Biography
Born In: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Sydney James Harcourt was born and raised in Detroit, the unexpected outcome from the chance meeting of a touring jazz pianist and a public school English teacher. Music is in his blood, and eventually his passion and studies in music, dance, and theater led him from Detroit to New York to turn his learning into a living.
He has performed on some of the world’s finest concert stages including Radio City Music Hall, Avery Fischer Hall (with the New York Philharmonic), and Carnegie Hall. He has appeared on and off Broadway starring in productions like the cultural phenomenon HAMILTON and Disney's THE LION KING.
He has done voice work for Netflix's animated show Castlevania Nocturne as the opera countertenor turned night creature Edouard; doing both the speak and singing roles.
A Grammy award winner and sought after New York vocalist who for the better part of the last decade Sydney has been a fixture at most of the legendary ballrooms in New York City including the Rainbow Room, the Plaza Hotel, Gotham Hall, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan, Yale, Harvard, and Lamb's Clubs.
He has built community with other queer musicians and is well respected amongst his Broadway peers and legends.
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