As a kid, I grew up with John Tesh and Yanni on PBS.
In my mind, I always imagined that Yanni would kick Tesh's wimpy ass. My preference of Yanni over Tesh was due 100% to his mustache, which made him look to me like a longer-haired version of my dad.
However, Yanni would eventually fall out of the limelight of my young life and I would find John Tesh was more and more involved in my life than I thought.
I used to catch Tesh on Music from the Hearts of Space on NPR late at night, and it used to scare the shit out of me (whale sounds after dark as a child are terrifying). I love that kind of minimalist ambient white noise music now, though.
One Christmas a few years ago, I found that Tesh hosted a radio show that did pseudo-advice for dumb people that came on after Delilah's show where she gives really bad relationship advice, also to dumb people. This was the globally-syndicated Mix station that is exactly, disconcertingly the same in any city you go to.
Because of his reentry into my life, I began to notice his voice in commercials (especially for Amway) more and more.
Obviously, because of the earlier parallel to my father, the only conclusion I can logically come to is that Yanni represents my long-lost biological father who I idolize and idealize though he abandoned me and neglected me in my most impressionable stages of early life; whereas John Tesh represents the kind stepfather who has stepped in and tries to win me over with fatherly advice and Amway products, and yet I resent him even though he has been in my life longer and provided more love for me than my biological father (Yanni) ever did.
I am not sure where this leaves my actual father.