ELVIS TRIBUTE ARTISTS

Oliver Steinhoff (GER)
 

Emotional, powerful and rousing:
With Oliver Steinhoff, "ELVIS - His Life In Music" has one of the world's "best Elvis actors" in the leading role! It confirms its quality every year with awards (in the USA, Canada, England etc.) as "BEST ELVIS".
Experience a piece of music history with Oliver Steinhoff, whose voice sounds so deceptively real that it seems almost unbelievable not to see the real ELVIS in front of you!
According to John Wilkinson, a longtime collaborator and guitarist of Presley, Oliver Steinhoff is arguably "the BEST Elvis actor since Elvis."
As the only EUROPEAN Elvis actor to date, he has won the following VERIFIABLE awards;

- Grand Elvis Champion Tweed 2022 (CAN)
- HL2020 Grand Elvis Champion Bristol 2020 (UK)
- King Of Britain - Elvis Champion Wakefield 2019 (UK)
- Elvis Champion Bridlington 2019 (UK)
- TRIPLE Grand Elvis Champion Toronto 2018 (CAN)
- EUROPEAN “Grand Elvis Champion” Birmingham 2017 (UK)
- Grand Elvis Champion Tweed 2016 (CAN)
- Grand Elvis Champion Collingwood 2016 (CAN)
- Best International Elvis Porthcawl 2015 (UK)
- Grand Elvis Champion Penticton 2014 (CAN)
- Best Las Vegas Elvis Porthcawl 2012 (UK)
- Elvis Campion Las Vegas 2011 (USA)
- EUROPEAN "Grand Elvis Champion" Blackpool 2007 (UK)

There are many Elvis impersonators, - actors, - doubles, but only ONE with these international verifiable references.



Video: "I've Lost You"; German Elvis Festival 2022
Video: "Bridge over Troubled Water"; German Elvis Festival 2022



Bill Cherry (USA)
 
What separates the cream of the crop from all those who attempt to pay homage to the King?
Come see Bill Cherry, who marvelously performs as Elvis for Legends and you will find out first hand.

Having grown up listening to the King, Elvis was Bill’s first inspiration. As a child, Bill would avidly watch all of Elvis’s movies and listen to his records. And when he wasn’t listening to Elvis, or the other greats of the time—like the Beatles or Johnny Cash—Bill was honing his own vocal skills. Singing along with his father, Bill’s home grown musical talent has now taken him far and wide.

Paying homage to the king since 1989, Bill is absolutely one of the best Elvis tribute artists in the business. For Bill it’s not enough to sing, act and dance like the King, he even drives the same car as him—a Stutz Blackhawk (one of which can be seen at Graceland). His career has led him to perform with many of the same bands who backed Elvis, like the Jordaniers, the Sweet Inspirations, DJ Fontana, and members of J. D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet.

He has received many awards and accolades for his spot-on renditions. Prior to winning in Memphis, Bill took first place at the 2009 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Preliminaries in Tupelo, Mississippi. This back-to-back win proved historic as it was the first time any Elvis Tribute Artist won the title of Ultimate at both the birthplace and the hometown of Elvis Presley in the same year. He’s been honored by Time Magazine, as one of the top Elvis Tribute artist, and has also won The Heart of the King award in Las Vegas at the Hilton where Elvis performed for several years. While Bill never met the King, he’s doing fabulous work of maintaining his legacy, and impressing audiences at every one of his performances.


Video: "Long Tall Sally" Bill Cherry, Harbor Lights 2023
Video: "An American Trilogy" Bill Cherry, Elvis Weekend Luxemburg 2022



David Lee (USA)
 
David Lee, from Birmingham, Alabama, is now celebrating his 20th year in the Elvis Entertainment Business.
His show is one of the most authentic, most professional shows around. It is done with the utmost class and respect for Elvis and suitable for any age group. David Lee is a dynamic performer with an outstanding voice and has been performing his tribute to Elvis since 1995 throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico and on the high seas.
David Lee was named by Elvis Presley Enterprise the 2015 ULTIMATE Elvis. This is the highest honor one can achieve paying tribute to the late, great King of Rock n Roll. David Lee is a two time World Champion as he is also won Doc Franklin’s Original International Images of the King in 2004, he was voted the 2004 People’s Choice and he is the CANADIAN GRAND CHAMPION ~ Professional Division Concert Years World’s Largest Elvis Festival Collingwood Ontario July 2004. Furthermore, he is the CANADIAN GRAND CHAMPION Brantford, Ontario Elvis Fest 2001.
David Lee is proud to be the first performer at the new auditorium at the Elvis Presley Birthplace in May 2013.
He portrays some of the live footage of Elvis in Duke & The King. A documentary which reveals the compelling story of Elvis Presley’s former bass player, Duke Bardwell. The World Premiere was April 22, 2012.
There are numerous accolades adding to David Lee’s long list of prestigious awards, David Lee won the Gospel Competition in July 2014 at the Collingwood Elvis Festival. It’s the World’s Largest Elvis Festival held in Ontario Canada. Also, David Lee was a Triple Crown winner (People’s Choice, 70’s Pro and Gospel) at the Lake George, NY Elvis Festival, in June 2014. He was the first person in the 11 year history of this contest to win all three categories plus have the overall top score.
He considers it an extreme honor to perform to fans and people who really love Elvis as he does. He hopes that in closing you will feel a taste of what it was like to watch Elvis in concert.
David Lee has become well known across North America. He is a “World Class-Award Winning” Entertainer, with numerous successful performances/appearances to his credit including TV appearances on the “Ricki Lake Show” and the hit show “Insomniac”.
Elvis is gone and irreplaceable but David Lee’s tribute hopes to do him justice.

Video: "Unchained Melody" David Lee, Semi Finals Elvis Ultimate 2015



Jay Dupuis (USA)
 
Jay was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he spent most of his childhood.
Growing up in a house where his father was a professional musician made it very easy for Jay to follow in his dads footsteps. It was no surprise that Jay had an ear for music but, at the early age of three, his mom put on a record of Elvis Presley singing ‘Hound Dog’. As he listened, his eyes lit up and his hips started to move as he smiled with excitement. Begging his mom to play it over and over, Jay became a huge fan of the King of Rock ‘n Roll. Shortly after, Jay would put on performances for his parents, family and friends at social gatherings. “I would put on white pants and a white dress shirt to mimic a jumpsuit, flip up my collar, pretend I was the King and put on a show in my parents living room. I was never shy.” When Jay wasn’t imitating Elvis, he was doing extensive studio work, surrounded by professional musicians, or on stage performing in front of live audiences. Elvis has always been one of the biggestinfluences in his life and entertaining career, he can’t remember a time where he wasn’t an Elvis fan. Jay has read extensively about Elvis’ life, studying Elvis’ performances, movies and singing style. Jay’s performances aren’t so much as an impersonation, but a ‘complete tribute to Elvis’. He will take you back to the rockabilly days of Elvis from the Louisiana Hayride to The Ed Sullivan Show. He will also make your heart throb when he relives the raw sexuality of the 1968 Comeback Special in the infamous black leather. You will also revisit the legendary Vegas years of the 1970’s, as Jay recreates the performances that made Elvis the one and only ‘King of Rock n’ Roll’. “That was the height of his career, with all the jumpsuits, rhinestones and studs,” he said. Like the real Elvis, Dupuis is a humble guy – so he doesn’t like to toot his own horn. “My performance answers your questions. I don’t need to brag or boast,” he said. Jay is resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but he loves any opportunity to travel and meet new Elvis fans. With a determination to be the best he can be, Jay is always looking for new ways in which to provide fans the excitement and the thrill of the music of the artist he pays tribute to. His southern form and captive charm coupled with his uncanny sound and presence will make you feel as if you are watching the King himself, he brings all the electrifying magic of Elvis to the stage. His vocal ability, incredible likeness, and natural charisma have made him one of the foremost, greatest Elvis Tribute Artists of all time.
Jay considers being a tribute artist a ‘true blessing’.

Video: "Just Pretend" Jay Dupuis, 2019 Tupelo Elvis Festival
Video: "The Wonder Of You" Jay Dupuis, 2019 Tupelo Elvis Festival



Louis Brown (UK)
 
Louis began singing and performing the King's music in May 2021 and has very quickly fallen in love with his work.
In September 2022, Louis entered his first ever competition - The Best Elvis, Porthcawl - and came out as the winner, and soon after, in November 2022, won the Return To Memphis competition in Blackpool. Louis then entered the "European Elvis Championships" in January 2023, and got voted the "People's Choice" winner as well as reaching the top 5 in his first ever European Championships. Shortly after in February, Louis also entered the prestigious "Harbor Lights" competition and took great pride in earning 3rd place in his debut at this competition in Weston Super Mare. Since February, Louis has also place 2nd in the “King of The Castle” competition in Blackpool and 2nd in The “Tupelo Elvis Festival” in his first ever time singing in the USA.


Video: "Hold my Hand" Louis Brown, Juan Lozano/Scotland 2023
Video: “Such a Night” Louis Brown, Scottish Elvis Festival 2023