Jesse Bonanno is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 from Albany, New York

Albany, New York

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...

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Biography

Jesse was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1983, grew up in Albany, NY and lives in Boston, MA. Jesse has performed live on Fox News WXXA-TV

WXXA-TV

WXXA-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Upstate New York's Capital District and Western New England. Licensed to Albany, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland's Voorheesville section. The station can also be seen...

,B95.5 radio station WYJB

WYJB

WYJB is an adult contemporary formatted radio station licensed to Albany, New York and serving New York's Capital District as well as the surrounding areas, including the Adirondacks...

, and was featured on ASF Radio as the Artist of the Month. In 2008, the TV series Whitaker Bay on the ION Network featured his track “With You Tonight”.

In 2008 Jesse worked with producer Stephen Gause

Stephen Gause

Stephen Gause is originally from Columbia, South Carolina, but has lived in Nashville, Tennessee since August 1993. He came to Nashville originally to attend Belmont University where he earned a degree in commercial music with emphasis in performance and production...

 of Invertigo productions in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

 to create an EP titled “Check Please”.

Jesse is trained on the viola and self-taught on the piano, violin and guitar. When writing songs, his instrument of choice is the piano.

In addition to being a singer/songwriter Jesse currently works as an Oracle consultant for Accenture

Accenture

Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...

 in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

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Discography

Album	Information	Featured songs
Say You Will	Released: 2006 Indie Independent record label An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...  release	"Say You Will" "With You Tonight" "Can’t Imagine"
Check Please	Released: 2008 Debut studio EP Extended play An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...	"Check Please" "Never Alone" "Meant To Be"
Runaway Dream Machine	Released: February 14, 2010 Second studio album	"Around" "Hideaway" "Throw Away" "How Does It Feel"

External links

• Jesse Bonanno official site