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| Birth Name(s) : Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. |
Date of Birth: September 11, 1967 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Jill Goodacre |
| Profession:
Actor/Musician |
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Harry's parents were both lawyers (his father Harry became New Orleans District Attorney, his mother Anita, a judge, died of ovrian cancer when Harry Jr. was 13). They owned a record store and encouraged their son's interest in music - piano at age three, with a New Orleans jazz band aged ten. He won piano competitions while playing French Quarter clubs and attending the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. At eighteen he studied at New York's Hunter College and later on at the Manhatan School of Music. At nineteen he released his first album for Columbia Records and began an extended run performing at the Algonquin's Oak Room, followed a year later by his second album. He wrote the score and sang several songs for Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally... (1989), the soundtrack for which went multi-platinum.
So far, while bringing back swing and big band music, he has earned one gold, four platinum and three multi-platinum albums, plus two Grammies. His film acting debut was as B-17 tail-gunner Clay Busby in Memphis Belle (1990). He played mass-murderer Daryll Lee Cullum in the Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter film Copycat (1995) and Captain Jimmy Wilder ("Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!") in Independence Day (1996).
Harry lives in Connecticut, is married to the former model Jill Goodacre, and has three daughters, Georgia Tatom, Sara Kate and Charlotte. |
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Additional Harry Connick Jr Biography
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967), is an American singer, pianist, actor, and humanitarian.
Connick is a founder of the Krewe of Orpheus, a music-based New Orleans krewe, taking its name from Orpheus of classical mythology. The Krewe of Orpheus parades on St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street in New Orleans on Lundi Gras (Fat Monday) — the day before Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) and is the first krewe of its kind to be open to men and women of all races.
Connick made his screen debut in Memphis Belle (1990), about a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew in World War II. In that year, he began a two-year world tour. In addition, he released two albums in July 1990: the instrumental jazz trio album Lofty's Roach Souffle and a big-band album of mostly original songs titled We Are in Love, which also went double platinum. We Are in Love earned him his second consecutive Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal.
"Promise Me You'll Remember", his contribution to the Godfather III soundtrack, was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. In a year of recognition, he was also nominated for an Emmy for Best Performance in a Variety Special for his PBS special Swingin' Out Live, which was also released as a video. In October 1991, he released his third consecutive multi-platinum album, Blue Light, Red Light, on which he wrote and arranged the songs. In October 1991, he starred in Little Man Tate, directed by Jodie Foster, playing the friend of a child prodigy who goes to college.
Connick was arrested in 1992 and charged with having a 9 mm pistol in his possession at JFK International Airport. After spending a day in jail, he agreed to make a public-service television commercial warning against breaking gun laws. The court agreed to drop all charges if Connick stayed out of trouble for six months.
In 1994, Connick decided to branch out. He released She, an album of New Orleans funk that also went platinum. In addition, he released a song called "(I Could Only) Whisper Your Name" for the soundtrack of The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, which is his most successful single in the United States to date.
In his third film Copycat, Connick played a killer. Released in 1995, Copycat also starred Holly Hunter and Sigourney Weaver. The following year, he released his second funk album, Star Turtle, which did not sell as well as previous albums, although it did reach No. 38 on the charts. However, he appeared in the most successful movie of 1996, Independence Day, with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum.
Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000; it premiered in 2001. His music and lyrics garnerned a Tony Award nomination. He was also the narrator of the film My Dog Skip, released in that year.
An animated holiday special, The Happy Elf, aired on NBC in December 2005, with Connick as the composer, the narrator, and one of the executive producers. Shortly after, it was released on DVD. The holiday special was based on his original song The Happy Elf, from his 2003 album Harry for the Holidays. Another album from Marsalis Music was recorded in 2005, Occasion : Connick on Piano, Volume 2, a duo album with Harry Connick, Jr. on piano together with Branford Marsalis on saxophone. A music DVD, A Duo Occasion, was filmed at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival 2005 in Canada, and released in November 2005.
Harry for the Holidays
- Release Date: October 28, 2003
- Genre: Christmas, Big band/Orchestra
- Label: Sony
- Chart Positions: #1 US Jazz, #12 US
- RIAA certification: Platinum (US)
Other Hours : Connick on Piano, Volume 1
- Release Date: July 15, 2003
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Marsalis music
- Chart Positions: #2 US Jazz
- RIAA certification: -
- Instrumental album (no vocals)
Songs I Heard
- Release Date: October 23, 2001
- Genre: Big band/Orchestra
- Label: Sony
- Chart Positions: #2 US Jazz, #88 US
- RIAA certification: -
Star Turtle
- Release Date: July 2, 1996
- Genre: Funk
- Label: Sony
- Chart Positions: #38 US
- RIAA certification: Gold (US)
25
- Release Date: November 24, 1992
- Genre: Piano
- Label: Sony
- Chart Positions: #1 US Jazz, #19 US
- RIAA certification: Platinum (US)
Lofty's Roach Souffle
- Release Date: July 3, 1990
- Genre: Jazz trio
- Label: Sony
- Chart Positions: #4 US Jazz, #94 US
- RIAA certification: -
- Instrumental album (no vocals)
- 1991 Grammy nomination:Best Instrumental Composition- "One Last Pitch (Take 2)" — Harry Connick, Jr. & Joe Livingston
Harry Connick Jr.
- Release Date: November 17, 1987
- Genre: Solo piano
- Label: Sony
- Chart Positions: -
- RIAA certification: Gold (US)
- Instrumental album (no vocals)
11
- Release Date: November 20, 1992 (Originally Released: 1979)
- Genre: Piano, dixieland
- Label: Sony
- Chart Positions: #14 US Jazz
- RIAA certification: -
Dixieland Plus
- Release Date: 1977
- Genre: Dixieland
- Label: Adco Productions
- Chart Positions: -
- RIAA certification: -
Mickey
- Release Date: April 30, 2004
- Genre: Baseball movie
- Distributed by: Mickey Productions, Slugger Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment
The Simian Line
- Release Date: February 21, 2006 (Originally Released: 2000)
- Genre: drama
- Distributed by: Gabriel Film Group
Independence Day
- Release Date: July 3, 1996
- Genre: science fiction
- Distributed by: 20th century Fox |
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