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Candye Kane's Legacy of Survival
“THE TOUGHEST GIRL ALIVE,” MISS CANDYE KANE
“I don’t know if this counts as acting,” blues diva Candye Kane says by phone from her Oceanside home. “I’m the narrator and I play myself.”
The Toughest Girl Alive, a play based on Kane’s as-yet unpublished autobiography, premiered January 15 at the Moxie Theatre and runs through February 6. Kane says she didn’t write the script. That part was handled by a friend, Javier Velasco, artistic director of the San Diego Ballet who adapted her narrative to the stage. She did, however, write the music.
“It has 25 original songs, and they’re all mine. You can buy [the CD] at the theater.”
Kane, 48, describes her theatrical debut as a multi-media event with live music, actors (including Bethany Slomka and Robert Kirk), and a slide show.
“The stage,” she says, “is set as a circus theme.” What better way to describe a childhood spent growing up in what she calls “the house of hysteria?”
Born Candace Hogan, Kane says her father was serving a prison sentence at the time of her birth. Later, to help make ends meet, her mother taught her to shoplift. The memoir touches on family members trapped in alcoholism and mental illness, her teenage motherhood, East L.A. gangs, drugs, and prostitution. And most of this, she says, took place prior to her early 20s.
“The only thing that gave me a reprieve from the house that I grew up in was music.”
At first, she nurtured her emerging talent as a singer/songwriter by turning to the fast dollar offered by the adult industry. Candace Hogan became Candye Kane, porn star. “I capitalized on my large bust line and used it to make money to spend on recording sessions and on making demos.... I held on to my dream of being a singer, and that was what kept me alive, really, was music. And my kids,” she says, “wanting to be better for them.”
She says what she calls her “legacy of survival” also kept her alive through a bout with pancreatic cancer in 2008.
But in The Toughest Girl Alive, art does not always imitate life. Kane says she’s portrayed her mother as more of a sympathetic character. “My mom is well aware and accepts responsibility for the mistakes she made as a young mother. She’s very different now than she was when I was a little girl.”
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Candye Kane's Legacy of Survival
Candye Kane's Legacy of Survival
“THE TOUGHEST GIRL ALIVE,” MISS CANDYE KANE
“I don’t know if this counts as acting,” blues diva Candye Kane says by phone from her Oceanside home. “I’m the narrator and I play myself.”
The Toughest Girl Alive, a play based on Kane’s as-yet unpublished autobiography, premiered January 15 at the Moxie Theatre and runs through February 6. Kane says she didn’t write the script. That part was handled by a friend, Javier Velasco, artistic director of the San Diego Ballet who adapted her narrative to the stage. She did, however, write the music.
“It has 25 original songs, and they’re all mine. You can buy [the CD] at the theater.”
Kane, 48, describes her theatrical debut as a multi-media event with live music, actors (including Bethany Slomka and Robert Kirk), and a slide show.
“The stage,” she says, “is set as a circus theme.” What better way to describe a childhood spent growing up in what she calls “the house of hysteria?”
Born Candace Hogan, Kane says her father was serving a prison sentence at the time of her birth. Later, to help make ends meet, her mother taught her to shoplift. The memoir touches on family members trapped in alcoholism and mental illness, her teenage motherhood, East L.A. gangs, drugs, and prostitution. And most of this, she says, took place prior to her early 20s.
“The only thing that gave me a reprieve from the house that I grew up in was music.”
At first, she nurtured her emerging talent as a singer/songwriter by turning to the fast dollar offered by the adult industry. Candace Hogan became Candye Kane, porn star. “I capitalized on my large bust line and used it to make money to spend on recording sessions and on making demos.... I held on to my dream of being a singer, and that was what kept me alive, really, was music. And my kids,” she says, “wanting to be better for them.”
She says what she calls her “legacy of survival” also kept her alive through a bout with pancreatic cancer in 2008.
But in The Toughest Girl Alive, art does not always imitate life. Kane says she’s portrayed her mother as more of a sympathetic character. “My mom is well aware and accepts responsibility for the mistakes she made as a young mother. She’s very different now than she was when I was a little girl.”
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