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Harry Connick, Jr.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ev

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Harry Connick, Jr. explains that jazz inspired him to become a musician and that he chooses to perform songs that personally resonate with him.

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