Louis Hoover

In 1999, Louis put together the musical “The Rat Pack” which played to packed houses in London’s West End for three and a half years.
Starring in the lead role of Frank Sinatra, Louis travelled through Europe and the US with the touring version for several years.

Louis grew up in Willesden in North London and first heard Sinatra sing when he came across one of his records in his big sister’s bedroom in the 1960s.  He admits that, until then, he had thought the star was just an actor.    But swing was now, well and truly, in his life and the Sinatra style was beginning to hugely influence his own singing.

He made his parents take him to see Frank in concert three times and he already had a hint of his destiny.  In the 1980s Louis went to stage school planning a career as a stand-up comedian, took on some TV drama roles and then realised music was his first love. He joined the pop group “Wall Street Crash”, who went on to have 11 hit albums and a number one hit in the US. But he realised swing and jazz would always be his first love and took his fate in his own hands by putting together his show “Salute to Sinatra”, touring the U.K. and Ireland.  Soon he was selling out venues like the London Palladium and the Royal Albert Hall.