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Actors you didn't know were also musicians
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HK's Nicholas Tse also..
Jeff Goldblum
Goldblum often delights with his acting chops or his interview appearances. Nobody brings the quirk to sitting on a talk show couch like Goldblum. However, the “Jurassic Park” star is also a jazz pianist. He and his backing band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, have now released two jazz albums.
Scarlett Johansson
Before Johansson was subsumed into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Black Widow, she tried her hand at music. Way back in 2008, when she was still fairly early in her career, Johansson released the album “Anywhere I Lay My Head.” What made this a particularly unusual album is that 10 of the songs on it are Tom Waits covers. Yes, Scarlett Johansson released a Tom Waits cover album. No, their voices don’t sound similar.She is half funked actress and lousy singer
Keanu Reeves
No, we aren’t talking about Wyld Stallyns, the band Reeves’ Ted Logan is a member of in the “Bill and Ted” movies — you know, the band whose music unites the universe in peace. That’s too lofty a standard to hold the alt rock band Dogstar to. Reeves was the bass player in that band, which gave the quartet some added attention.
Russell Crowe
Crowe has won an Oscar, and he’s appeared in many hit films. In fact, he starred in back-to-back Best Picture winners in “Gladiator” and “A Beautiful Mind.” However, Crowe has been a musician for as long as he’s been an actor. In the ‘80s he formed a band called Roman Antix, which became a band called 30 Odd Feet of Grunts. The Australian served as the frontman for the rock band.
Billy Bob Thornton
Thornton’s music career got a little bit of attention a few years ago but not for a great reason. He was being interviewed on the radio and got angry when he was asked questions about his film career, as opposed to his music. Thornton released four solo albums in the 2000s, but since then he has been a member of a group called The Boxmasters, whom Thornton was trying to promote.
Bruce Willis
There is a certain segment of the population that is aware of Willis’ music career but mostly because people like to poke fun at it. Before he had taken off as a huge movie star, Willis tried his hand at music as well. In 1987, he released the album “The Return of Bruno.” We aren’t sure who Bruno is. We do know that in 1988 he then starred in a little film called “Die Hard.”
Joe Pesci
Pesci actually tried his hand at music first. In the ‘60s, he played guitar in some bands and actually released an album called “Little Joey Sure Can Sing!” He was billed as Joe Ritchie at the time. Then Pesci got into acting, and obviously that went better for him. Eventually, Pesci would use his movie stardom to get a chance to indulge in his musical passion. He did it in an odd way, though. Pesci released an album in character as the one he played in “My Cousin Vinny.”
Minnie Driver
Driver became a noteworthy actress in 1997 thanks to the double whammy of “Grosse Pointe Blank” and the huge hit “Good Will Hunting,” where she played the love interest of Matt Damon’s genius janitor. You may have seen her most recently starring in the sitcom “Speechless.” In 2004 she made her musical debut with the album “Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket.” She had a couple of minor hits in the United Kingdom but garnered a little less attention in the United States.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
When she was not whispering to ghosts or being one of the it girls of the ‘90s, Hewitt tried her hand at music as well. Actually, she first dipped her toe in music in 1992 with the fittingly titled album “Love Songs.” She then released a couple of more albums in the wake of the popularity of “Party of Five.” Naturally, she also had a song on the soundtrack of “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Ryan Gosling
We’re not talking about Gosling’s time on “The Mickey Mouse Club.” We’re also not talking about the movie “La La Land.” Gosling and his friend Zach Shields decided to form a rock duo called Dead Man’s Bones, based on their shared interest in ghosts and the supernatural. Their 2009 release is something of an experimental album, as they did not do more than three takes of any song. Also Gosling recorded on the album under the pseudonym of “Baby Goose.”
William Shatner
OK, maybe you do know about Shatner’s music career. It’s been a punchline for many years. Captain Kirk is not, shall we say, a traditionally talented singer. That’s readily apparent on his cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” Check out the video of him performing that song sometime if you want to see something truly fascinating.
Leonard Nimoy
What is it about “Star Trek” actors trying their hands at music? Kirk did it, and so did Spock. He actually sung in character as Spock in some of his songs. Then there were covers of tunes like “Proud Mary.” The real question is whether Shatner or Nimoy was the worse singer?
Christopher Lee
He played Dracula and a villainous wizard in the “Lord of the Rings” movies. It feels fitting that Lee was apparently a metal head. Would you believe that he made two EPs that are heavy metal Christmas albums? What’s truly cool is that Lee was making music until 2013. He was 91 at the time!Similar threads
