Harry Connick Jr.

Harry Connick Jr. is one of those rare talents where you genuinely can't put him in a box — the man is a world-class jazz pianist, a velvet-voiced singer who helped revive the Great American Songbook for a whole generation, a credible actor (When Harry Met Sally soundtrack alone cemented his cool factor before most people even knew his name), and a Broadway performer who picked up a Theatre World Award. Growing up in New Orleans soaked him in the real stuff — not the tourist version — and that authenticity bleeds into everything he does. Selling over 30 million records and landing a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame says plenty, but what I love most is that he never seemed to chase trends; he just kept doing Harry Connick Jr. things with total confidence, and the audience kept showing up.

Name (English)

Harry Connick Jr.

Name (Japanese)

ハリー・コニック・ジュニア

Reading

はりー・こにっく・じゅにあ

Born

September 11, 1967 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Occupation

actor / singer-songwriter / bandleader / composer / conductor

High school

Jesuit High School

University

Hunter College

Awards & achievements

• Primetime Emmy Award
• 2006 Theatre World Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.harryconnickjr.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/harryconnickjr/
• Xhttps://x.com/harryconnickjr
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2

Tags

• Louisiana
• actor
• singer-songwriter
• bandleader

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.