Walt Andrus has delighted millions across North America, Europe, Japan and the high seas since 1988 as the featured vocalist with the One and Only Tommy Dorsey Orchestra directed by Buddy Morrow. He's performed on television, radio and at top venues in the U.S. and abroad, from intimate jazz clubs to the Hollywood Bowl. He's been called "the world's best big band singer" by The Big Band Dancers Society in the U.S. and has generated an International Walt Andrus Society, founded by the president of The Sinatra Society of Scandinavia. Walt studied piano and organ and started playing sax and trumpet with bands at the age of 12. At 17, he began his singing career. After a stint with the Pied Pipers, he joined the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. His tenure with the Dorsey organization has allowed him to hone his craft and has contributed greatly to the band's popularity with both the people from the Big Band era and also the ever-growing new audience just discovering the Big Band sound. He has studied the recordings of those singers who gained fame during the Big Band era such as Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole, Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald and the like. Walt's baritone voice has a hauntingly similar timbre and range as a fellow Dorsey alumnus who became "The Chairman of the Board", Frank Sinatra. Walt doesn't try to imitate Sinatra, but, rather, his goal is to bring the flavor of great songs to an audience, bringing back wonderful memories and creating new ones, as well. While the similarity and influence undeniably exists, Andrus maintains a uniqueness and individuality, which allows him to approach the comparisons on a positive note. "Well, I guess if people are going to compare me to someone, it might as well be the best, and that's Francis Albert", says Walt. While he enjoys all kinds of music, Walt knows his forte vocally, and that is singing the great standards -- the ballads, love songs, and torch and saloon songs. He also performs new music with equal style. Walt is always quick to pay homage to the great songwriters, lyricists, arrangers and musicians. As Andrus points out, "The musicians, the song and the arrangement can make or break a performance". Walt has recorded 2 albums with The Sonny Costanzo Big Band, a solo album entitled "Love's a Song" and has completed an album of standards with The Buddy Morrow Big Band entitled "Swing the Sinatra Way". The PBS special Tommy Dorsey, A Sentimental Journey", features Walt extensively on such Dorsey hits as "The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else", "I'll Never Smile Again", "Marie", Oh, Look At Me Now, and "Without A Song". Musically, Walt feels these are exciting times, and he is quick to point out the growing number of young artists performing his kind music. Particularly with the resurgence of "Swing", a young audience Is coming out in force, discovering music new to them, while the older audience reminisces, glad to hear their favorite songs in the capable hands of Walt Andrus. As he phrases it, "Great music will always be great music &Mac226; no generation gap here!" .