Moray Innes
Overview
- Frank Sinatra tribute act
- Solo with professional backing tracks or piano
- Can also be booked to play with a quartet up to a big band.
Price Range
Prices range from £450 to £5500
About
Moray Innes was born on 11th April 1964 in Edinburgh, attended Ainslie Park School and it is here he discovered his musical talents, first on clarinet then saxophone. While Moray was growing up, he was greatly influenced by his father‘s passion for the music of Jolson, Sammy Davis Jnr, Dean Martin and Sinatra. Their music inspired him to follow a career in music.
On leaving school, Moray studied music privately and spent most of his teens playing in funk, soul and rock bands in search of the elusive record deal. Successes at this time included many live television appearances and invites on radio stations.
When Moray reached 28 years old, he joined the Army as a musician and became principal saxophonist in the Band of the Black Watch, laterally the Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. It was in the early days of Moray‘s military career, while based in Hong Kong that he was encouraged to use and develop his singing ability. Keen to extend his repertoire, Moray took the gamble and began to introduce some Sinatra Big Band charts to instant positive response! People began to remark how similar Moray‘s voice was to Sinatra‘s. Buoyed by this enthusiasm, he continued to sharpen and build up his act and has performed twice in the space of a year, with the Scottish Festival Orchestra at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall to capacity audiences.
Now that Moray has completed his career in the Forces, he is fully commited to promoting big band music and do his bit to keep Sinatra‘s music live. He was once asked why he emulates a dead guy; his reply is as follows: in recent years, Frances Albert Sinatra’s music has been recognised as classic, something that was given to the world and is here to stay, just as surely as Mozart or Beethoven. Why are there so many Elvis‘s, Dean Martins, Sammy Davis‘s and Francis Albert Sinatras? It’s because the public want the live experience; there‘s nothing like live music and unfortunately the Greats aren‘t here anymore to give it to us. The best we can do is to tastefully attempt to recreate a piece of the magic they gave to us.
Moray is now based in Edinburgh and is open to travel and perform his unique Sinatra set with a quartet, big band or just a piano player.
Where are they based?
Moray is based in Edinburgh but regularly plays across Scotland the rest of the UK
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Sample Set List
Set 1
Lady Is A Tramp
Got You Under My Skin
Have You Met Miss Jones
Witchcraft
They Cant Take That Away From Me
Mac The Knife
Strangers In The Night
Fly Me To The Moon
A Very Good Year
One For My Baby
You Make Me Feel So Young
Set 2
Come Fly With Me
I've Got The World On A String
Me And My Shadow
Nice And Easy
Summer Wind
Bad Leroy Brown
For Once In My Life
New York New Yor
My Way
Thats Life
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