John Lloyd Young

“Young commands one of the best pop voices to come along in decades. When he and the material align, it is a phenomenon that is truly breathtaking. ” — Metrosource

Tony and Grammy Award winner John Lloyd Young originated the role of Frankie Valli in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical and international hit, Jersey Boys.

As Valli, Young garnered unprecedented accolades from New York and national media, including one of the most exciting New York Times reviews ever written for an actor making a Broadway debut. Mr. Young went on to win the Lead Actor Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World Awards, becoming the only American actor in history to win all four Leading Actor awards for a Broadway debut. Mr. Young sings lead vocals on the Platinum, Grammy Award-winning Jersey Boys Original Cast Album and made his West End debut reprising his famous role at London’s Piccadilly Theatre. Young re-created his award-winning Broadway turn onscreen for director Clint Eastwood in Warner Brothers’ film adaptation of Jersey Boys, which premiered across the world in 2014.
Mr. Young has played to sold-out crowds of 17,000-plus as Marius in Les Misérables at the Hollywood Bowl, and he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the White House, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Congress, Lincoln Center, New Year’s Eve in Times Square, the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, Radio
City Music Hall, the New York City Marathon, Feinstein’s in New York, San Francisco, and Indiana, New York’s Cafe Carlyle, Yankee Stadium, Dodgers Stadium, and the Staples Center, and with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marvin Hamlisch, and Pasadena Pops, conducted by Michael Feinstein. He is a former presidentially appointed Member of Barack Obama’s President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. His solo album of classic R&B standards, My Turn… debuted as a five-star-rated Amazon bestseller.
John Lloyd Young’s Broadway: In his signature passionate and thrilling style, Tony and Grammy Award winner John Lloyd Young interprets the spine-tingling, soul-bearing showstoppers that shaped his earliest Broadway aspirations. Young sings from Jersey Boys, The Wiz, Chicago, Hair, Les Misérables and more, along with classics by legendary Broadway writers including Rodgers, Hart, Hammerstein, and Loesser. John Lloyd Young is the Tony and Grammy award-winning star from the Original Broadway Cast of Jersey Boys as well as Clint Eastwood’s Warner Bros. movie adaptation. Young is the only American actor to date to have received all four major Lead Actor honors in a Broadway musical: the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World
Award.