Kane Alexander

Kane Alexander
Studio album by Kane Alexander
Released	29 April 2006
Recorded	Stockholm, London
Genre	Classical, Jazz
Label	Sony BMG
Producer	Tom Nichols

Kane Alexander is an Australian jazz singer and classical singer, who has also on occasion been a television actor. He has appeared on Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Stingers and Good Morning Australia.

Alexander grew up in country Victoria, where he was raised on an isolated farm in the Victoria wheat-belt. At six years old, he discovered a box of old records belonging to his grandparents in an old shed. This included artists such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and even Slim Dusty. One of the records was by Mario Lanza which he states triggered his lifelong love for operatic anhd classical singing.

He studied and graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in voice and drama, after which he paid his way by working in the jazz clubs of New York. After extensively working the New York jazz scene from 2000 to 2002, he returned to Australia.

Alexander is considered best known for his lead roles that he has performed on the Australian stage. Some of his well-known roles are Bobby Strong in Melbourne Theatre Company's Urinetown, Claude in Hair, Willard in Footloose, Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, and the Scarecrow in the Sydney season of The Wizard Of Oz. He has also appeared in the 10th-anniversary production of Les Misérables, South Pacific, Only Heaven Knows and Angry Penguins.

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