The CD's were originally sold through mail order with a PayPal account by Vesely, eventually he signed up with distributor TuneCore, making Secondhand Serenade's songs available on music portals including iTunes. It was recorded as a demo, after booking a few days at a San Francisco studio earlier in 2005, "using just an acoustic guitar and his multi-tracked vocals." The album was promoted through the Secondhand Serenade Myspace page and by playing local shows. In 2005, Vesely released his debut album titled Awake. People around the world are merely getting to hear the songs 'second-hand.' While Vesely continues to market the affectionate biography, Vesely broke up with his former wife Candice while touring in 2008 and subsequently divorced. The pseudonym Secondhand Serenade is a reference to the way in which his songs were 'serenades' sung to his former wife Candice, with whom he has two young sons. She had wanted him to play a song and "serenading her with a bass guitar was out of the question." He has admitted he found his "true calling" when he picked up the guitar. Vesely began writing his own songs when he met his wife Candice Vesely. After years of playing bass, he opted for an acoustic guitar. One of the bands he played in, Sounds Like Life, included fellow Bay Area artist Ronnie Day. He spent 8 years playing as a bassist in local bands, featuring in a number of acts ranging in style from ska and hardcore to rock and pop. Vesely was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area in a musical family and as the son of a professional jazz musician father, commenting that "getting into music was a natural thing" for him. John Joseph Vesely formed Secondhand Serenade in his home town of Menlo Park in California, USA, in 2004. The debut album used multitrack recording to create the sound of a band using technology, while the second album took a different path, using a proper band and an orchestra to establish a more accomplished sound. Vesely has released two studio albums to date under the name Secondhand Serenade, Awake in 2007 and A Twist in My Story in 2008. Secondhand Serenade is an American acoustic rock solo project fronted by vocalist and guitarist John Vesely.
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