Joe Connelly (musician)

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"Awesome Joe" Connelly (b. 1965) is a successful barbershop quartet lead singer, competition judge, and full-time coach for various barbershop quartets. Connelly gained recent fame for being the first person ever to become a Barbershop Harmony Society International Championship gold medalist three times, first with Interstate Rivals in 1987 at the age of 22, then with Keepsake in 1992 and most recently with PLATINUM in 2000.

A second-generation barbershopper, son of international quartet medalist Mike Connelly, Joe recently returned to live in his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio after many years in Tampa, Florida. He coaches men's and women's barbershop quartets and choruses around the world full-time, becoming one of the few barbershoppers who has managed to turn his hobby into a profession.^[1]

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