Biography

  • Favorite female singer: Barbara Streisand
  • Favorite Male Singer: Sinatra, Tony Bennet..Billy Eckstine
  • Dream: All of my books published
  • Favorite food: Anything that I cook
  • Height: About 6'2''
  • Favorite Male Performer: None
  • Favorite Color: Midnight Blue
  • Who and What do you love most: All of my children
  • Favorite drink: Water & Lemonade
  • Favorite men's store: My tailor of thirty years High Society. Los .Angeles.
 

Born in South America and educated in England and the West Indies, Errol Desmond LeBlanc came to America to be an actor (studied in New York).  It was almost impossible to find a part in a movie or stage production that fit the image he could be proud to portray.  To Errol, it seemed that all the acting lessons had gone down the proverbial drain.  It was then it happened; Errol started sitting in at a variety of nightclubs around New York, singing a song here and there.  The actor became a singer!  But not a serious one because the desire to be an actor stayed with him.  Then disco came around and Errol survived by long-term engagements in Tokyo, Japan.

It wasn’t until he played several successful engagements in Tokyo that he started taking his singing seriously, with one CD ‘The True Elegance of Jazz’ doing very well Errol was very pleased with the success of his recording.

As of now Errol has recorded an array of music which can be reviewed on his website.

A singers’ singer, who is considered to be the most elegant performer around today.  He is said to be the most distinguished and best dressed both off and on stage.  He has been complimented by some of the superstars of show business today as being great, with a magnificently controlled voice that is comparable to none.  When you listen to Errol Desmond LeBlanc, you’ll enjoy the warmth he sends everyone’s way.  He is a singer that everyone finds totally entertaining.

Errol has been in business for quite a long time and has enjoyed working with some of the world’s greatest performers—past and present.  Such names have included Sammy Davis Jr., Don Ho, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Englebert Humperdink, The Nicholas Brothers, Frank Sinatra – most of these entertainers mentioned were while Errol was performing in Tokyo, Japan.  In America, Pat Cooper, Jimmy Holiday, Debbie Reynolds, the “real” Coasters,  the Drifters and Manhattans.  While living in Paris, France Errol received a phone call to go to Italy where he substituted for Tony Williams, the first lead singer of the original Platters in Milano at the American Club.

On stage in Tokyo, Japan his special guests were the Pointer Sisters, Juliette Greco and many more.  Errol is considered to be the last true balladeer in the world today.  A true singer of love songs, a dying art.  An artiste of pure elegance.  His rendition of ‘Misty’ got a fair amount of air play as to be compared to Johnny Mathis.   Errol says “One of my dreams is to do a song with Johnny”.  For now it is only a dream.  I am proud to call performers like Lenny Welch, Mel Carter, Dennis Edwards and Steve Rossi and many other top entertainers, my friends.”

Errol’s unique style has created a demand for special command performances in some of the world’s most elegant places.  He is admired by many performers as a true artist of song.  A performer of true elegance, class and finesse.  Errol is said to be the world’s most elegant performer, singer and entertainer with a touch of the greatest.  “Sammy” the charming, yet exciting.  No limitations . . . just class and elegance!

Don’t underestimate Errol Desmond LeBlanc!  In a career that has spanned more than three decades, he has gained world-wide respect working in Tokyo, Japan, Paris, France, London England, Puerto Rico, Germany, Sweden, Bermuda – just to mention a few.

In the early part of his career, the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York was the school of show business.  The Playboy Clubs and every elegant Cabaret, Night Club and Restaurant with entertainment in Southern California.  If you want to get all dressed up for an evening of real entertainment and listen to some real good music, real romance and enjoy what is show business.  What we mean by this is, you will hear some of the songs sung the way they used to be sung.  There is no one else like Errol Desmond LeBlanc!  His music is a true salute to a song.  When you see and hear it, it is “A Salute in Song” to all of us.

Billy Eckstine said to Errol one evening at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California; “Young man, you should sing ‘Sophisticated Lady’ . . . a song he had sung on his show.  And that he did.  It is on Errol’s Jazz CD entitled ‘The True Elegance of Jazz’.  He also got tips from Tony Bennett one night at the Copacabana in New York, and many moons ago another tip from Mr. Erroll Garner, who came in to see Errol while performing with the Karen Hernandez Trio at a very intimate club by the name of Sherrie’s on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles and suggested that he should sing ‘Misty’.  That became his signature song and is in all of Errol’s shows.

One of the most beautiful gifts that was ever given to Errol, he says, was by Debbie Reynolds.  He was planning a concert in Las Vegas and she overheard him speaking with the keyboard player and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse, in her theatre and on her stage.  Another plus in Errol’s career was performing five nights a week, six months a year with a seventeen piece orchestra at The Club El Morrocco in Tokyo, Japan – this has been so far the true highlight of Errol’s career.

Errol says, all of these things were sent to him by an ‘Angel’ that has been with him ever since he got into show business.  His fans and true friends he will always cherish.

Errol’s new CD (Give Me More Than One Caress) is receiving world-wide raves and accolades.


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