About

HARRY CONNICK JR

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Harry Connick, Jr.’s career has exemplified excellence across multiple platforms in the entertainment world over the past three decades. He has received Grammy and Emmy awards as well as Tony nominations for his live and recorded musical performances, his achievements in film and television and his appearances on Broadway as both an actor and a composer. Connick continues to establish himself as a best-selling musician and singer, a composer, actor and legendary live performer, with millions of recordings sold around the world.

The foundation of Connick’s art is the music of his native New Orleans, where he began performing as a pianist and vocalist at the age of five. Highlights of his music career include several multi-platinum recordings such as When Harry Met Sally, Blue Light, Red Light, When My Heart Finds Christmas, Come By Me, and Only You and Grammy Awards for When Harry Met Sally, We Are In Love and Songs I Heard. Most recently, Grammy nominated True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter, was released in 2019 and in 2020 as the world entered the pandemic lockdown, Connick retreated to his home studio and emerged with an album of songs of faith and inspiration. Alone With My Faith, released during the spring of 2021, displays the sheer breadth of Connick’s talents as he wrote new songs, arranged all songs, played every instrument, and sang every voice. Alone With My Faith earned Connick his 16th career Grammy nomination for Best Roots Gospel Album. Returning to the studio in 2022, Harry recorded and released a brand-new holiday album, Make It Merry, exclusively on Apple Music. The 12-track album, which marked his fourth holiday album, features Harry’s definitive take on Christmas classics as well as newly recorded versions of his own originals and fan favorites like “(It Must’ve Been Ol’) Santa Claus” and “When My Heart Finds Christmas alongside two brand-new, original songs “Make It Merry” and “On This Christmas Morning.”

Connick has appeared in 21 films including Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock, Dolphin Tale with Morgan Freeman, P.S. I Love You with Hilary Swank, New In Town with Renée Zellweger, Bug with Ashley Judd, and Copycat with Sigourney Weaver and on television (American Idol, Will & Grace, South Pacific, Australian Idol, and his Emmy Award winning concert specials (Only You in Concert and Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway.) Most recently, he starred in Find Me Falling, a romantic comedy filmed in Cyprus and released by Netflix on July 19, 2024. Harry played a rock star who retreats to a cliffside home in Cyprus after a failed comeback album only to find his new life complicated by visitors — and an old flame. Find Me Falling was the #1 English Language Film globally on Netflix upon release for two straight weeks and also features two new original songs written and performed by Harry Connick, Jr.: “Find Me Falling” (streaming on all major digital music services) and “Girl On The Beach.”

Connick launched Harry, a national daytime television show in 2016 featuring his touring band, which earned 11 Daytime Emmy nominations in its two seasons, including two nominations for best host, and a Critics’ Choice nomination for best talk show.) During the height of the pandemic in 2020, Connick hosted the CBS Special United We Sing: A Grammy® Tribute to The Unsung Heroes, honoring essential workers in the pandemic. In December of 2021, he stepped into the shoes of Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks in Annie Live! on NBC. Annie Live! Cast Album – an original soundtrack of the NBC television event was also released at the same time the live production aired.

On Broadway, Connick has received Tony nominations as both a lead actor in The Pajama Game and as a composer/lyricist for Thou Shalt Not. The 2019 release of Connick’s album True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter coincided with his return to Broadway in a show he wrote (including arranging and orchestrating over 1100 pages of music) and directed: Harry Connick, Jr.- A Celebration of Cole Porter honoring the musical achievements of one of America’s most respected songwriters, Cole Porter.

Despite his busy career, Connick has always found the time to be charitable and has done some of his most important work in his efforts to help New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. He, along with friend Branford Marsalis, conceived of “Musicians’ Village,” and its centerpiece the Ellis Marsalis Center. Musicians’ Village provides homes for Katrina-displaced musicians while the Center uses music as its focal point of a holistic strategy to deliver a broad range of services to underserved children, youth and musicians from neighborhoods battling poverty and social injustice.

Connick’s honors, including a star on the celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the 2019 class of Honorees, induction into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame, Honorary Doctorates from Tulane and Loyola Universities and the Jefferson Award for Public Service, have not led Harry Connick, Jr. to slow his creative pace; they only confirm his determination to apply his talents in ways that prove inspirational to other artists and publicly spirited citizens.