Composer / Producer / Author / Bike-o-holic / Guitar-Giver
From small town punk, playing in a garage band with his Fender amp cranked to eleven—stomping on his wah-fuzz pedal, to becoming the Jingle King of Minneapolis, Terry has written and produced thousands of pieces of music for TV commercials…from Target to McDonalds, Pepsi to Perkins, Harleys to Hondas, and Golden Grahams to Billy Graham.
After writing roughly 2000 commercials, scoring films, and writing for TV shows, he decided to take a break from the music biz and tried his hand at writing words. He wrote a book called Blue Collar God/White Collar God. (Thomas Nelson, 2001) He followed that with two more published books, Surprise Me, (Nav Press, 2005) and Be the Surprise (Nav Press, 2008). He recently finished his first novel, JE2US, to be released in 2019.
Terry, a certified bike-o-holic, started a non-profit in 2010 called Free Bikes 4 Kidz (FB4K.org), which has given away over 70,000 bicycles to kids in need, has set the Guinness World Record for most bikes collected in one day, and is now in many cities across the US—soon to be in London and Vancouver. In 2019 Terry is launching a new non-profit that will be giving guitars to underserved kids, Free Guitars 4 Kids (FG4K.org).
Terry lives in Minneapolis, and when he’s not traveling and speaking, or giving away bikes and guitars, he’s hanging out at home with his wife, Mary. But most days you can find him racing down the road on what he calls his ‘carbon-fiber therapist’ wearing the unquenchable grin of a 5-year-old.