By Allison Duck

He’s got the looks, the voice, the acting skills, the stuntman physique and that hair — oh, that magnificent hair. Christian Kane pulls double duty as an actor and a musician, and his TV and film credits include Angel, Dawson’s Creek, The Broken Hearts Club and the current hit Leverage.

What you might not know is that Kane is a bona-fide country singer. After years in the business as a singer-songwriter in Nashville, he is hitting the road again with his band. Check out behind-the-scenes footage from his music video shoot for “Let Me Go.” Kane performs at Stoney’s on Friday.

To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, “Singing or acting, we’re at war here, pick a side.” Though it is nothing new in the entertainment world, it seems like the singing actor era is coming back. What do you think about this?

I think it’s great. You have to remember 40 years ago, you couldn’t get a studio deal in Hollywood unless you were a singer. Everybody sang. And with me, it’s a little bit different. It’s really not fair. It’s OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it’s OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it’s not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

So we’re really breaking down some doors, which I am enjoying a lot. At this point, people say he’s lived in Nashville for eight years; he hasn’t lived in Hollywood. I’ve been doing music for 12 years now, and we’re just getting out there to the public. The few who cross over as actors and singers, we value ourselves as entertainers. That’s what we do. We just love to entertain.

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