Nominated in 3 Categories!

The Blues Foundation has annouced it's 2010 BLUES MUSIC AWARD nominees. 

Our favorite Blues Diva, Candye Kane has been nominated in 3 Categories!

1. B.B. King Entertainer of the Year

2. Contemporary Blues Album

3. Contemporary Blues Female Artist

The Blues Music Awards are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists.

On-Line voting begins December 10, 2009

You must be a member of the Blues Foundation in order to Vote.

Vote for Candye Kane! She so deserves this honor!

Learn more about Candye when you visit her website www.candyekane.com'

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year nomination

Candye is undeniably an entertainer par excellence

She has been included in countless Blues and Jazz Anthologies including the Rolling Stone and Music hounds Guide to Jazz and Blues and Dan Akroyds' 30 Essential Women of the Blues and Elwoods Blues.

In addition to her music successes, she is an activist and philanthropist. In August 2008, she appeared in Cape Town, South Africa for the World Congress for people with disabilities with her United by Music show for special needs kids (www.unitedbymusic.eu). This project provides performance opportunities, blues history lessons and songwriting instruction to young people with disabilities, encouraging them to write their own blues songs to help them overcome their daily challenges. In 2009 United by Music appeared in Dublin for the World Congress for Downs Syndrome. Look for United by Music to tour in the United States in the summer of 2010.

Nominated in 2008 by the Blues Foundation for Best Blues Contemporary Female (the highest honor for blues artists) and beating down pancreatic cancer the same year, Kane is one tough cookie. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars, but her path to success was not always glamorous or easy. 

Candye is a fighter and her authenticity, determination and optimism are what keep her shows passionate, honest and irresistible. One evening with Candye will keep the crowds happy, hopeful and coming back for more!

Vote for Candye Kane to win the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award.

Contemporary Blues Album nomination

SUPERHERO is Candye Kane's 10th album 

 Click the button to  hear "Hey Toughen Up!" from SUPERHERO

The cd was produced by Kane and 26 year old guitar virtuoso Laura Chavez who also plays in her live band. It features guest performances by Kid Ramos, Dave Gonzales and Mitch Kashmar along with Kanes' rhythm section featuring eldest son, Evan Caleb on drums and bass veteran, Paul Loranger. This newest effort is chock full of the songs of triumph and empowerment that have made Kane a favorite with enlightened congregations everywhere.

SUPERHERO is the name of Candyes' original song and the title of the nominated album. It is also an apt description of the jump blues singer and songwriter from East Los Angeles who has earned this moniker the hard way.

Vote for Candye Kane to win the Contemporary Blues Album of the Year Award.

Contemporary Blues Female Artist nomination

She belts - growls - shouts - croons and moans from a lifetime of suffering and overcoming obstacles.

She uses music as therapy and often writes and chooses material with positive affirmations that leave the audience feeling healed and exhilarated. A show that is part humor, revival meeting and sexuality celebration.

She'll slay the crowd with her balls out rendition of Whole Lotta Love or glorify the virtues of zaftig women with 200 pounds of fun. She often says she is a "fat black drag queen trapped in a white woman's body" and she dresses the part. Bedecked in bright colored feathers, sequins and rhinestones, Kane's performance is Mississippi by way of Las Vegas with a quick stopover in San Francisco.

Vote for Candye Kane to win the Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year Award.

Vote for Candye Kane in all 3 Categories !!!

Press Quotes:

An Older and Wiser blues diva
-All Music guide

A Blues Diva of the 20th century who can liven up any party without shedding a stitch - People Magazine

A serious and seriously powerful singer who lays it all on the line
- The Philadelphia Inquirer

Candye Kane has that big, brassy voice that has authority and sass; the kind of thing men like because its seductive and women like because its powerful
- BB King to the San Diego Reader

A voice that is a natural wonder - like the Grand Canyon.
- The Washington Post

 This tough cookie wails with a rousing confidence and affirmation of identity and the courage of her convictions
- Downbeat Magazine

Candye Kane may identify as a white trash girl but her music is most certainly high class
- Jazz and Blues report

 A smart sassy blues diva mama with a powerhouse voice and a generous frame - Style Weekly

 Bawdy, brassy and gloriously omnisexual, the plus sized singer belts out the blues like nobodys business
- Dallas Voice

Kanes sassy singing is a joy to behold
- Montreal Gazette

The Most powerful and entertaining female blues singer of her generation
- Bluesbytes.com

 A natural born, supremely gifted vocalist who can sing her humanity while touching ours
- Illinois Blues.com

Blues Foundation

The Blues Foundation will present the Blues Music Awards at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, TN on May 6, 2010.

The Blues Music Awards honor those professional artists and recordings that stand out within the eligibility period, which runs from November 1 through October 31 of each year.

In addition to the awards for the past year's top recordings, additional categories honor individual, actively touring artists for their overall excellence and accomplishment in that year.

Each year, the Foundation present The Blues Music Awards to the artists selected by its members. They are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists.

Join now and you can immediately vote for Candye Kane!  Memperships start at just $25 a year.

For more information or to join visit the website www.blues.org

Candye Kane Website

For more information on this amazing Blues Diva visit

www.candyekane.com