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Attention, Jazz buffs! Outstanding pianist / singer / actor, three Grammy Awards winner Harry Connick, Jr. brings his BIG BAND to Beijing and Shanghai with his latest album and his well-known classical repertoire.
Introduction
Harry Connick Jr. is one of the most popular jazz singers in contemporary America. He was born in New Orleans in the United States on September 11, 1967. His family owned a record store and his parents were lawyers. Harry Connick Jr. achieved his ambition as a singer since very young. When he was three years old, Harry Connick Jr. began learning piano. At the age of six, he had already started to carry out the piano performances in public. He started to perform and record music with the local jazz groups at the age of ten, and then went to New Orleans to create the local arts learning center.
In 1978, Harry Connick Jr. started recording his first album 11, when he was exactly 11 years old. He was greatly influenced by the Jazz Master Frank Sinatra so that his vocal style mainly follows his master. His debut album won a lot of female fans for Harry Connick Jr. Later on, Harry Connick Jr. went to the Manhattan School of Music in New York to continue his music learning life. There, Harry Connick Jr. had the chance to meet the senior officials of the record company (Columbia Records). After talks they decided to release his personal album with his own name Harry Connick Jr. in 1987, which was his second album, mainly consisting solo. In 1988, Harry Connick Jr. issued his third album, 20, in which he also started his singing.
In 1989, it was a significant milestone for Harry Connick Jr. He made a breakthrough on the Billboard by his soundtrack CD of the romantic comedy film When Harry Met Sally. He ranked No. 42 in the list of Billboard 200 and became the champion of jazz charts. In the following year at the 32nd Grammy Awards ceremony, Harry Connick Jr. won the best male jazz singer Award (Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male). This film soundtrack was sold more than 2 million, which made him become one of the most famous jazz stars. Performed in a number of movies, Harry Connick Jr. issued two albums in 1990, We Are in Love and Lofty's Roach Souffle, both of which had good sales in the market. Again, We Are in Love was sold more than 2 million, and for the second consecutive year, Harry Connick Jr. won the Grammy award for best male jazz singer.
In 1991, Harry Connick Jr., together with his fourteen-member band, recorded and issued an album Blue Light, Red Light. In 1992 Harry Connick Jr. again issued his third album 25, and edited the film soundtrack disc for the love movie Sleepless in Seattle. In 1993 he issued a Christmas album and in 1994 the album She, most of which reached platinum sales.
In 1995, Harry Connick Jr. married the Actress Jill Goodacre and continued develop in the fields of film and music. But at that time, his music was partial to the more traditional pop music and his attachment to the importance of the film outweighed the music. He also performed a number of movies, including the 1996 blockbuster science fiction Independence Day. In 1995 he issued the album Star Turtle. Since then, he shifted from movies to music and in 1997 issued a fairly good album To See You. In 1999, with Come by Me, Harry Connick Jr. got back to the top rank. In 2001 he issued two albums, Songs I Heard and 30, with Songs I Heard earning him a third Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. In 2003, he issued the album Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Vol. 1 and Harry for the Holidays. On February 3, 2004, he issued his 19th album Only You.
Already with an illustrious reputation in the world, Harry Connick, Jr. always remembers his homeland. Harry Connick, Jr. summed up this city of famous music cultures, ¡®New Orleans is like a Pandora's Box, full of treason, mercy, loftiness and so on.¡¯ ¡®Jazz, Gospel, orchestra, the rhythm of blues, country music, funk and so on can be found in New Orleans,¡¯ he stressed, ¡®but these are not the music I want to play.¡¯ What he wants to play is like what the album Oh, My NOLA displays.
Time: at 19:30 11th, March, 2008
Place: Beijing Exhibition Hall Theater
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