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Nov 4, 2021 · Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Queen Latifah, Will Smith, and more musicians who made the leap to the big screen.
Aug 2, 2023 · Clockwise from top left: Anne Hathaway in Jenny Lewis’ “Just One Of The Guys”; Tom Hanks in Carly Rae Jepsen’s “I Really Like You”; Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice”;...
- Cher, Moonstruck (1987) Someone like Judy Garland certainly had a more impactful Hollywood career overall, but when it comes to a single performance from an acting singer or a singing actor or whatever you wanna call it, Cher’s Oscar-winning turn in the 1987 romcom Moonstruck remains the standard by which you mentally check all others.
- Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were (1973) A single scene is enough to prove the point: On one of those New York nights, Barbra Streisand’s Katie runs into the uber-WASP Hubble, played by Robert Redford, who she had a thing for in college, out at a bar.
- Ice Cube, Boyz N the Hood (1991) If there’s a thesis statement to the first half-decade of Ice Cube’s entertainment career, it could be one of Doughboy’s most famous lines: “Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s goin’ on in the hood.”
- Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born (2018) It might not seem like much of a stretch for Lady Gaga’s big screen breakout to come as an aspiring pop star. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that Gaga is playing a Hollywood-ified version of herself in A Star Is Born.
Jan 22, 2020 · 17 actors who found huge success as recording artists. Cooper became a Grammy-winning artist for his performance in "A Star Is Born." Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment. Bradley Cooper's musical ...
- Gabbi Shaw
- Eddie Murphy
- Alyssa Milano
- Leonard Nimoy
- William Shatner
- Steven Seagal
- Bruce Willis
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Joey Lawrence
- Joe Pesci
- Don Johnson
The 1980s were a very good decade for Eddie Murphy. In addition to being one of Saturday Night Live’s biggest stars, he was drawing huge crowds as a stand-up comedian, turning those comedy shows into iconic pieces of pop culture history with Delirious and Raw, and headlining some of Hollywood biggest blockbusters. In the midst of all this, he someh...
Having conquered the small screen as the star ofWho’s the Boss?, Alyssa Milano set her sights on the music world and, at least internationally, actually had some success. Her 1989 album,Look In My Heart, turned out to be pretty big in Japan. Stateside, she was best known for singing the theme song to her workout video, Teen Steam. Though she told P...
In the late 1960s, one science fiction icon paid tribute to other sci-fi greats with a pair of albums that celebrated the genre with a lineup of songs with titles like "Alien," "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth," "Lost in the Stars," and what is perhaps his most famous recording: "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (see above), which appeared on his second...
Though more of a spoken word artist than a full-on musician, Leonard Nimoy’sStar Trek co-star also made a bit of a splash on the music scene, beginning with his 1968 spoken word album The Transformed Man, where he gave well-known songs like "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" a Shatner-esque twist. He has recorded a handful of ...
In addition to his run as one of Hollywood’s best known action stars during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steven Seagal has attempted a number of other careers: aromatherapy specialist, energy drink maker, law enforcer, and, yes, musician. Years after giving his music a part in a few of his own films, including Fire Down Below, Seagal released hi...
Steven Seagal is far from the only action star to try his hand at music-making. In 1987, at the height of Moonlighting’s success, Bruce Willis released The Return of Bruno, an album that mixed pop music with blues and managed to produce a hit single, "Respect Yourself," featuring The Pointer Sisters. The accompanying video (above) was appropriately...
Thanks to her early acting career on the variety show Kids Incorporated, Jennifer Love Hewitt has been singing for as long as she has been acting—and even sang backup on fellow Kids Incorporated co-star Martika’s hit 1989 song, "Toy Soldiers." Though she released her first album, Love Songs, in 1992—when she was just 12 years old—it wasn’t until af...
Jennifer Love Hewitt wasn’t the only '90s teen heartthrob to take a stab at a recording career. In 1993, at the height of Blossom mania, Joey Lawrence released his self-titled debut album, which included "Nothin' My Love Can’t Fix," which became a bona fide hit around the world. In 2014, he told Queen Latifahthat he was thinking about making a retu...
Before he was an actor, Joe Pesci was a barber. In between, he attempted to mount a musical career—and didn’t do too badly at it. In his earliest days, he played guitar with several bands, including Joey Dee and the Starlighters (the band went through a few rotations, but Jimi Hendrix ended up playing the same gig as Pesci at a later point). In 196...
While his Miami Vice co-star Philip Michael Thomas was busy trying to become an EGOT, Don Johnson was making a foray into the music business as well. During the 1980s, he released two solo albums, and scored a major hit with "Heartbeat," which made it all the way to No. 5 on the BillboardHot 100 chart. His cover of Aaron Neville’s "Tell It Like It ...
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Apr 13, 2023 · Queen Latifah, Awkwafina, Ice Cube, Will Smith and more began their celebrity careers in rap. Here’s a list of singers who became actors and actresses: Getty Images. Lady Gaga. The Mother ...
May 13, 2022 · Considering how closely linked the arts are to each other, there are many actors who have taken the leap into music after they've achieved mainstream success on stage and screen. Scarlett Johansson, for example, released her debut album, "Anywhere I Lay My Head," in 2008 after her meteoric rise in Hollywood (via AllMusic ).
