Eric defade bio

With over thirty years of professional experience Eric DeFade is in demand as a performing artist and studio musician. Few musicians enjoy a schedule as demanding or varied. For the past ten years Eric has been a featured performer for the ‘My Music’ series on PBS.

This program is internationally broadcast and features such artists as Patti Labelle, Isaac Hayes, the Temptations, Robert Goulet, Wild Cherry, the Platters ,and the Commodores to name a few. Eric has played with music greats Rosemary Clooney, Josh Groban, the New York voices, Gary Burton, John Scofield, Dave Liebman, Ahmad Jamal, Benny Golson and has toured internationally with The Artie Shaw band and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

Eric has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show accompanying legendary jazz vocalist Nancy Wilson.

A Mcdonald’s all-American and multi instrumentalist, Eric received a scholarship to study jazz performance at the University of North Texas and was the lead tenor saxophonist with the Dallas ja