music, large sized political issues, sex work politics, biographies, global peace, art, writers, beaches, cemetaries, astrology, kinky sexual adventure, poetry, food, prison erotica, minstrels, french and greek.
Music
to hear candyes music go to www.candyekane.com or http://www.myspace.com/candyekaneband or www.itunes.com and click on Blues!!!...Candye loves to listen to etta james, big maybelle, big mama thornton, patsy cline, Dani Wilde, Dave Alvin, the blasters, chet atkins, kitty wells, elton britt, tony bennett, the ramones, TRex, cubanismo, the blasters, rosie flores, iris dement, sue foley, big sandy, big bad shakin, bob brozman, little charlie and the nightcats, toni price, kd lang, reverend billy c wirtz, squeeze, SKA, Blues, Reggae, Soul, Funk, bluegrass, rockabilly, hillbilly, psychobilly.
Movies
the royal tennenbaums, FRIDA, sunset boulevard, rebel without a cause, east of eden, any james dean flick, once upon a time in america, all the godfather movies, period films, woody allen movies when he was funny and not a perv like broadway danny rose, lost in translation, spinal tap, the black orpheus, the triplets of belleville, the court jester, any old movies with eddie cantor or judy garland.
Television
seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, the sopranos, bullshit with penn and teller, 60 minutes and all those crappy news shows.
Books
I, Rigoberta Menchu...this book about the nobel prize winning Guatemalan activist is the best book candye ever read. She loves all biographies and autobiographies...Sylvia Beach and the Lost generation / Literary Paris of the 20's and 30's, Frida by Hayden Herrera, Notorious Victoria by Mary Gilbert, Kitten by Eartha Kitt, Bessie by Chris Andersen, some of my best friends are naked, post porn modernist by annie sprinkle, the butch-femme reader, etc..etc..
Heroes
Candyes biggest heroine is victoria woodhull who ran for president on a ticket with black rights activist fredrick douglass before either had the legal right to vote. victoria felt that women should be allowed to divorce their husbands, own their own property and be multi orgasmic..other heros are emma goldman, memphis minnie, annie sprinkle, margaret sanger, golda meir, carol queen, bessie smith, koko taylor, scarlot harlot, kd lang, natalie barney, sylvia beach, margo st james, john waters.
About me: Candye Kane is an awesome blues singer. This used to be her page but I have taken it over for her because she is so busy with all of her touring, recording projects, her memoir, stage play and most recently her fight with pancreatic cancer. You can find her on her other my space page as shown in the top friends category below. I will maintain this page for candye and send her emails as quickly as I can. Please be advised that she is quite busy and if she doesnt answer right away, she really does appreciate your support and kindness.
Louise
Candye Kane – Still the Toughest Girl Alive
“The Toughest Girl Alive” is the name of Candyes’ original song and the title of her soon to be released memoir and stage play. It is also an apt description of the jump blues singer and songwriter from East Los Angeles who has earned this moniker the hard way. Nominated for a 2008 National Blues Foundation Award for Best Blues Contemporary Female (the highest honor for blues artists) and beating down pancreatic cancer the same year, Kane is one tough cookie. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars, but her path to success was not always glamorous or easy.
Raised in a dysfunctional, blue-collar family, Candye became a teenage mother, a pin up cover girl and a punk rock, hillbilly and blues-belting anarchist by the time she was just 21 years old. Eight cds, six record labels, millions of international road miles and countless awards later, Miss Kane has proven to be a true survivor as she scrambled her way to the top of the roots music heap, creating a world renowned reputation that has spanned two decades.
A colorful mixture of the traditional and the eclectic, Kane cut her musical teeth in the early 80’s onstage with Hollywood musicians and friends, Social Distortion, Dwight Yoakum, Dave Alvin, The Blasters, X, Fear and Los Lobos, to name just a few. While raising two sons, this role model for the disenfranchised, championed large sized women, fought for the equal rights of sex workers and the GLBT community and inspired music lovers everywhere. Her fans are a mixture of true outsiders: bikers, blues fans, punk rockers, drag queens, fat girls, queers, burlesque dancers, porn fans, sex workers, rockabilly and swing dancers, grey haired hippies, sex positive feminists and everyday folk of all ages, flock to see Candye and hear her musical messages of love, hope and empowerment.
Kanes’ live shows are the stuff of legend. She honors the bold blues women of the past with both feet firmly planted in the present. She belts - growls - shouts - croons and moans from a lifetime of suffering and overcoming obstacles. She uses music as therapy and often writes and chooses material with positive affirmations that leave the audience feeling healed and exhilarated. A show that is part humor, revival meeting and sexuality celebration, she'll deliver a barrelhouse-tongue-in-cheek blues tune or a gospel ballad like Jesus and Mohammed, encouraging audiences to leave behind religious intolerance. She’ll slay the crowd with her balls out rendition of Whole Lotta Love or glorify the virtues of zaftig women with 200 pounds of fun. She often says she is a "fat black drag queen trapped in a white woman's body" and she dresses the part. Bedecked in bright colored feathers, sequins and rhinestones, Kane's performance is Mississippi by way of Las Vegas with a quick stopover in San Francisco.
Her last release, (RUF 2007) Guitar’d and Feathered, garnered rave reviews worldwide and earned her a West Coast Songwriting award for Best Original Blues composition. Kane will go into the studio again in 2009, to record her ninth cd for premiere West Coast blues label, Delta Groove. The cd will feature her smoking live band that includes 26 year old guitar virtuoso Laura Chavez, Kanes’ eldest son, Evan Caleb on drums and bass veteran, Paul Loranger. This newest effort will be chock full of the songs of triumph that have made Kane a favorite with enlightened congregations everywhere.
Candye has been included in countless Blues and Jazz Anthologies including the Rolling Stone and Musichounds Guide to Jazz and Blues and Dan Akroyds’ 30 Essential Women of the Blues. In addition to her music successes, she is an activist and philanthropist. In August 2008, she appeared in Cape Town, South Africa for the World Congress for people with disabilities with her United by Music show for special needs kids (www.unitedbymusic.eu). This project provides performance opportunities, blues history lessons and songwriting instruction to young people with disabilities, encouraging them to write their own blues songs to help them overcome their daily challenges.
Candye is a fighter par excellence and her authenticity, determination and optimism are what keep her shows passionate, honest and irresistible. One evening with Candye will keep the crowds happy, hopeful and coming back for more!
Join the jubilation by booking a Candye Kane shindig today!
For Bookings: steve@piedmonttalent.com
www.piedmonttalent.com
PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT CANDYE!
An Older and Wiser blues diva
– All Music guide
A Blues Diva of the 20th century who can liven up any party without shedding a stitch.
- People Magazine
A serious and seriously powerful singer who lays it all on the line
– The Philadelphia Inquirer
Candye Kane has that big, brassy voice that has authority and sass; the kind of thing men like because its seductive and women like because its powerful – BB King to the San Diego Reader
A voice that is a natural wonder – like the Grand Canyon.
- The Washington Post
This tough cookie wails with a rousing confidence and affirmation of identity and the courage of her convictions
– Downbeat Magazine
Candye Kane may identify as a white trash girl but her music is most certainly high class
– Jazz and Blues report
A smart sassy blues diva mama with a powerhouse voice and a generous frame
– Style Weekly
Bawdy, brassy and gloriously omnisexual, the plus sized singer belts out the blues like nobodys business
– Dallas Voice
Kanes sassy singing is a joy to behold
– Montreal Gazette
The Most powerful and entertaining female blues singer of her generation
– Bluesbytes.com
A natural born, supremely gifted vocalist who can sing her humanity while touching ours
– Illinois Blues.com
Candye Kane band shows
1/18 San Diego, Ca/ Anthology/ my future daughter in law Dani Wilde opens for Robben Ford! Don’t miss this show!
1/25 Leucadia, CA/ The Calypso Café Fish House with guest Dani Wilde
1/29 – 2/1 San Diego/ The Diversionary Theater/ The Toughest Girl Alive-stage play/workshop debut http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69987520183
2/6 Phoenix, Az/ The Rhythm Room
2/20 San Diego/ Tio Leos
2/21 San Diego/ Brick by Brick/ Lorna Doone Hamilton Tribute show with Joey Harris, The Farage Brothers, Paul Kamanski and Mojo Nixon
2/22 San Diego/ Dizzys with Sue Palmer/ Janell Rock posthumous CD release party
2/24 San Diego/ Hillcrest Mardi Gras Celebration 7 pm.
2/27 Solana Beach/ Belly Up Tavern happy hour 5:30-8:00
Encinitas private party/ 8:00 – 10 pm
2/28 Dana Point/ The Renaissance
3/7 candye solo/Oakland ca benefit
3/20 leave for Europe for Amsterdam
3/22 Stockholm, Sweden/ The Akkurat
3/23 travel day to helsinki
3/24 and 25 Helsinki, Finland/ Storyville
3/27 Umea, Sweden
3/28 Linkoping, Sweden/Great Jazz Festival
3/29 back to a’dam
3/30-31 off
4/1 travel to Vienna
4/2 Vienna, Austria/ Reigen live
4/3,4 and 5 Hornslet, Denmark/ www.Djursbluesland.dk festival
4/6 back to amsterdam
4/7 drive to basel
4/8 Basel, Switzerland/ Grand Casino
4/9 go to paris
4/10 Paris, France/ Euro Disney/ Billy Bobs
4/13 – 18 Paris, France/ Le Meridien Hotel
4/19 Purmerend, Holland/ TBA
4/20 and 21 UBM workshops/ Holland
4/22 home from europe
5/22 Dallas, Tx/ Pearl at Commerce
5/29 Kansas City/ Knuckleheads
5/30 Eureka Arkansas/ Blues festival
6/4 Omaha, Nebraska/Murphys
6/27 Point Arena, Ca/ Arena Theater
8/15 White Mountain, New Hampshire/ Blues Festival with Dani Wilde
Any time you want to have a chat about some of your views on the world events drop me a line because i have a bone to pick with you on some of your blogs you have posted!! ^.^
P.S. and of course i am a fan of your earlier modelling works and love your music too. and yes added the last bit so i wouldn't come across as a complete cretin!!!
As usual, you razzled and dazzled us as only you can. You Go, Go, Gadget-girl! Thanks for the NRG... 'Stay as sweet as U R and stay in touch. 'Will keep you posted on cruise efforts. Thanks again, everything was kosher with the mail. Right On! Holla, The 'Original Candy Licker Himself...'
Miss Candye...just wanted to wish you a happy birthday a little early, as I won't be in town on Tuesday. You are by far one of the best vocalists I know. Thank you for all the great tunes...and thank you for your breasts! ;) Hugs and kisses... Wayne
