Member Since: 10/9/2006
Band Website: johnbarr.net
Band Members: "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a GIFT. That's why it's called the present."John's CD's are available from LMLMusic - www.lmlmusic.com &
Dress Circle - www.dresscircle.com /
A Different Corner & Anything Can Happen are also available on iTunes
Influences: Barbra Streisand - this is where it all started for me at the tender age of 12, Liza Minnelli - and continued...you get the picture..., Stevie Wonder, Bernadette Peters, Len Cariou, Michael Rupert, All 3 Members of the Original London Cast of Side By Side By Sondheim - Julia, Milly and David, Robert Preston, Barry Manilow, Joel Grey, Babyface, Peabo Bryson, Nancy Wilson, Martin Smith, Elaine Paige, Patti Lupone, Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davies, Jnr, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Alison Fraser, Ann Hampton Callaway, Brian Lane Green, Nat King Cole, Elaine Stritch, Angela Lansbury, Nancy LaMott, Tony Bennett, Julie Wilson, Barbara Cook, Anthony Newley & Judy Garland.FAV SINGERS -
Conner Reeves, Matt Monroe, Terence Trent D'Arby, George Michael, Brian Kennedy, Jennifer Holliday, Sam Harris, Idina Menzel, Shoshana Bean, Lee Lessack, Mariah Carey, Oleta Adams, Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, Carleen Anderson, Shirley Bassey, Jack Jones, Luther Vandross, David McAlmont, Eric Benet, Diana Schuur, Jocelyn Brown, Eva Cassidy, Billy Porter, Yolanda Adams, Sandi Patti, Ann Hampton Callaway, Diana Krall, Linda Eder, Matt Monroe, Pink & Mary Martin.FAV COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS -
Stephen Schwartz, John Bucchino, Jason Carr, Stephen Sondheim, The Gershwins, Johnny Mercer, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Harold Arlen, Jule Styne, Leonard Bernstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart, Gilbert & Sullivan, Jason Robert Brown, Laurence O'Keefe, William Finn, Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse & John Kander & Fred Ebb.FRIENDS WITH GREAT VOICES -
Alison Jiear, Frances Ruffelle, Jenna Russell, Stephen Schwartz, Catherine Porter, Glyn Kerslake, Nina Ferro, Linzi Hateley, Rebecca Storm, Deven May, Rebecca Vere, Maria Friedman, Clare Burt & Maurey Richards. But watch out for the 'up and coming' Eliza Doolittle, just LoVe her Voice and Songs.FAV SHOWS -
Sweeney Todd, Evita, Wicked, March of the Falsetto's, Side By Side By Sondheim, Falsettoland, In Trousers, Into The Woods, Once on This Island, Peg, Ragtime, Blues in the Night, Company, Flora, The Red Menace, On The 20th Century, Tap Dance Kid, Sunday in the Park With George, Pacific Overtures, Pippin, The Bakers Wife, Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Little Night Music, Les Miserables, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Smokey Joe's Café, Godspell & Dreamgirls.
Sounds Like: Me - I think, Well I hope so anyway LOL
Record Label: Dress Circle / LMLMusic
Type of Label: None