Music Monday: Celebrities that put down the scripts and pick up a microphone

Actors are all or mostly talented in the arts.  Other than acting some sing or dance, appearing on Broadway or doing the snippet of song on a movie or TV show.  But then there are those actors who limelight as musicians. Here are my Top 10 Celebrities that can act and sing.

1.  Ryan Gosling – he makes it to the top of the list because he is the most surprising to me.  I always thought of him as this dull actor but apparently he sings, plays piano and guitar and has a fascination with the supernatural, hint hint his band’s name is Dead Man’s Bones.  He has song a little in his movies, mainly Blue Valentine.  Him and his friend Zach have this weird little band that has these zombie like children for a small choir to accompany them.  However his voice is good. 

2.  Zooey Deschanel – Love her!  I first heard her sing in the movie Elf.  I think most people first heard her there.  She plays Will Ferrell’s love interest where they do a accidental duet of “Baby it’s Cold Outside” in the work bathroom.  She is in a band called She & Him, probably because there is her and than this guy.  They sing some pretty catchy songs and do a few well known hits.  I love the vintage sound in her voice. 

3. Robert Downey Jr. – I don’t know if he is still in a band or not, but he did release a CD at one point. I discovered he could really sing when he was on a season of Ally McBeal.  He does this great duet with Sting to “Every Breath You Take” but I couldn’t find a good clip that I could embed in my blog for you to see.  He surprisingly has a great voice. 

4. Leighton Meester – She sings in the movie Country Song and has a very sweet voice, check out her song “Give in to Me” from the movie.  Leighton has released her own pop album recently as well.  I kind of like her voice but I don’t know how well she will do in the music world.  She should probably just stick to singing in movies.  I think she should switch from pop to country music, I loved all her songs from the movie Country Strong, here is one from the movie.
 

5.  Robert Pattinson – He is a singer and the best vampire ever.  He even has two of his songs on the Twilight Soundtrack.  I like his voice it’s kind of mysterious and you would have no idea it was him singing it especially after being well known for soft spoken Edward.  Musician Robert is kind of dirty looking so I prefer actor Robert.  Sorry for the poor video but all the ones of Robert singing were very poorly lit. 

6.  Bruce Willis – I’ve decided Bruce can do no wrong.  He is a great at action and surprisingly very funny!  And he has his own blues band.  Everything he does is just cool.  He may not be the best singer in the world but he sure looks great doing it.

7.  Gwyneth Paltrow – She doesn’t have a band but I really like her voice. Another one from Country Strong movie.  Gwyneth also has sang in a couple other movies and is married to a the lead singer of Cold Play, so maybe he helps her with her vocals. She has some other good songs in the movie too. 

8.  Kevin Bacon – just like Bruce Willis, can Kevin really do anything wrong?  I mean people measure their success by the 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon game, where every actor can trace back to working with Kevin Bacon through 7 people.  Try it, it’s a fun game.  This is also a kind of lame band, The Bacon Brothers, and I don’t think they are around anymore.  But we gotta still love Kevin bacon!

9.  Hugh & Anne – ok these guys are not in bands or think of themselves of musicians (well at least I don’t think they do) I know they both do Broadway, but I remembered this great opening number to the Oscars back I think in 2009.  It’s kind of funny and they both can perform really well.  Hugh also apparently can dance. 

10.  Will Ferrell, Jack Black & John C. Reilly – ok this one is purely for fun.  Jack Black actually can sing and I want to say he does perform, but I really don’t know.  I thought this performance at one of the Oscar shows was fantastic and very funny! The clip ends at about 5min in.