Harry Connick Jr. has a vast knowledge of musical genres and in 1994, released She, an album of New Orleans funk that went platinum. Here Comes The Big Parade comes from this 1994 album, She.
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and television host. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Connick's best-selling album is his Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas (1993). He has won three Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards. Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film Memphis Belle (1990) and played a serial killer in Copycat (1995) before being cast as a fighter pilot in the blockbuster Independence Day (1996). Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, his mother was a lawyer and judge and his father was a district attorney. His parents also owned a record store. Connick started learning keyboards aged three, playing publicly aged five, and recording with a local jazz band aged ten. When he was only nine years old, Connick performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. His musical talents were developed at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts under the tutelage of Ellis Marsalis Jr. (father or Wynton and Branford). After moving to New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music, he soon acquired a strong reputation in jazz after releasing his first solo record, Harry Connick Jr. With Connick's reputation growing, film director Rob Reiner asked him to provide a soundtrack for his romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally, starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. Consisting mainly of standards, the soundtrack earned double-platinum status in the US and Connick won his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance for his work on the soundtrack.
