![]() The court agreed to drop all charges if Connick stayed out of trouble for six months. ![]() After spending a day in jail, he agreed to make a public-service television commercial warning against breaking gun laws. In October 1991, he starred in Little Man Tate, directed by Jodie Foster, playing the friend of a child prodigy who goes to college.Ĭonnick was arrested in 1992 and charged with having a 9mm pistol in his possession at JFK International Airport. In October 1991, he released his third consecutive multi-platinum album, Blue Light, Red Light, on which he wrote and arranged the songs. 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. “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. We Are in Love earned him his second consecutive Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal. 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. ![]() In that year, he began a two-year world tour. He won his first Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance for his work on the soundtrack.Ĭonnick made his screen debut in Memphis Belle (1990), about a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew in World War II. The soundtrack consisted of several standards, including “It Had to Be You”, “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”, and achieved double-platinum status in the United States. ![]() With Connick’s growing reputation, director Rob Reiner asked him to provide a soundtrack for his 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally…, starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. When Harry Met Sally… - chart and movie success His next album, 20, featured his vocals and added to this reputation. He soon acquired a reputation in jazz because of extended stays at high-profile New York venues. His first record for the label, Harry Connick Jr., was a mainly instrumental album of standards. ![]() He moved to New York City to study at Hunter College and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where a Columbia Records executive persuaded him to sign with that label. His musical talents were developed at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and under the tutelage of Ellis Marsalis and James Booker.Ĭonnick attended Jesuit High School and Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. He was raised in the Lakeview neighbourhood of New Orleans.Connick’s musical talents soon came to the fore when he learned the keyboards at the age of three, played publicly at age six and recorded with a local jazz band at 10. Connick, Jr.’s mother, a native of New York City, was Jewish, and his father is of Irish Catholic background. in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Anita, a judge, lawyer, and former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, and Harry Connick, Sr., who was the district attorney of New Orleans from 1977-2003, successfully running against Jim Garrison. was born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. Connick’s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues.Ĭonnick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and humanitarian. ![]()
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