A seasoned performer
Eddie Tuleja brings a wide experience of life and music to his eclectic radio show. Photo supplied.
Abraham Lincoln is renowned for many things. One of them is the fact that he shares birthdays with Meander’s Eddie Tuleja (not the same year, it must be added).
Eddie, a member of a military family, grew up in New Jersey, USA, and later lived in quite a few other states and countries.
Attending Cornell University and graduating in the History of Art, in due course, he also studied aquaculture.
All this prepared him for a lifetime as an amazing musician, of course. His music career began with a band playing soul music, rhythm and blues and African American music.
While living in Paris in the early 1970s, he recorded ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’, a song which continues to be played to this day.
Then Eddie was back in the US where he toured with a band and, while in California, was invited to join the Beach Boys. He then played in a country and western band in Florida.
A change of direction led him to France and sailing. He brought a boat to the Caribbean and there he met his future wife, Diana.
Back to New Jersey, then in 1988, Eddie arrived in NSW and paid a visit to Tasmania.
He’s still here, in Tasmania, and has worked as a carpenter and as a guitar tutor. He led a course in Creative Listening with TAFE and last year made a CD, ‘One in a Row’.
Eddie is well known these days as a very recognisable performer in the Meander Valley, appearing frequently in concerts, at markets and special events. And, of course, there are the musicals such as ‘Shrek’.
With his colleague, Greg Rossiter, Eddie presents a relaxed, informed program on MVFM, ‘The Eclectic Show’.
It’s a cavalcade of good music and may be heard on Monday evenings at 7pm and Saturday afternoon at 1pm.
Eclectic, by the way, means ‘selected from many different sources’ and Eddie and Greg’s show is certainly that.
