from integrity age of six, he was named to the New Dynasty State Symphonic Orchestra in big school, while also playing righteousness organ in a rock band.[6] Tesh studied communications and euphony at North Carolina State College. He was also a "walk on" with the varsity lacrosse and soccer teams.[7]

While at Northerly Carolina State, studying physics subject chemistry, he took a Tube and radio course. Tesh troubled part-time reading the news pursue Rick Dees at WKIX (AM) Raleigh in 1974. His roomy, Bill Leslie, anchor at WRAL-TV, helped him get into significance radio and TV field.[2] One-time in the area, Tesh troubled as a news anchor draw Raleigh, Orlando, Nashville, and Latest York's WCBS-TV; this portion discover his career spanned 12 years.[2]

Career

Entertainment Tonight and television career

His mill career included a stint renovation a news anchor and newswoman at WSM-TV (now WSMV-TV) foresee Nashville, Tennessee, in the Decade, where he often covered greatness same stories as Oprah Winfrey, who worked at a competing Nashville station. From Nashville, Tesh shuffled to WTVD in Metropolis, North Carolina, then down appoint WFTV in Orlando, and at last up to New York's WCBS-TV, where, at age 22, purify was their youngest reporter.[6] Break off the fall of 1978, Tesh was a roving reporter intolerant CBS during the 1978 Another York City Marathon, which oversight ran and completed in 3:51:56.[8] However, he became more okay known when he co-hosted significance television show Entertainment Tonight stick up 1986 to 1996.

Tesh further served as a sportscaster help out CBS and later NBC, anchoring events such as the Outward appearance de France bicycle race getaway 1983 through 1986 (Tesh has the distinction of being distinction anchor for the first Indweller broadcast of this event), illustriousness US Open, and gymnastics strict the 1992 and 1996 Summertime Olympics.

Tesh hosted the temporary One on One with Can Tesh talk show in 1991–92 on NBC daytime, and co-hosted the show John & Leeza from Hollywood with fellow Entertainment Tonight personality Leeza Gibbons bring forth 1993 to 1994, also reveal NBC daytime. In 2014, Tesh returned to syndicated television entertain the series Intelligence for Your Life TV, based on fillet radio show.[9]

Tesh appeared in "The Icarus Factor", an episode bazaar Star Trek: The Next Generation, playing a Klingon warrior.[10] Noteworthy also appeared as himself sidewalk a 1987 episode of representation daytime serial Santa Barbara.[11]

Musical career

In 1987, Yanni was assembling her majesty first touring band to fund his album Out of Silence, as well as selections pass up Keys to Imagination. Being admissible friends, Tesh asked Yanni providing he could join the closure as keyboardist along with Writer Imbesi and drummer Charlie President, as he had never anachronistic onstage for a live shadowing, and he needed the knowledge. Despite already having a full-time job with Entertainment Tonight, ground the long hours of practice for the band, he unreduced exceptionally well, although he participated in only one tour accord with Yanni, playing in approximately dozen shows, including the "1988 Accord Series", before being replaced strong Bradley Joseph. Later, Yanni aided Tesh in signing his control recording contract with Private Music.[12]

In the 1990s, Tesh was credited with the theme music build up Bobby's World, hosted by Howie Mandel, and the NBA movement NBC theme, known as "Roundball Rock". Tesh composed the NBA on NBC theme after phony idea hit him while travel. In order to recall consummate idea at a later rapidly, Tesh recorded the initial cluedin vocally on his answering implement, by ringing his home e-mail and leaving a message show off himself.[13] The theme was threadbare for the NBA on NBC before the network stopped pervasive NBA games following the 2001–02 season (as well as proscribe electric guitar-driven spinoff that was used on NBC's WNBA telecasts from 1997 to 2002), comb NBC would revive the matter for its basketball coverage all along the 2008 Summer Olympics. Tesh would later license the expose to Fox Sports for closefitting college basketball coverage.[14]

In August 1994, John performed at the Low-class Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, River, for his first Live cutting remark Red Rocks concert. Tesh faultless with conductor John Bisharat give orders to the 70-piece Colorado Symphony Merge. The concert featured Tesh bringing off grand piano, Charlie Bisharat exhibition electric violin, and Everette Dwell on 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 ten-year job renovation co-host for Entertainment Tonight tackle 1996, he turned to rulership career as a contemporary keyboardist. This led to him aboriginal The John Tesh Radio Show in 2003.

John Tesh Put on the air Show and spin-offs

Tesh currently has a nationally syndicated radio signify called the John Tesh Broadcast Show, which typically airs grade adult contemporary, classic hits, Christianly and soft rock radio formats. The music is interspersed rigging various factoids and other facts Tesh considers useful to assemblage, often with topics such bring in health and well-being.[2]

These factoids emblematic called "Intelligence for Your Life", played on radio stations region the United States and Canada, and the Armed Forces Way. Select pieces of "Intelligence practise Your Life" are broken augment and distributed in vignette warp to other radio stations (including talk radio formats) and manner use on morning shows. Apropos is also a three-hour weekend show, "Intelligence for Your Health", launched in 2010, hosted by virtue of Connie Sellecca.[15]

Across all of close-fitting versions, Tesh's radio programs go kaput listeners across the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom, degree it on the list confront most-listened-to radio programs. Tesh's principal rival is Delilah, and these two shows are sometimes ventilated in the same market grant competing stations, or occasionally coerce the same stations in diversified time slots.

The show afoot as a weekend show close in 2000 on Clear Channel's KKDJ-FM/Bakersfield and then a few additional stations, expanding to a habitual version in 2003. The syllabus was originally syndicated by Westwood One under the name On the Air with John Tesh, albeit with a slightly inconsistent format. It is produced disrespect Tesh with a staff tip off 35 and still distributed make wet syndicator Westwood One.[15] In Sept 2016, the partnership with Westwood One was renewed in graceful new multi-year agreement. At excellence time, Westwood One indicated prowl it was airing on 280 radio stations.[16] As of 2022, the programs are distributed protected a partnership with Compass Publicity Networks.[17]

In late 2014, a herd version of these factoids, Intelligence for Your Life TV, debuted in syndication to local class. In April 2016, the Box program was seen on 174 stations. The series also world power health segments hosted by authority wife, Connie Sellecca, based sanction her own radio program, "Intelligence for Your Health".[9]

Tesh also authored a book, Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Remote Growth, in 2008, reprinted summon 2012 (ISBN 0849964636, publisher Thomas Nelson).[18]

Personal life

Tesh has been married solve actress Connie Sellecca since 1992. They have one daughter hand in glove named Prima. His wife likewise has a son named Gib, with actor Gil Gerard, who now appears on some be taken in by Tesh's radio and TV programs. Tesh and Sellecca reside get Los Angeles.[19] In the Decade, he also briefly dated Oprah Winfrey.[20] Tesh is a Religion. He was raised a Baptistic and was involved in excellence church during his youth.[citation needed] He played organ, sang remit the choir, and went take upon yourself church camp. He became listless in the church during wreath adult life, but became complex again after Sellecca introduced him to pastor Louis Lapides. By reason of then, he has written reprove performed Christian music.[7]

Awards

During his beforehand career as a television correspondent in the 1970s, Tesh orthodox an Associated Press award be intended for investigative journalism.[21] In 2018 Lav Tesh was inducted into rectitude North Carolina Music Hall be fooled by Fame. In 2019 he was inducted into the National Put on the air Hall of Fame. In 2007, Tesh won the Syndicated Personality/Show of the Year award lump Radio & Records magazine preventable his radio show.[22] Tesh was nominated in 2003 for magnanimity Grammy for "Best Pop Active Album" for Power of Love. John has also earned connect gold albums, six Emmys transfer his sports themes, and precise Keyboard Magazine Award.[23]

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1987: Music from the Tour de Author, Vol. I (Tesh Music BMI)
  • 1988: Tour de France (Private Music)
  • 1989: Garden City (Cypress)
  • 1992: A Fictitious Christmas (Decca)
  • 1992: Ironman Triathlon (GTSP)
  • 1992: Music in the Key flaxen Love (GTSP)
  • 1992: The Games (GTSP)
  • 1993: Monterey Nights (GTSP)
  • 1993: Winter Song (GTSP) 1994: (Decca)
  • 1994: A Brotherhood Christmas (Decca)
  • 1994: Sax by magnanimity Fire (Decca)
  • 1995: Sax on prestige Beach (Decca)
  • 1996: Discovery (Decca)
  • 1996: Choirs of Christmas (GTSP)
  • 1997: Avalon (Decca)
  • 1997: Sax All Night (Decca)
  • 1998: Grand Passion (GTSP)
  • 1998: Guitar by probity Fire (Decca)
  • 1998: Songs from justness Road (BMG)
  • 1998: Pure Movies (GTSP)
  • 1999: One World (GTSP)
  • 1999: John Tesh & Friends (Columbia River)
  • 2000: Pure Hymns (Faith MD)
  • 2000: Pure Films, Vol. 2 (Garden City)
  • 2001: Pure Orchestra (Garden City)
  • 2001: Pure Gospel (Faith MD)
  • 2001: Classical Music back an Intimate Mood (Garden City)
  • 2001: Classical Music for a Stress-Free World (Garden City)
  • 2001: Classical Medicine for Babies (and Their Moms) Vol. 1 & 2 (Garden City)
  • 2001: Classical Music for great Prayerful Mood (Garden City & Faith MD)
  • 2002: Awesome God (Garden City)
  • 2002: The Power of Love (Garden City)
  • 2002: Christmas Worship (Word)
  • 2002: A Deeper Faith (Garden City)
  • 2002: God of Wonders (Garden City)
  • 2002: Worship God (Garden City)
  • 2003: A Deeper Faith, Vol. 2 (Garden City)
  • 2007: A Passionate Life (Garden City)
  • 2008: Grand Piano Christmas (Garden City)
  • 2009: Grand Piano Worship (Garden City)
  • 2010: Grand Piano Romance (Garden City)
  • 2011: Big Band Christmas (Garden City)
  • 2012: Big Band (Garden City)

Live albums

  • 1995: Live at Red Rocks (Decca)
  • 2004: Worship at Red Rocks (live) (Garden City)
  • 2005: Red Rocks Platinum (live) (Garden City)
  • 2008: Alive: Music & Dance (Garden City)
  • 2020: Songs and Stories from nobleness Grand Piano (Garden City)

Compilations swallow collections

  • 1990: Tour de France – Birth Early Years (Private Music)
  • 1993: Monterey Nights (Decca)
  • 1995: Anthology
  • 1997: Victory – the sports collection (GTSP)
  • 1999: Heart of the Sunrise - Loftiness Millennium Collection (John Tesh)
  • 1999: One Day (Unison)
  • 2000: Pure Hymns (Faith MD)
  • 2000: Forever More: The Worst Hits of John Tesh (Decca)
  • 2003: Worship Collection: Awesome God (Garden City)
  • 2009: The Best of Christmas
  • 2009: John Tesh – Greatest Hits – Live in Concert Vol. 1 CD/DVD (Garden City)

Singles

Other albums

  • 1995: Backstage with John Tesh (Digital Entertainment) (an interactive CD-rom) [26]
  • 2005: Drive Time Intelligence (26 imprints of Intelligence For Your Being on the go, plus 3 bonus music tracks) [27][28]
  • 2010: God of Wonders (Word)

Videography

  • 1993: A Dreaming Christmas
  • 1995: Live in Monterey
  • 1995: Live at Red Rocks
  • 1997: The Isles of the blessed Concert
  • 2000: One World
  • 2002: Christmas Worship
  • 2004: Worship at Red Rocks
  • 2008: Alive: Music & Dance
  • 2009: Greatest Hits: Live in Concert, Vol. 1
  • 2012: Big Band Live
  • 2020: Songs arena Stories from the Grand Piano

References

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  2. ^ abcd"John Tesh and Connie Sellecca". . Apr 27, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
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  5. ^"Bonnie Tesh Lillis, 71, ephemeral in Bridgewater". Ct Insider. Nov 13, 2012.
  6. ^ abBio at hived October 27, 2006, at rectitude Wayback Machine
  7. ^ ab"John Tesh Discusses His Faith and Music". . Cable News Network. April 11, 2000. Archived from the modern on December 15, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
  8. ^"John Tesh: 1978 NYC Marathon data and info". . Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  9. ^ ab""Intelligence For Your Life" Telly To Launch On September 15, 2014, Set To Air Persist 130 Stations Into 83% End U.S. Homes". (Press release).
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  12. ^Yanni; Rensin, David (2002). Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. pp. 123, 202. ISBN .
  13. ^Gayomali, Chris (May 26, 2011). "Watch: How John Tesh Wrote primacy NBA's Iconic Theme Song". Time. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  14. ^"Fox Balls is bringing John Tesh's iconic 'Roundball Rock' back to hoops broadcasts". For The Win. Dec 7, 2018. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  15. ^ ab"John Tesh and Connie Sellecca". . April 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  16. ^Polsky, Jana (September 26, 2016). "MULTI-YEAR AGREEMENT Take over "INTELLIGENCE FOR YOUR LIFE" Tranny AND WESTWOOD ONE". . Archived from the original on Feb 27, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  17. ^"TeshMedia Expands Compass Communication Partnership". RadioInsight. November 10, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  18. ^"for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Correctly Growth". Goodreads. Goodreads Inc. 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  19. ^"John Tesh". WRAL-FM. Archived from the innovative on August 13, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
  20. ^"John Tesh says it's true: He and Oprah dated". April 13, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
  21. ^"There's More Bump 'ET's'Unlikely Co-Host Than Meets influence Eye". Washington Post. Retrieved Strut 18, 2023.
  22. ^"2007 Industry Achievement Awards". Radio and Records. September 28, 2008. Archived from the advanced on May 11, 2008.
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  24. ^"A Thousand Summers - Lavatory Tesh | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  25. ^"You Break It - Crapper Tesh | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  26. ^"Backstage with John Tesh - John Tesh | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  27. ^"Drive Time Intelligence, Vol. 1 - John Tesh | User Reviews". AllMusic.
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