- Title: USA: Actor-musician Christian Kane debuts solo country album
- Date: 14th December 2010
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 13, 2010) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHRISTIAN KANE, MUSICIAN AND ACTOR, SAYING: "We are unfortunately fortunate that the economy is the way that it is because we take advantage of that on that show because we're the ones punching people in the face and I think they want to sit there in the living room and watch us do that to their boss or do that to a corrupt insurance company or something like that, so that's why it's successful I think. And you know, we did a country music episode where I sang my song and we had the highest ratings in the history of leverage, so that right there just tells you that it's the working man and the working woman. It's the country music listener, you know what I mean. It's a blue-collar show."
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- Story Text: Hollywood star Christian Kane is enjoying the best of both worlds.
When he's not fighting crime in the TNT action show Leverage, the Texas native is promoting his new solo country album titled "The House Rules."
"I make a living as an actor right now. Hopefully, I will be able to make a living as a musician, but I'm a professional liar," Christian Kane told Reuters. "Country music is actually telling the truth and it's very important. That's why you're not going to hear me sing songs about being on a tractor, being married or anything like that because I don't know anything about that. All these songs on this album, even the ones that I didn't write had to relate to me and I had to be telling the truth when I sang them."
The album might come as a shock to fans of the 36-year-old actor, but country music was how Kane got his start.
The singer/songwriter auditioned for the MGM series Fame L.A. in 1997 with Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Cars.' And to pay homage to his humble beginnings, he chose the song as one of the album's tracks.
But it came as no surprise to fans of his country-southern group 'Kane', otherwise known as 'Kaniacs.'
"This is bigger," the musician admits. "We're serious about it now and it's just the best feeling in the world."
Despite his pursuits to make it big in the country music scene, Kane wouldn't want to surrender his opportunity to act. The two fields even have a few things in common.
Kane stars alongside actor Timothy Hutton in Leverage, a show about a band of criminal misfits fighting the injustices of the world.
"We did a country music episode where I sang my song and we had the highest ratings in the history of Leverage," Kane said. "So that right there just tells you that it's the working man and the working woman. It's the country music listener, you know what I mean. It's a blue-collar show."
Balancing both isn't easy, but it's a dream-come-true for Kane.
"I'm still the little the little 15-year-old kid that prayed on the side of his bed that this would happen to him," Kane says with a smile. "So you just do it."
"The House Rules" is available now.
Kane will be touring the new album into the Spring. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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