John Telaak is a singer/songwriter/producer/SFX & Foley engineer from Buffalo,Ny now living in Lauderdale By The Sea,FL. John has scored indie films and over the years has worked with Armand Petri (Goo Goo Dolls,10,000 Maniacs,Sixpence None The Richer) and Fen Ikner (Calexico among other notable indies) he now writes and records in his home studio for film, Tv and a small growing fan base ~ I only have a small percentage of my SFX & music catalog here.

John has had 165 Tv/film music placements (since 2012) that include CBS'S SUPER BOWL'S GREATEST COMMERCIALS 2016 SPECIAL, The 2013 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards - A&E's Dead Again, MTV, MTV News "Nirvana: Past Present Future" and several placements on various shows on THe Paramount Network, The History Channel - 3 on VICELAND's Vice Essentials Doc Series (The Real Walter White Documentary,Bong Appetit, Frozen Faith) as well as a Viceland commercial - TBS's Search Party, Fuel Tv, CMT, (Raiders Of Rock), MTV Canada, TruTv, The Science Channel, Comedy Central, 3 episodes of OLN's Project Guatemala (Canada), Telemundo, CTV, Style Network (France), 5USA (UK), The DIY Network, UNSEALED : Alien Files, The NHL Network, Fox Sports - Last Call With Carson Daly on NBC - The Military Channel, Fuse (Fuse News/Nirvana spot), The Discovery Channel, The Esquire Network, Spike, The National Geographic Channel, The Sundance Channel, TLC , The Bravo Network, ESPN, truTv a song in the VICE documentary - Black Sabbath and the Birth of Heavy Metal On The Road, another Documentary and plenty of others i'm awaiting info on or haven't been notified of yet - I occasionally score and have had my music placed in indie films - with new placements coming monthly. John occasionally scores indie films as well.John's sound effects can be heard all over the world on radio/Tv indie films and the web, John's been indie and DIY since the start and has had some major label interest in an accidental way.He's just now starting to hit his stride in the world of music licensing & indie films and works hard at it daily.