Horace Heidt, Jr. (October 7, 1946) is an American big band conductor and radio presenter. He began his professional music career at sixteen and led the big band Horace Heidt, Jr. and his Modern Musical Knights, in addition to becoming a lawyer and serving in the U.S. Army Reserves as an officer. In 1982 he took over his father's band and renamed it Horace Heidt Jr. and his Musical Knights, adding the caveat "Jr." to the band named for his father. Heidt, Jr. is also a real estate investor and has been involved in several presidential nomination conventions, including the nominating conventions for Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole. During the 2000s, Heidt, Jr. hosted the radio program America Swings.
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