About JesseAward-winning singer, songwriter, musician and actor Jesse Moore has traveled the world performing on concert and theatrical stages. Motion picture and television aficionados will recognize his face for his portrayals of bureaucrats, legal and medical professionals, or homeless people in a myriad of productions. Jesse began his music career by winning the famed Apollo Theater Talent Night Contest, at the tender age of twelve, singing Smokey Robinson's WHO'S LOVING YOU. The win gained him a recording contract with Star Records and a manager, who had connections with the emerging rock and roll writers at the famed Brill Building in New York. Jesse soon began recording demos, and his vocal prowess was put to the test performing the 'girl' parts, in songs that were being written by writers, that included Carole King, Gerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Being around such great writers was a huge influence on him and soon he began to compose his own material. While still in his teens, he joined The Stereos and as lead singer wrote and recorded an album on MGM Verve Records, produced by the legendary Tom Wilson of Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa fame.
This led to major television appearances in network shows that included NBC's LAW AND ORDER, FOX TV's AMERICA'S MOST WANTED and in the daytime soaps AS THE WORLD TURNS and THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, as well as joining PBS' GHOSTWRITER as a series regular. Film appearances include HBO's THE BABY SITTERS CLUB, HOWARD THE DUCK and most recently THE NOVICE, with Alan Arkin and Frank Langella, and the soon to be released PRIDE, starring Tom Arnold, Bernie Mac and Terrence Howard, in which Jesse plays the father of the only girl on a high school inner-city swim team. (Acting Career Credits)
In 2005, his release of MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF, was lauded as "One of the Top 10 CD's of the year," by The Times-Picayune and Tom Morgan of WWOZ Radio noted, "…a grand collaboration with some of New Orleans' best songwriters and musicians." The CD included an acoustic and classic rock version of Anders Osborne and J. Ragsdale's IT'S GONNA BE OKAY, and during a broadcast of TV 4's Eyewitness News on WWL, reporter Eric Paulsen commented, "(the song)…should be the official post-Katrina anthem."
In keeping with his decades of awards and accolades for his performances, in 2006 he won the Battle of Bands competition at the 14th Annual Cutting Edge Music Business Conference & Roots Music Gathering in New Orleans, garnering free studio time at Piety Street Recording, a one-year membership in the American Federation of Musicians and a feature article in International Musician Magazine. Upcoming projects include the release of a new CD, ALIVE IN SINGAPORE, an autobiography THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY. He is also the co-founder of the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, a non-profit organization that rescues abused and abandoned horses and farm animals in up-state New York.
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Upon returning to the United States and settling in San Francisco, he
recreated Prophecy, recorded new product and toured up and down the
West Coast. Deciding to leave the group to develop his solo act, he
also entered college to major in music and theatre, eventually
receiving a scholarship to the prestigious American Conservatory
Theatre. Soon, his smooth vocals landed him major roles in legitimate
theatre, in local and regional productions of the musicals DAMES AT
SEA, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and creating the role of Orpheus in the
Crossroads Theatre production of BLACK ORPHEUS, in New York. He also
joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, touring the world in SECRETS IN
THE SAND and DRAGON LADY'S REVENGE, which won them a Tony Award, in
1987, for 'Excellence in Regional Theatre' and culminated in another
tour, ending at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., with THE
MOZAMGOLA CAPER.
Jesse Moore performs his solo acoustic act Wednesday through Saturday
at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville from 5pm to 7pm. On Saturday nights,
after 10pm, he performs with his band consisting of Marc Adams on
keyboard, Gene Harding on drums, Don Williams on bass, Chris Klein on
harp, sax, flute and harmonica, with backup vocals by Jeanine Crowe at
Palm Tavern.
