10 Actors That Are Actually Decent Musicians
From the Screen to the Stage.
The entire film industry tends to be fairly cut throat for any humble actor. Much like any show biz story, you sometimes just need to be in the right place at the right time, with the execs at the top looking at the performance as something of an afterthought. It's one thing to get it right once...but it's something else to manage to pull it off in a totally different context.
Aside from the acting chops that each of these people have, they've also proven themselves to be more than competent when put on stage with an instrument in their hands. While not lighting the world on fire or anything, these actors have clearly been using their downtime well, even scoring the odd hit every now and again thanks to having the right connections. Though some of these are definitely more for a niche audience than anything else, it's still fairly competently played and deserves to be celebrated just as much as any of their films might be.
In an age where people like Bruce Willis claimed to be skilled musicians and fell on their faces, these are the actors who actually have the tunes to back it up. Whether in the background or front and centre, there's a lot more going on behind the characters that you see on screen.
10. Ice-T
For years now, Ice-T has managed to put heinous criminals in their place on Law and Order SVU. Though never really the most challenging of roles to take on, his work as Fin has given him a whole different audience of people who wouldn't have even known who he was. Where was he before you may ask? Making some of the most dangerous music ever made.
Across both his hip hop career and metal career in the band Body Count, T has been known to put his listener through absolute hell with his lyrics. While his experience working on the streets of California certainly informed his role on SVU, those life experiences has led to him achieving absolute savagery in his lyrics, with pure evil being spit over every single bar he sings.
It's not like he's the most versatile of singers though, with his flow fitting much better in the hip hop sphere than the metal spectrum, where he just sounds like he's violently narrating his bars at you instead of singing. Then again, sometimes when you're talking about these kind of dark topics, the focus is more on the delivery than the music at hand. Above all else, T has managed to transform his life as a dedicated detective into earning road stripes across two completely different genres of music.