Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne David Jacksonis an American actor and singer-songwriter. His credits include leading roles in Broadway musicals and other stage roles, as well as film and television roles, concert singing, and music recordings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth12 July 1975
CountryUnited States of America
I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.
generate love people
I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.
cd great happened tv
I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.
manifest ways
The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.
straight-up ambiguous protagonists
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.
kings holiday kids
I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.
song years albums
Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.
song thinking age
You sing songs hundreds of times over and over, but certain ones just morph and naturally, as you age and get life experience, take on a different form as well. When I was looking at songs for the album, I thought, "Which are the ones that connect with me the most? What do I think would work in album form?" Almost all of them I've done in shows.
fun has-beens
I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.
mom listening fans
I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.
mom eras my-mom
Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.
mom years pay
I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to both her version and Joni's, and by proxy, my mom. She's the one that introduced me to that music.