Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. ( born September 11, 1967 ) is an American singer, big-band leader / conductor, pianist, actor, and composer.

Connick, Jr., was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Connick, Jr .' s father is a Catholic of Irish ancestry.

Connick, Jr. has a sister, Suzanna ; the siblings were raised in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans.

When Connick, Jr., was nine years old, he performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 of Beethoven with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra ( now the Louisiana Philharmonic ), and later played a duet with Eubie Blake at the Royal Orleans Esplanade Lounge in New Orleans.

The clip was also shown in a Bravo special, called Worlds of Harry Connick, Jr. in 1999.

His first record for the label, Harry Connick Jr., was a mainly instrumental album of standards.

A music DVD Harry Connick Jr. — " Only You " in Concert was released in March 2004, after it had first aired as a Great Performances special on PBS.

Another album from Marsalis Music was recorded in 2005, Occasion: Connick on Piano, Volume 2, a duo album with Harry Connick, Jr. on piano together with Branford Marsalis on saxophone.

Harry Connick, Jr. in concert, Savannah, Georgia, Feb 27, 2007

Harry Connick, Jr. and Renée Zellweger at the Rachael Ray show, January 30, 2009.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

" What I do like about him is he seems to be a guy who's interested in the truth ," Connick Jr. says of Haden.

Reviews for Connick and his first SVU episode were fairly positive, TV Guide " cheered " Harry Connick Jr. for " getting in tune " with Law & Order: SVU.

Connick Jr. brought a light, quirky tone to the often-dark drama as his character, David Haden, helped Det.

Mariska Hargitay ( Olivia Benson | Detective Olivia Benson ) and Harry Connick, Jr. ( David Haden | Executive Assistant District Attorney David Haden ) in the Law & Order: SVU episode, " Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( season 13 )# ep12 | Official Story ".

Connick, Jr. was also thrilled to learn he'd be playing an executive assistant district attorney on Law & Order: SVU, because the role gives him the chance to act like his father, who was district attorney of New Orleans, LA for 30 years.

Connick, Jr. also hopes David Haden doesn't cheat on Olivia Benson, he told TV Guide magazine, " I don't want to get caught cheating.

" Connick, Jr. admitted fans of sitcom Will & Grace gave him a hard time when his character on that show cheated on Debra Messing's character, Grace Adler.

SVU show runner / executive producer Warren Leight has said to TV Guide ; it's possible Connick, Jr. will be with the show after his initial four-episode arc.

He even mentions his father was excited that he get the role of EADA Haden and Connick, Jr. mentions his father was the district attorney in New Orleans, and as he played Haden, he has something else to share with his father ; he also mentions his mother was a judge and his father wanted him in more courtroom scenes on the show.

It has not been confirmed if Connick, Jr. will return to the series in the 14th season.

She directed one of Harry Connick, Jr .' s live performance videos ( The New York Big Band Concert ) in 1992, and she appears in several of his music videos.

King, Barenaked Ladies, James Taylor, Tori Amos and Harry Connick, Jr .; comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and Ron White ; and family shows including Dora The Explorer Live, Bear in The Big Blue House Live, Blue ’ s Clues Live and Thomas & Friends Live.

Connick took his funk music on a tour of the United Kingdom in 1994, an effort that did not please some of his fans, who were expecting a jazz crooner.

Dolphin Tale, directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Nathan Gamble, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman, and Kris Kristofferson, is based on the real-life story of the dolphin Winter, who was rescued from a crab trap in December 2005 and lost her tail, but has learned to swim with a prosthetic one.

The show's title character is the superhero alter ego of geeky sixteen-year-old Dexter Douglas who attends Harry Connick High School.

Fred is later enrolled at the university, befriending Eddie ( Harry Connick Jr .), a man in his 20s who permits Fred to hang out with him.

Major acts who have recorded there include Walter Becker, The Kinks, Arctic Monkeys, Aerosmith, Counting Crows, The Clash, Kings of Leon, Marc Anthony, The B-52's, Tony Bennett, Michael Brecker, Devo, Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Dream Theater, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, Throwing Muses, Serge Gainsbourg, The Strokes, Bryan Adams, Bernadette Peters, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett Trio, Neil Young, Harry Connick, Jr., Iggy Pop, Madonna, Journey, Muse, George Michael, Betty Carter, Sum 41, John Mayer, Moby, Vanessa Williams, Blondie, Porcupine Tree, Chic, Joan Jett, David Bowie, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Rumble Strips, Trey Anastasio, Helix, Kathem Al Saher, Gang Starr, Honor Society, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the band Power Station, which was named after the studio itself.

The patient is now a gay florist David ( Turner ) who was a female jazz singer Melinda ( Mueller ) in a former life, and who falls in love with his psychiatrist, widower Dr. Mark Bruckner ( Connick ).

" Just the Way You Are " is one of Joel's most frequently covered songs, and some well-known musicians who have recorded it over the years include Barry White, Diana Krall, Ahmad Jamal, Shirley Bassey, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Isaac Hayes, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

All voiced themselves on the program ( with the exception of Robyn and Connick, Jr., who voiced Blandi and Big Baby, respectively, in the episode " Rock-a-big Baby ").

In the middle of the thirteenth season, Benson enters into a relationship with a new prosecutor to the district attorney's office, Executive ADA David Haden, portrayed by Harry Connick, Jr., who is also a friend of Hargitay's.

Some of the musicians who appeared on the show included Stephan Grappelli, Harry Connick Jnr and his Big Band, George Benson, ZZ Top, Randy Crawford, Spinal Tap, Buddy Guy, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Tom Jones, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Cleo Lane, Kylie Minogue, Alice Cooper, Dionne Warwick, BB King, Phil Collins.

His father, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Sr., was the district attorney of Orleans Parish from 1973 – 2003.

Songs I Heard won Connick another Grammy for best traditional pop album and he toured performing songs from the album, holding matinees at which each parent had to be accompanied by a child.

" Connick appeared as Grace Adler's boyfriend ( and later husband ) Leo Markus on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.

Connick, a New Orleans native, is a founder of the Krewe of Orpheus, a music-based New Orleans krewe, taking its name from Orpheus of classical mythology.

On April 16, 1994, Connick Jr. married former Victoria's Secret model, Jill Goodacre, originally from Texas, at the St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans.

He continued post-doctoral work with Fallab for a short time before leaving to work at the University of California, Berkeley for two years from 1965 with Robert E. Connick.

* 30, album from 2001 by Harry Connick, Jr.

Chris Connick from De Rosa stated that: Chemikal Underground were a huge influence on my musical tastes when I was growing up.

Then Byron and Gary got a personal call from Harry Connick, Jr., the writer of the song, thanking them for the recording, during which he added a few of his New Orleans Jazz style " very cool man!

Grace married the Jewish doctor Leo Markus, played by Harry Connick, Jr., on November 21, 2002, but the marriage failed when he had a one-night stand with a doctor from the Red Cross while working in Cambodia with Doctors Without Borders.

* Harry Connick, Jr. ( from his 2009 album Your Songs )

32 windows or window groups, dating from 1930 to 1966, were designed by American Charles Connick and his Boston studio.

* Harry Connick Jr. recorded the song on his album Come By Me from 1999.