Ted Grossman

Theodore Grossman was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in 1942. He graduated from North Miami High School in North Miami, Florida, in 1960 and was a speech major at Dade Junior College (now Miami-Dade College). One of his earliest jobs for which he was paid for his speaking skills was in 1967 when he announced the dolphin shows at the Miami Seaquarium for $90 a week. Later, he worked as a parts manager for an appliance store. Eventually, he became a postal employee, driving over 100 mi (160 km) a day carrying special delivery letters for the U.S. Postal Service. "The first live jazz I saw," Grossman told the Miami Herald in 1983,