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Louis Anthony deLise was raised in rural Warrington, Bucks County Pennsylvania. deLise composes concert music, arranges and conducts for commercial recordings, and composes and produces music for radio, television and film. Dr. deLise began his professional career as a drummer and percussionist with local Philadelphia (USA) soul and jazz groups.

As a youngster deLise began playing the drums and teaching himself to play the family piano, reading from "fake books" and writing songs. He began music theory at age 14. Lou made his first recordings as a drummer, piano player and arranger at age 16 with singers Eddie Bruce and Richard Bush. (Bruce went on to host Dancing on Air on USA Network; Bush led the band the A’s on Arista Records). deLise played drums and percussion with local Philadelphia soul and jazz groups and with Luciano Pavarotti, Mel Tormé, Beverly Sills, Dianna Ross, Lou Rawls, Henry Mancini, Dave Brubeck, George Shearing, Mercer Ellington and many others. Dr. deLise was for many years a percussionist with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and percussionist and arranger for Peter Nero and the Philly Pops.

Lou deLise’s recording credits as a producer and arranger/conductor include hits for William DeVaughn (“Figures Can’t Calculate” and “Be Thankful for What You Got”) and the J’s (“When Did You Stop”) and John Gibbs (“J’Ouvert” and “Trinadad”). A recording deLise produced and arranged of a song he co-wrote, “Trinidad”, was sampled for the Tori Amos platinum record, “Professional Widow”. His arranging and conducting credits include chart records for SPiN (“Home”), and a number one album for Patti LaBelle (The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle), his second album for Miss Patti.

He was also music director (arranger and conductor) for Halestorm, Robert Hazard ("Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"), the Barrymore Awards and Jon DeLise, and has written “a ton” of music for broadcasting and advertising including work for ABC, PBS, CBS, Merck Co., Pep Boys, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Coca Cola, Melitta Coffee, Mannington Floors and DuPont. The theme he wrote for the television series, PrimeTime (“It’s the PrimeTime of My Life”) is recognized as a Philadelphia classic. In 1997, with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, he created, wrote and produced the radio program series, Notes from Philadelphia, which won the national “Award of Excellence” from the Communicator Awards in 1998.

deLise has written articles for the National Speakers Association magazine, Speaker, and was a contributing writer for Music First! published by McGraw-Hill Co. and has been profiled in Audio Visual Communications, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily Intelligencer, The Courier Post and The Temple Review. He has been featured on Good Day Philadelphia (Fox/Philadelphia), and PrimeTime (6ABC/Philadelphia).

Dr. deLise has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in the Composition and Jazz Studies departments and as an Adjunct Professor of Composition and Theory at Rowan University.

In 2009, deLise received a doctorate in composition from the Boyer College of Music and Dance. Lou and his wife Theresa live in Cherry Hill, NJ.

For a complete discography, titles of text publications and list of awards, please consult Dr. deLise's Website.