Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. is an American singer, musician, and actor. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in US jazz chart history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth11 September 1967
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.
[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.
There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.
I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.
You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
You can't have a perfect show every time.
Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.
The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff.
I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.