Actors turned singers

[PyroChamber]

It's very rare when an actor/actress decides they want to try their hand at becoming a singer and actually becomes successful, so what are you think are some examples of when actors/actresses become singers and are actually good?

 

[javon]

...nobody. LMAO Seriously, i can't think of any.

 

[The Chairman]

Emmy Rossum and Kevin Spacey both have terrific voices.

 

[Eggyman]

Zooey Deschanel. I'm not sure if she's successful, but she certainly has a great voice.

I love her in naughty ways.

 

[Addendum]

Kris Kristofferson

or was he the other way around

 

[The Chairman]

Kris Kristofferson

or was he the other way around

He was the other way around.

 

[thejon93]

Hopefully Mr. Joaquin Phoenix won't go down this path, especially with a rap-career(Oh! I'm sorry, I meant: "Hip-Hop")

 

[Cosmic]

Jamie Foxx has impressed me with his singing. He's just released a new album.

Juliette Lewis has been performing with her band for years.

 

[Mr.Webs]

I always thought Ewan McGregor could put out an album and be a success. He has a pretty stunning voice.

 

[danoyse]

Emmy Rossum and Kevin Spacey both have terrific voices.

Emmy Rossum was a singer first - she was in the children's chorus at the Met.

 

[Sawyer]

I always thought Ewan McGregor could put out an album and be a success. He has a pretty stunning voice.

Seconded.

 

[CELTICPRED]

Bruce Willis played harmonica in a band before he struck it big, and he has his blues band The Accelerators

And Russell Crowe has his band too.

 

[Addendum]

Eric Idle

 

[Manic]

Jamie Foxx has impressed me with his singing. He's just released a new album.

I love his singing, but I find Jamie Foxx's songs strangely boring. Granted, he's more successful than Eddie Murphy, who failed drastically at "comedian-turned-actor-turned-singer."

 

[CELTICPRED]

Party all the Time is still an awesome song.

 

[Manic]

Party all the Time is still an awesome song.

Well, yeah. I'm just saying that if the same happened to Foxx, we'd be sitting here talking about "Unpredictable."

 

[The Chairman]

Eddie Murphy is a great singer, though.

 

[Cosmic]

I love his singing, but I find Jamie Foxx's songs strangely boring. Granted, he's more successful than Eddie Murphy, who failed drastically at "comedian-turned-actor-turned-singer."

I agree for the most part, but the format that they're using is what sells on the mass market right now. From a business standpoint, it makes sense. I've seen him perform onstage a couple of times, though, and it was a completely different story. He was improvising constantly...playing off the crowd, and other performers who took turns singing with him.

 

[Anubis]

Emmy Rossum was a singer first - she was in the children's chorus at the Met.

Eh, that don't count.

 

[Alexia Dark]

Hugh Jackman. Anne Hathaway. Bernadette Peters. Matthew Brockerick. Patrick Wilson.

Hmm. Let's just include the entire roster of incredible musical theatre performers who are incredibly talented and pathetically under-rated by the general population. Many of them have albums, but few reach the kind of sales achieved by pretty little dancers and digital voice equipment. It is truly sad.

 

[Anubis]

Lets not and say we did.

 

[adhokk7]

Kevin Bacon

 

[Mdizzle]

Mos Def...but does rapper count?

All I can think of is Love Hewitt and Hayden Panettiere..........but me I'm not a fan (at least of their music)

 

[Bat-Gasm]

Hugo Weaving. Either really good choice, or really bad. No shades of gray.

 

[Motown Marvel]

zooey deschenel's band 'she and him' are simply wonderful:
http://www.myspace.com/sheandhim