My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

Connick is a practicing Roman Catholic.  6 in Britain. " Connick Jr.

Connick's best selling album in the United States is his 1993 Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas which also is one of the best selling Christmas albums in the United States. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America with 16 million in certified sales.