Shawn Klush
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Shawn Klush is an American singer, known for impersonating Elvis Presley. Born and raised in Pittston, Pennsylvania, Klush has performed in a number of Elvis impersonator contests.
Early Career
He performed in the famous Poconos region followed by a tour of Canada where he entered and won the $5,000.00 prize in the “Worldwide Elvis Competition” in Montreal. This caught the attention of the award winning Las Vegas show, “Legends in Concert” where in 2004 he starred as ‘Elvis’ in their Branson MO. production. He also alternated in their Las Vegas and Atlantic City show rooms. Each January he stars in the “Elvis Birthday Tribute Tour”, an Elvis extravaganza with Elvis’ own musicians, singers, and closest friends, in major venues in multiple cities.
Recordings
Shawn has recorded 2 CDs and performed with Elvis’ closest friends, musicians and singers such as JD Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, The Jordanaires, DJ Fontana, Charlie Hodge, Myrna Smith, The Sweet Inspirations and Joe Esposito.
Competitons
Aswell as winning the “Worldwide Elvis Competition” in Montreal mentioned earlier, on Jan 6th 2005, just 2 days before Elvis’ 70th Birthday, Shawn became grand champion at the $25,000.00 “World Elvis Tribute Artist Competition”. This year he received “The Peoples Choice Award” from Gibson Guitar in Nashville as “Best Concert Elvis”. Shawn was recently named the international champion of BBC1’s World’s Greatest Elvis competition in the United Kingdom. In August, Shawn was chosen by Graceland as the winner of Elvis Presley Enterprises’ first ever Ultimate Tribute Artist Contest in Memphis TN.
'World's Greatest Elvis'
'World's greatest Elvis' was a 2 part live show on BBC1 presented by Vernon Kay in September 2007. The audience panel of expert judges and the studio audience voted and Shawn Klush won the competition. He finished the entire show with 'The Wonder of You'.