Porn Valley- Candye Kane is a marvelous blues singer whose recordings and stage shows unapologetically celebrate the sexuality of many people marginalized by mainstream culture — most notably large women, bisexuals, and sex workers. Candye, who is herself both large and bisexual, supported herself financially while her music career was getting off the ground by modeling nude for porn magazines, stripping, making porn videos, and doing phone sex.

Never ashamed or embarrassed about her sexual desires or her sex work, she would proudly show her music industry friends the latest issue of Juggs or Hefty Mamas that featured her photos, or talk proudly about her latest video. Her refusal to “tone down” her sexuality cost her her first big record contract and her relationship with her first major agent. Stunned and bereft, but never one to hide her sexual core, Candye shifted her music from country to blues, where she found a musical home and a musical tradition that allowed her to be her full sexual self and be successful at the same time.

She has played with such blues greats as B. B. King, Etta James, Albert Collins and Dr. John. Her recordings include “The Toughest Girl Alive,” “Any Woman’s Blues,” “Swango,” “Diva La Grande,” and her latest release, “Whole Lotta Love.” Her songs include such sexy, sexual favorites as “Two Hundred Pounds of Fun,” “I’m in Love with a Girl,” “Let’s Commit Adultery,” “Seven Men a Week,” “Fit, Fat and Fine,” “You Need A Great Big Woman,” “Let’s Put the X Back in Xmas,” and “All You Can Eat (and You Can Eat It All Night Long).” Her shows, which have been described as “a revival meeting in the parking lot of a porn store,” are opportunities for sexual outlaws of all kinds to come together, dance, and celebrate sexual existence in all its forms.

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