Christian Seaborn

Christian's first brush with the entertainment business came in his native Portland, Oregon when he was eight years old. Having fallen in love with Louis Armstrong's version of Hello, Dolly, when the famed jazz artist Armstrong came to perform in Portland in the summer of 1965 Christian's mother arranged for him to meet his boyhood idol after the show. This resulted in an impromptu rendition of him singing Hello, Dolly with Satchmo (Mr. Armstrong's nickname). On the advice of another famous entertainer, Bing Crosby (whom had known Christian's paternal grandparents in Tacoma, Washington decades earlier), Christian then did every theater opportunity he could lay his hands on through grade school, junior high, high school and college. (Crosby's advice had been to get a resume together before coming to Hollywood.) By the time Christian landed in Hollywood in June of 1976 he was armed with a resume of some 40 live theater productions in the states of Oregon, Washington and Massachusetts.