Joe
Tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis

Performing for over 20 years and a tribute artist since l996. He is also a singer, songwriter, actor, arranger, engineer and producer. Opening for acts such as The Who, Procol Harum, The Band, Johnny Winter, Poco, Bonnie Tyler, he’s also recorded and published his original songs for established record labels and publishers -- covering everything from rock, metal, rockabilly, pop and new age styles of music.

So, how did he become an impersonator/tribute artist, you may ask! Well -- here’s the story!

Back in the mid-‘90's, Joe was working as the musical director/bandleader at Rock & Roll Heaven, a well-known and very popular Toronto dinner theatre which featured “legends-type” acts. As he says, this was his “first steady gig in a career of one-nighters.” Joe was playing boogie piano for the Elvis impersonator and was hamming it up. The band was off to the side and he was in front, so the audience could see what they were doing. People would come up at the end of the night and say, “You play just like Jerry Lee Lewis. Why don’t you do him in the show?” and then he did.