At the age of five, Dale Gonyea got up very
early one morning and, without a single lesson,
spontaneously began playing the piano. His parents were
astonished because they did not have a piano. They decided
he needed therapy or music lessons. Therapy was expensive.
They bought a piano and a career was born.
At ten, Dale saw the movie, West Side
Story and was furious he hadn't written it. One of
Vince and Shirley Gonyea's nine offspring from Monroe,
Michigan, he is a University of Michigan music graduate, who
now uses the piano as the springboard for his unique humor.
It has brought him worldwide acclaim.
Named "Classic Comedian of the Year" by a
Manhattan radio station, Gonyea is also an Emmy winner, and
a Clio nominee. He has written songs for Disney and numerous
national jingles. Dale's own comedy album is titled
Songs My Next-door-Neighbor Knows By Heart.
The Los Angeles Times proclaimed
him "heir to the piano-comedy throne" during the run of his
solo theater piece, A Twelve O’clock Guy in a Nine
O’clock Town. During his subsequent theater piece,
An American in Pasadena, thousands were inspired to
pull up stakes and move to Pasadena.
Gonyea has numerous television appearances
and he spent an amazing year living in England, performing
and writing for a satirical British television show
entitled, etc. Other live appearances have ranged
from Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas to Trump Castle in
Atlantic City to Town Hall, Manhattan.
