Harry Connick Jr.'s Irish American father - a lawyer, judge and district
attorney - also ran a record store and Harry first started playing piano at the
age of three, appearing on stage for the first time at five. At the age of nine
he performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 with the New Orleans
Symphony Orchestra and then duetted with the great pianist Eubie Blake, playing
I'm Just Wild About Harry. His breakthrough came in 1989 when he played various
standards on the soundtrack of the rom-com movie When Harry Met Sally, followed
by his screen debut in Memphis Belle t...