Secondhand Serenade is the one-man band of American rock vocalist, pianist and guitarist John Vesely.

[6] John Vesely (born February 5, 1982) started performing as Secondhand Serenade in his home town of Menlo Park in California in 2004.

He spent 8 years playing bass in local bands, featuring in a number of acts ranging in style from ska and hardcore to rock and pop.

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 CDs 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.

[13] The album experienced tremendous online support, and by the end of 2006 Secondhand Serenade had received millions of plays on MySpace and had been the social-networking site's No.

In support of his first label release, Vesely was featured on MTV's You Hear It First, AOL Music's Breakers Yahoo!

[12] He also played numerous shows, including tours with Hawthorne Heights and The All-American Rejects and at music festivals South by Southwest and alongside My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park at The Bamboozle.

A Twist in My Story was released on February 19, 2008, and features songs from Awake such as "Maybe" and "Your Call," but reproduced with a full band.

On January 28, 2008, the music video for the first single from the album "Fall for You" premiered on the MTV show TRL.

Members of his touring band include Steve Shebby on bass guitar, Lukas Vesely (Vesely's brother) on keys, Ryan Cook (former bassist of the White Tie Affair) on lead guitar, and Tom Breyfogle on drums.

After this release Vesely goes back to the studio to record his new album with producer/engineer Brandon Metcalf in Nashville, TN.

[23] On April 24, 2015, Vesely proposed to Veronica Ballestrini on stage at his show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ballestrini later went on tour with him starting on March 8 in Lexington, Kentucky and ended on April 10 in West Hollywood, California.

The duo started a collaboration act as the Rebel Roads and released their single "First to Know" on iTunes on December 2, 2016.