Does a jazzman’s blues’ joshua boone sing in real life?

Meet the two new stars of Tyler Perry's 'A Jazzman's Blues'.

In , elderly Hattie Mae, visits Johnathan Dupree, the Attorney general of Hopewell , Georgia, who is seeking re-election through his racist political ideologies. Hattie asks him to solve the 40 year old murder of her son, Horace John Boyd, known as Bayou, who was lynched in Hopewell County in She hands Johnathan a collection of letters and tells him all he needs to know he can find in them.

He is about to throw them away when he notices the letters are addressed to a Leanne J. Bayou comes from a family of musicians. His mother, Hattie Mae, is a talented blues singer and his father, Buster, a skilled guitarist. Bayou's older brother, and his father's favorite son, Willie Earl is a natural jazz trumpeter, while Bayou, although a gifted singer, is discouraged from displaying his talent by his abusive father who constantly picks on him and calls him weak and slow.

One day while performing, Buster puts Bayou on the spot and says he has two boys, "one of them is just like me and one of them is not. Now, let's see which one it is. Buster then calls over Willie Earl who skillfully and to the delight of the crowd, effortlessly solos to the song, "If You See My Rooster". Later, Bayou is seen skipping stones down by the river, where he is overheard singing by Leanne Jean Harper.

Yes, Joshua Boone does sing in real life.

Leanne is an educated but outcast girl, whom the townsfolk call Bucket, because of the way her mother dropped her off and skipped town to go north. Bayou is instantly infatuated with Bucket, who demands that she be called by her name Leanne, which Bayou mispronounces, "Lil Ann". Bayou decides to ask Leanne to the town social but discovers her grandfather is very mean and overprotective of her and he threatens to kill Bayou if he ever catches him on his land again.

That night, Leanne writes Bayou a note and folds it into an airplane and flies it through Bayou's open bedroom window. Bayou sneaks out and chases Leanne down to the yew tree.