Howard Francis
Howard grew up in South London and started his music career at a young age when he was introduced to the piano at the local gospel church attended by his family. Fully devoted to his playing and singing, it wasn't long before Howard joined the London Community Gospel Choir and from here the session work began to come through. The session work with the LCGC was a springboard in Howard's career, allowing him to network with other musician's already working in the commercial music industry. His career took off following a series of shows with Gloria Gayner before landing a regular gig with Terrence Trent Derby. Following this a long list of opportunities arose including; Westlife, Blue, Five, Van Morrison (Piano + Singing), Micca Paris, Tom Jones, JB Horns (Hammond), Louise Rednapp, Mistiquee, Brian Ferry, and Desiree.
The last few years has been busy time for Howard. Having just finished a series of world tours with the original Pop Idol superstar, Will Young; Howard also just finished touring with one of Irelands most successful boy bands - Westlife, on their 2007 tour.
In 2005 Howard was honoured to play for the Queen at her 80th birthday celebrations with just Will, himself and a Yamaha Concert Grand piano. Although a little nervous from the scale of the event, Howard and Will managed to perform exceptionally for her Majesty.
However, the moment that stand's out to Howard as his biggest, was when he got to play with Andre Crouch. Andre, a legend in the Gospel community has always been an inspiration to Howard so when he came over to England and Howard got the gig you can only imagine how amazing that was for Howard and his family.
