Harry Connick, Jr.

Harry Connick, Jr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Harry Connick, Jr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American singer, pianist, actor, and humanitarian. His music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early '50s, funk and blues. He married model Jill Goodacre, originally from Texas, in 1994. They have three daughters: Georgia Tatom, Sarah Kate, and Charlotte.

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Carla Bruni, Harry Connick Jr reunite for French TV duet

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Carla Bruni, the supermodel wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, and US crooner Harry Connick Junior reunite Monday on French television for a duet of the Beatles' song "And I Love Her." Connick told AFP that the pair will reprise the sultry bossa-nova cover they recently recorded in Paris as a bonus for the European version of the American singer's newly-released album. "She was really impressive," Connick said of his last encounter with Bruni, with whom he was due to appear on a Monday evening show on Canal Plus pay television. "I didn't know that much about her and I told my wife and she ... Read Full Story

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Carla Bruni and Harry Connick Jr to reprise Beatles song

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France’s First Lady Carla Bruni and Harry Connick Jr will team up on French television for a duet of the Beatles classic, And I Love Her. Bruni and Connick Jr recently recorded a bossa nova cover version of the love song in Paris to accompany Connick Jr’s European album release. The US entertainer said: “She was really impressive. I didn’t know that much about her and I told my wife and she goes: ‘Oh I know Carla,’ because they used to work together years ago and she says she’s a great singer, songwriter. She knows what she wants to do [ Read More ] ... Read Full Story

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Harry Connick Jr Talks to PBS' Tavis Smiley about New CD- Your Songs!

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Musician and actor Harry Connick, Jr. will appear tonight on PBS' "Tavis Smiley " to talk about his new album, "Your Songs" and his charity work in New Orleans. During the interview, Connick talks about preserving the music in New Orleans: "I think it boils down to having places to play....It's very much passed on orally, it's passed on by sitting and playing, and yeah you can pass it on. But you - we - have a responsibility now to do something. When I was growing up, you just assumed that all those clubs, we didn't assume the levies were going to break. I ... Read Full Story

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Connick says he did right thing by denouncing skit

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Harry Connick Jr. says he did the right thing by expressing his outrage at a blackface skit poking fun at the Jackson Five in Australia last week. "I'm pleased with the way I handled the situation," the 42-year-old American singer and actor told reporters Wednesday in Hong Kong, where he was promoting his new album "Your Songs." "I handled it in exactly the manner I thought was appropriate," he said. The skit was featured on an Australian TV variety show where Connick was a guest judge. Four men in blackface and with Afro wigs sang and danced behind a Michael Jackson impersonator wearing white ... Read Full Story

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Harry Connick Jr. Calls Out Blackface Jackson 5 Tribute on Australian TV Show

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Getty Images Harry Connick Jr. appeared as a guest judge on the Australian television show Hey Hey It's Saturday yesterday (even though it was Wednesday) and he was less-than-amused by one group of doctors who performed a Jackson 5 routine in blackface -- except the Michael Jackson impersonator, whose face was painted white. According to SeattlePI.com , Connick became "visibly uncomfortable" watching the act and ultimately awarded them zero points. Connick scoring the show (via MovieLine) He said that if the routine had aired in the US, the show would have been canceled: "I just want to say, on behalf of my country, I ... Read Full Story

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Harry Connick, Jr. – Your Songs

On Your Songs, Harry Connick, Jr. uses the Frank Sinatra swag to reinvigorate classic popular tunes by the likes of Billy Joe, Elton John and Nat King Cole. The results are mixed. His version of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You” is straightforward yet enticing thanks to the help of Wynton Marsalis’s [...]

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Harry Connick, Jr.: Direct Hits

Harry Connick, Jr.: Direct HitsJazzTimes MagazineBut they'd be stymied by Harry Connick Jr., who has done all these things plus a whole lot more and, true to his New Orleans jazz roots, still manages to ...

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Connick, Jr. 'Pleased' He Denounced Aussie Skit

Harry Connick, JR. is happy he spoke out against a controversial Australian TV talent show skit - insisting his outburst was "appropriate".The singer was left dumbfounded when he was expected to judge the Jackson Jive - an act consisting of six white men who painted their faces black and performed behind a white-faced Michael Jackson impersonator. ...

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Jacksons Praise Connick, Jr. for Slamming 'tribute' Act

Marlon Jackson has commended Harry Connick, jr. for reprimanding the behaviour of six white men dancing as the Jackson 5 on a Aussie talent show -but is adamant the performers didn't mean to cause offence.A group of performers, dubbed the Jackson Jive, left Connick, Jr.dumbstruck on long-running Australian show Hey Hey It's Saturday, after they pai...

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Harry Connick Jr. Slams Australian Blackface Skit

An Australian variety show host has apologized for a skit in which singers parodying the Jackson Five performed in blackface. American singer and actor Harry Connick Jr., who was serving as a guest judge on Wednesday night's "Hey Hey It's Saturday," was visibly shocked by the skit, in which four men with afro wigs and blackface sang and danced behind a Michael Jackson impersonator wearing white makeup. Connick, 42, gave the performance a zero...

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