ABOUT

JOHN DELEY

Piano, Organ, Musical Director, Composer

John Deley is from Pittsburgh, PA, where he grew up playing Beethoven Sonatas and Who tunes.  After attending Carnegie-Mellon University as a classical piano major, he found that there was a lot more music in the world that he wanted to explore, so he moved to Boston to do a masters degree in Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory. He followed all his friends to New York in 1997, and started his career as a sideman which has included such artists as Dido, Angelique Kidjo, Lizz Wright, Incognito, Elle King, Darlene Love,  Valerie June and more recently Idina Menzel and David Johansen. For the last 11 years he’s worked as keyboard player for Sesame Street. When he’s not being a sideman, he’s performing with his New Orleans band, The 41 Players.