Who am I?
I am Cyprian Kane, an American-born Composer, Musician, Writer, and Artist. I was born at Pontiac General Hospital in Pontiac Michigan back in 1971. It was a Saturday, June 12th, and incidentally, Nixon’s daughter married at the White House on this day, (Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox). But I digress, we were talking about my story.
I began performing music at a very early age. I was just five years old when my father, (Larry Wayne Buchanan), brought me up on stage to sing CCR’s “Proud Mary”, at the. Moose Lodge no. 182 in Pontiac, Michigan. It was great to hear the backbeat if the music vibrating my whole body, while the audience roared. In keeping with family tradition, my father was known to have performed when he was five as well. He used to skip school, (as the tale goes), and go down to the local diner and put a nickel in the jukebox. He would then imitate Elvis and people would throw coins. My dad was an enterprising Rock and Roller back then.
I guess you could say that I followed right in his footsteps. I use to live on the streets when I was a kid, virtually. I was never home. I would go with my parents to bowling, billiards, and baseball. Those were some happy times. Happy times at home were elusive. Ahhh…but on the streets I could be anything. I became a superhero once, and I use to sing for my supper very often. I would tell jokes,( which I wasn’t very good at telling other people jokes, but I was better at my own sense of humor), I would make up rhymes, and do impersonations, really, whatever you would consider entertainment. I am an entertainer. And a prestidigitator, of sorts. It’s a magic act in the end.
Later, as my father’s band began to fall apart, I took to writing music, and putting together my own bands. This was in my teens. We didn’t sound all that great at first, some would say we were just making noise. But somewhere in the noise there was magic in the air. I never heard the noise. I only heard what it could sound like in my mind and heart, and tried to give that the breath of life in composition.
But for one reason or another, bands would always split up. Not serious enough, controlled by an outside force, Force majeure, you name it…they just never worked. Ego’s, insecurities, and all kinds of reasons why no one could play nice. So I struck out on my own.
Thus, I began my solo years. This lasted in my twenties and thirties. Well, as a disclaimer I must say that for most of my twenties, I wrote music but did not perform so much because of my time in the cult. I went to school for some instruments, music theory and composition, and some other classes about the great composers. (Stay tuned for a detailed article about the cult experience I went through).
But it wasn’t until my father’s untimely death at age 47, in 1998, that I was able to rip myself free from the dark tower of the cult and begin to play out again. I realized that I had to get out. It was about that time that I met Sacha Alexandria O’Kane, my cousin, and the person who would manage my rock career for a long time.
Because of Sacha, as my patron, I was able to record full-time, and also do shows. I am forever indebted to her, and she is still working with me in some respects even today. God bless long, productive relationships!
We had begun to have some success and even appeared on television. But later, with the news of my younger brother’s death, (James Aaron Buchanan), I went back to Michigan. At the time I was playing the streets of cobblestone in St. Augustine, right outside of St. Photius. We had four other television appearances booked. Everything was cancelled.
I went through dark times, or more like a dark age. On the other side waiting for me was the experience of the Orthodox Christian faith which I fully embraced in 2014, when I was baptized and chrismated at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Bloomfield Hills.
I’ve gone back to school in order to get my bachelor’s in Audio Engineering, and things are going well.
In 2024 we launched the new podcast show WTRP Cyprian Kane show. WTRP PODCAST
“Our mission is to release our works to the public for enrichment and entertainment, to the highest industry standards, (going forward), and to perform these productions to the best of our ability, with a little magic thrown in for good measure. In essence, to Rock and Roll satisfactorily. We believe that we stand on the shoulders of giants, and that we are keenly aware that without there contributions, we would not be where we are in time and sound.”
In 2010, Cyprian Kane made his first television début, on the ABC regional morning show, “Your Carolina”, in which he played the song “Easy Rider”, an original tune. At the time, he was homeless, and soon after, Sacha and Cyprian, (who had since found out they were cousins through their grandparents, and had become as close as brother and sister), landed a job at Mt. Pisgah for a season as housekeepers. This job provided room and board, and through that season they saved all their money for a tour bus.
In May of 2012, www.cypriankane.com was launched, and the first official independent release “Amalgam” became available to the public shortly thereafter. In 2013, “Radio Drive” followed. In 2014, the third and final volume in “The Underground Years” series, “Ellipsis“, became available to the public.
The Cy-Times Gazette began publishing articles in 2013. As of 2015, it has become a featured blog on “The Oakland Press” website, with notices occasionally in print. The gazette deals with articles from a range of subjects, in both the fact & fiction genres.
On October 10th, 2024, I became married to my lovely wife Nelly and am preparing to release some works from my vault to the public at large. Please stay tuned, and subscribe to the newsletter for exclusive content and a backstage pass to my world and art.
God Bless
Cyprian Napoleon Kane
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