SINATRA-STYLE SINGER PERRY D’ANDREA

Winner of the 2022 Hoboken My Way Sinatra Sing-Off

For more than 30 years, Perry D’Andrea, a native of Toccoa, GA, has been a musical entertainer. Drawing on his invaluable experiences under the baton and tutelage of award-winning musical conductor Dr. Archie Sharretts (at Stephens County High School) as well as his inspiration from Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band, Perry, as both a high school junior and senior, led a 17-piece jazz swing band, playing trumpet out front.

He began his professional career as a performing musician in 1991 in Athens, GA, co-founding the bands Strange Attractors and Thunder Wamper, primarily playing trumpet and singing on a few select songs.

Residing in San Francisco since the mid-1990’s, D’Andrea spent many years playing trumpet as a sideman in bands such as Kofy Brown Band, Sistas in the Pit, London Street, Knightress M1, and two performances in the Grand Theft Orchestra with Amanda Palmer.

D’Andrea was riveted to the TV as a child whenever Frank Sinatra was on, and he secretly tried to sing like Sinatra for many years, but only when no one else could hear. Fast forward to one night in the summer of 2015, D’Andrea was invited to famed piano bar Martuni’s in San Francisco, where he sang a Sinatra song in public for the first time. That night sparked a new direction for D’Andrea that quickly grew to become his primary profession, rising to the point of his winning the 2022 Hoboken My Way Sinatra Sing-Off, the definitive annual international Sinatra singing competition.

With his show “Perry Sings Sinatra” now in high demand, D’Andrea performs Sinatra shows all across the United States, for every size occasion, from tiny living-room private events, to corporate events and metropolitan-area awards shows.