For over 30 years, armed with keyboard, guitar, bass and drums, entertainer Dave Caruso has performed more than 4,000 shows in hundreds of cities throughout the United States and Canada. Dave's dueling pianos company, Piano Wars!, has entertained at thousands of corporate events, fund-raisers, private parties, wedding receptions, outdoor festivals and house parties.

Caruso's use of costumes and props make his dueling show memorable, but it's his comic timing and audience rapport that make him a standout among dueling pianos entertainers.  As the "Man of a Thousand Songs," Caruso amazes audiences everywhere by his ability to read a crowd and to play just about any song he's heard.  Original song parodies are just one way in which Dave puts the spotlight on audience members throughout his show.

Under Dave's leadership as Entertainment Director at Pub 13 in Ypsilanti, MI, the club was voted "Best Piano Bar" by the readers of Real Detroit Weekly.  During the following year as E.D. in Mishawaka, IN, Rum Runners broke a 4-year nomination streak by finally winning the reader's choice award for "Best Live Entertainment" in the South Bend Tribune.  This experience has strengthened Dave's skills as a dueling pianos instructor and he's often hired for dueling pianos wait staff training for hourly "showtime" dance routines.

Caruso's original music web site, www.DaveCarusoWeb.com, is loaded with pictures, audio, and video, and stories which chronicle his music career outside the world of dueling pianos.