Artists:Candye Kane
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Candye Kane may still be a well-kept mainstream secret but in most underground circles, her diva status is legendary. She has been making music professionally for over two decades and toured worldwide since 1992, performing for amazingly diverse audiences. She played at the French Embassy in Rome for the President of Italy, headlined the Rhythm Riot, a rockabilly and R&B festival in the UK, and belted it out alongside Ray Charles at the Cognac Blues Festival. She slayed em' at the Cannes Film Festival, kept them enthralled at New York Gay Pride and most recently, helped organize a thirteen city tour of the Netherlands for special needs kids.
The mother of two grown sons, one who plays drums in her road band, Candye is a colorful mixture of the traditional and the eclectic. Her background as an L.A. punk rock anarchist and her outspoken activism for the disenfranchised, continue to make her a sought after talk show guest and interview. She composes songs with her history firmly in the spotlight, writing songs that inspire and empower; The Toughest Girl Alive, (soon to be included in a television series for the CW network) Who do you love? It's alright nominated for an OUT music award, 200 Pounds of Fun featured in the motion picture, The Girl Next Door, For Your Love included on an episode of the Chris Isaak show and The Lord was a Woman, recorded by comedienne Judy Tenuta are just a few titles from Candye's abundant catalog of original music.
Kane's bumpy road to success has been a twisted journey of obstacles and adversity.
She survived an extremely dysfunctional childhood, marred by a missing father and a verbally abusive mother who taught her to shoplift at the tender age of nine. Raised in East Los Angeles, Kane became a product of her environment, dabbling in the gang culture and becoming an unwed mother at the age of seventeen. In spite of her rocky beginnings, which included a brief stint in the adult entertainment business, she never lost sight of her desire to sing. She became part of the burgeoning punk rock music scene of the early 80s. A few miles west of her poverty stricken neighborhood, Hollywood was brimming with musical talent. She found herself starting country punk bands and befriending and sharing the stage with musicians as diverse as Fear, Black Flag, Social Distortion, Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs, The Screamin Sirens, Tex and the Horseheads, James Harman,The Circle Jerks, Los Lobos, X, The Bags, The Blasters, The Gears, Lone Justice and Dwight Yoakum.
In 1986, Kane caught the attention of CBS/Epic A&R Head, Larry Hanby. She was signed to a developmental deal and recorded her first demo with Grammy Winner Val Garay. Kane was initially marketed as a country singer but her chance for the golden ring was doomed. CBS dropped her when they found out about her controversial past. Managers and Agents encouraged her to lose weight, renounce her past and basically change everything about herself.
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| Candye Kane on MySpace |
| Candye Kane on Wikipedia |
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Fit, Fat And Fine | Whole Lotta Love | 3:10 | 49 |  22 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Blues / Big band / Dance / Horns / Saxophone / Vocal duo / Happy / Upbeat / Toe tapper / Electric / Band | A Lion In My House | Whole Lotta Love | 2:46 | 37 | 13 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Electric / Blues / Solo vocalist / Harmonica / Dance / Toe tapper | When The Hangover Strikes | Whole Lotta Love | 2:51 | 31 | 12 votes |
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Artist name is|Candye Kane Last played| more than 1 month ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Candye Kane Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
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- Spotlighted: Tuesday, February 7th 2006
- Songs on WWR: 12
- Total plays: 457
- Total requests: 283
- Total listens: 11737
- CDBaby referrals: 0
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