Randy Sings by GaslightHi, I'm Randy Shupp — and I come with a whole band in my pocket.
No, really. When I sing, I sing live to backing tracks, so one minute I've got a full orchestra swelling behind me, the next it's just a piano tinkling along, and the next a guitar strumming while I croon something dreamy like Moonlight in Vermont.
The songs? Only the best ones ever written — Broadway showstoppers and Great American Songbook favorites from Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, and friends. One moment it's Can't Help Falling in Love, the one Elvis Presley made vastly popular, and the next we're off down the Swanee — how I love ya, how I love ya! Love songs, funny songs, songs you'll catch yourself humming along to before you even realize you're doing it.
No orchestra to feed, no band van to park — just me, a microphone, and a pocketful of great music, ready to set up just about anywhere.
Perfect for retirement communities, senior centers, and private parties — anywhere folks still appreciate a good tune, well sung.
To book: Gaslight Productions — 215-805-5777 · [email protected] · PhillyGaslight.com
My Bio:
Throughout my childhood and until I left for college, we spent nearly every Sunday at my maternal grandparents’ home. After a simple yet generous Pennsylvania German meal, we gathered in the living room. My Mammy Barry, Uncle Larry, and mother took turns at the piano—and later the organ—leading us in hymns such as How Great Thou Art and popular songs such as Tammy.My love of singing began with these family gatherings. By the time I was fifteen, my church choir director called me her “little Enrico Caruso.” I did not sing in public again until my senior year of high school. Later, in college, I sang in Cabaret.After college, I didn’t return to organized singing until I joined the New Horizons Glee Club at 58. With the kind encouragement of director Selma Savitz, I became a key soloist. The women in the Glee Club especially loved my interpretations of Broadway songs and would tell me, “Randy, you have to audition for a musical!” One night, I searched Google for musical auditions and found one at Old Academy Players. I’d never heard of the theater, even though it was where Grace Kelly first stepped on a stage.At Old Academy, I was fortunate to meet Don Kawash, a three-time winner of the All-American Ragtime Piano Competition. He later invited me to join a venture he called Gaslight Productions. Until his death in 2014, we performed at retirement communities, churches, synagogues, and a university. After Don died, I began developing Gaslight Productions into the organization he had envisioned, bringing other musical performers to the same venues where we had entertained. 