‘I’ve Internalized My Mom’: Harry Connick Jr. Shares an Excerpt of His Book ‘Babe,’ In Tribute to Late Mother
Billboard | 25.09.2026 22:00Long before Harry Connick Jr. was a Grammy-winning singer/pianist, his mother, Anita-Francis Livingston Connick — who died when Harry was just 13 — dreamed of her prodigiously talented son one day playing Carnegie Hall. This past spring, on what would have been Anita-Francis’ 100th birthday, Connick made his late mom’s dream come true, playing three nights at the iconic New York concert hall with a three-part orchestral work that traces her life story from New York to Morocco and finally to their home of New Orleans.
