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Genre: Blues / Jazz / Rockabilly
Location oceanside, United States
Profile Views: 537149
Last Login: 4/14/2012
Member Since 6/2/2005
Website www.candyekane.com
Record Label www.deltagroove.com
Type of Label Indie
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Candye Kane has been called a survivor, a superhero and the toughest girl alive. (All are also titles of her self-penned songs.) Kane is a 2012 nominee for Two National Blues Awards (www.blues.org) for BB King Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Blues Female. These are Kanes' seventh nominations. Her eleventh CD release, Sister Vagabond on Delta Groove Records is called her best work by the All Music Guide. Produced by Kane and her noted guitarist Laura Chavez - (called Kanes secret weapon because of her scorching and understated use of her vintage red strat) - Look for another release at the end of 2012 by these two dynamo sisters. The jump-blues singer, songwriter and mother of two from East Los Angeles has nabbed ten San Diego Music Awards and starred in a sold-out stage play about her life. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars. She will undergo a second surgery for a recurrence of her neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles on April 27, 2012. Keep her in your prayers! But her path to success was not always glamorous or easy. Raised in what she calls a dysfunctional blue-collar family, Candye became a mother, a pinup cover girl and a punk-rock, hillbilly blues-belter by the time she was just 21 years old. Ten 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 '80s onstage with Hollywood musicians and friends Social Distortion, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, Los Lobos, The Blasters, X, Fear and the Circle Jerks, 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, gray-haired hippies, sex-positive feminists and everyday folk of all ages. In 1986, then married to Thomas Yearsley of the Paladins, she was touched by the music of Big Maybelle, Big Mama Thornton, Ruth Brown and more. Her self-released 1991 Burlesque Swing caught the ear of Texas impresario Clifford Antone, who signed her to a deal with Antone's Records. Los Lobos' Cesar Rosas and Paladin/Hacienda Brother/Stone River Boy Dave Gonzalez co-produced the first album of the deal, Home Cookin'. Picked up by Discovery (later Sire) Records, the Dave Alvin/Derek O'Brien-produced Diva La Grande was followed by Swango in the height of the swing craze. Rounder/Bullseye Records signed her in 1995, releasing The Toughest Girl Alive, produced by Scott Billington. Four albums followed on the German RUF label, including the Bob Margolin-produced Guitar'd and Feathered. She then pacted with her current label, Delta Groove, releasing Superhero in 2010 and now Sister Vagabond in 2011. Her full-time, 250-days-a-year touring schedule started in 1992. And today, Kane's 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. In a show that is part humor, part revival meeting and party sexuality celebration, she'll deliver a barrelhouse-tongue-in-cheek blues tune or a gospel ballad, 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. Kane has been included in countless blues and jazz CD anthologies including Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide and Musichound: Blues, The Essential Album Guide and Dan Aykroyd's 30 Essential Women of the Blues. She appeared on the influential call-to-arms of Southern California roots music, A Town South of Bakersfield on Enigma Records, alongside Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakam. In addition to her musical achievements, Kane has become an activist and philanthropist in recent years. In August 2009, she appeared in Dublin, Ireland for the World Congress for Downs Syndrome with her United by Music charity http://www.unitedbymusic.eu The 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. A fighter par excellence, Candye has an authenticity, determination and optimism that keep her shows passionate, honest and irresistible. "I take things one day at a time and today I am feeling great and very optimistic about my new CD," Kane says. It's been awesome to write and co-produce again with my guitarist Laura Chavez. I am grateful for every chance I get to make music live, or in the studio. Most people are given only three months to live after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis and four years later, I am still here. So any opportunity I have to create music makes me humbled and grateful. "People ask me why I want to work so hard and so much, since I tour 250 days a year. Everyone says I should stay home and relax after my health struggle. But music is my life and neuroendocrine cancer is a mostly manageable disease. I will continue to work as much as I can because I know life is fragile anyway. I would be fine if I died onstage doing what I love like Country Dick Montana or Johnny Guitar Watson. I'm not planning on going anytime soon, but when I do exit this plane, I hope it's making someone else feel inspired by the powerful words in my songs." People are talking about Candye! .... A Blues Diva of the 20th century who can liven up any party without shedding a stitch. - People Magazine .... A true celebrity diva - New Yorker Magazine .... This tough cookie wails with a rousing confidence, affirmation of identity, the courage of her convictions and wisdom beyond her years. – Downbeat Magazine .... A serious and seriously powerful singer who lays it all on the line – The Philadelphia Inquirer .... A voice that is a natural wonder – like the Grand Canyon. - The Washington Post .... 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 .... If you haven't taken Candye Kane seriously before, now is the time to listen. This is a great album and the best of her career. - Richard Ludmerer/ Blueswax .... Laura Chavez is not just a rising star. She's already arrived. - Vintage Guitar Player Magazine .... An Older and Wiser blues diva – All Music guide .... 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 .... 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 .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... -
Members
........ .. ...... .......... .... On guitar the amazing laura devil baby chavez, on bass the legendary Kennan Shaw, on drums Baldhead Fred Rautmann. I am blessed to be surrounded by creative and wonderful people whom I love! My band is my family. -
Influences
etta james, wanda jackson, big maybelle, dinah washington, the cramps, patsy cline, exene cervenka, divine, big mama thornton, koko taylor, janis martin, kitty wells, sister rosetta tharpe, eartha kitt, sophie tucker, mae west, mahalia, bessie smith, janis joplin, little esther, bobbi brat, elton britt, lou ann barton, willie dixon, memphis minnie, led zeppelin, heart, zz top... -
Sounds Like
etta james, big mama thornton, mildred bailey, big maybelle, koko taylor, janis joplin, billie holliday, dinah washington and patsy cline. .... .... .. ..Candye's other sites:.... ...... .. ...... .. ...... .. ...... .. ......
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" 12 days till my surgery at cedars sinai. wish me luck."
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- candye kane1 month ago
12 days till my surgery at cedars sinai. wish me luck.
- candye kane1 month ago
getting stronger for my surgery on april 27, 2012 at cedars sinai in los angeles. keep all those healing thoughts and prayers coming my way!
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" getting stronger for my surgery on april 27, 2012 at cedars sinai in los angeles. keep all those healing thoughts and prayers coming my way!"
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- candye kane1 month ago
12 days till my surgery at cedars sinai. wish me luck.
- candye kane1 month ago
getting stronger for my surgery on april 27, 2012 at cedars sinai in los angeles. keep all those healing thoughts and prayers coming my way!
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Candye Kane cancer benefit at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Baeach
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- candye kane1 month ago
12 days till my surgery at cedars sinai. wish me luck.
- candye kane1 month ago
getting stronger for my surgery on april 27, 2012 at cedars sinai in los angeles. keep all those healing thoughts and prayers coming my way!
- candye kane9 months ago
is getting ready for the NY Fringe Festival with my stage play the Toughest Girl Alive and embarking on a six week tour to promote our new cd Sister Vagabond available aug 16th on delta groove records
- John Lemke9 months ago
Like wow can you belt it out. I bet you can blast windows out with that voice. Going to play "superhero" on my Pick of the Day podcast on Monday 1 August... It is Spiderman Day!
- Max meets Lenny10 months ago
Just stopped to wish you a nice weekend.
You are always welcome to visit us.
Your friends from Germany. - Fred-Val10 months ago
Hi Candye,
Did I say a BIG THANK you for your amazing concert in Weinheim, Germany?
I was so glad to be there and hear you on stage. What can I say? You're an incredible woman with so much energy and you give so much on stage!
I couldn't sleep after your show, even If I had a 2 hours drive back home. I was electrified! Thank you so much for coming to Germany. I'd like to see you one more time - maybe in Franzis (in Wetzlar - a great music club).
Take care and have a lots of fun further on with your band on stage.
Big hug from Wetzlar
Val (Fred & Val)- candye kane1 month ago
thank you so much!
- christie jo klump11 months ago
hello ! i do hope that you sometimes read these fan thingies or even get little messages from assistants. my brother took a great class on blues women last semester. i actually begged him to let me write one of his papers because he got to choose between several and you were one. needless to say as busy as he was with work and school he let me, but, made his own contributions. you are a phenomenal inspiration to me. you have an amazing spirit. im disabled , and theres something about certain music that empowers me. yours that for me. all i can say is thank you for sharing your talent, strength, beauty, and spirit. much love many blessings to you and yours!
- candye kane1 month ago
thank you sweetheart!
- Jenny Lee11 months ago
Great to see you and meet you at the Caveau! I wish you a European tour full of beautiful surprises!!!! Thanks for the inspiration.
- candye kane1 month ago
thanks so much. what a great night that was!
- candye kane1 year ago
Super busy recording a new cd for Delta Groove ( my 11th cd and 2nd for them) with my co producer, LAURA CHAVEZ. street date AUG 16th!
- Mike PZ and The Associa…1 year ago
wow.....u have dave gonzales, mitch kashmar, laura chavez, and the saint kid ramos on your last record...whew :)
- candye kane1 month ago
im a lucky broad!
CANDYE KANE
Candye Kane – Still the Toughest Girl Alive
Sister Vagabond is the title of Candye's latest CD for Los Angeles based label, Delta Groove records. But the jump blues singer and songwriter from East Los Angeles has been called the toughest girl alive, a super hero and a fighter bar none. She has earned these monikers the hard way. She will undergo her second surgery on April 27th, 2012 for pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles. Nominated for seven National Blues Foundation Awards and now nominated for 2012 BB King Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Blues Female (www.blues.org) Kane remains a favorite on blues, jazz and rockabilly stages around the world. http://www.blues.org Kane is one tough cookie. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars but her path to success was never 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. Ten 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. With her sidekick and best friend Laura Chavez laying down scorching, tasteful leads with humility and intelligence, these two curvy gals are a refreshing, sexy feast for the ears and the eyes. 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.
Kane’s eleventh CD release, Sister Vagabond debuted at number three on the Billboard Blues Charts. The cd continues to receive amazing reviews worldwide. It was produced by Kane and 27 year old guitar virtuoso, Laura Chavez who also plays in Candyes live band. It has been called the best CD of Kane's career by the All Music Guide and Chavez had been called a "star who has already arrived" by Vintage Guitar Magazine. Laura's mastery over her red vintage strat makes her a blues guitarist to be reckoned with and fans around the world will attest that Chavez really is Kane's secret weapon.
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 2009, she appeared in Dublin, Ireland for the World Congress for Downs Syndrome with her United by Music charity http://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
Radio and print promotions: Jody Best/ Delta Groove Records Deltagroove1@earthlink.net
People are talking about Candye!
A Blues Diva of the 20th century who can liven up any party without shedding a stitch. - People Magazine
A true celebrity diva - New Yorker Magazine
This tough cookie wails with a rousing confidence, affirmation of identity, the courage of her convictions and wisdom beyond her years. – Downbeat Magazine
A serious and seriously powerful singer who lays it all on the line – The Philadelphia Inquirer
A voice that is a natural wonder – like the Grand Canyon. - The Washington Post
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
If you haven't taken Candye Kane seriously before, now is the time to listen. This is a great album and the best of her career. - Richard Ludmerer/ Blueswax
Laura Chavez is not just a rising star. She’s already arrived. - Vintage Guitar Player Magazine
An Older and Wiser blues diva – All Music guide
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
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
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