CDAN – 
This male Academy Award winner was known for his singing voice. What is not known to many is that to keep his career going and his voice, he had himself castr*ted. There are rumors that the castr*tion was actually his way of preventing s*xual urges he had for men which he thought was morally wrong.
Seriously? Now this is getting downright WEIRD!
that is …. no words can say how I feel…sick sick sick
Ol’ Danny Zuko himself, Mr. Travolta
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure he was only nominated for an Academy Award, not a winner. If that’s the case this is not him. Plus if rumors are true, he’s not trying to suppress his true sexual urges at all.
You’re right, my bad!
Sinatra
Sinatra was a serial player
Somehow I think Sinatra is Sicilian for penis
Bing Crosby?
With that basso voice, I highly doubt it! Not to mention he had a few kids.
fred astaire? i have no idea
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison wasn’t known for a strong singing voice. There are interviews about the “speak-singing” he did for his part in “My Fair Lady” because he wasn’t a strong singer. And his voice was pretty low too.
I’d say it was someone who started singing at a young age since your voice changes with puberty, doesn’t say if it’s an actor maybe won for best song?
Posting all male oscar winners and singers I recognize…
1945 Bing Crosby Going My Way (1944) – doubtful
1954 Frank Sinatra From Here to Eternity (1953) – doubtful
Burt Bacharach 1969 (42nd) “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • no idea
Isaac Hayes 1971 (44th) “Theme from Shaft” — Shaft • – doubtful
Keith Carradine 1975 (48th) “I’m Easy” — Nashville • – didn’t know he sung but possible with his death from auto erotic asphyxiation
Stevie Wonder 1984 (57th) “I Just Called to Say I Love You” — The Woman in Red • – doubtful as he has like a million kids or something
Lionel Richie 1985 (58th) “Say You, Say Me” — White Nights • – no idea, does he have any bio kids? I know Nicole is adopted.
Bruce Springsteen 1993 (66th) “Streets of Philadelphia” — Philadelphia • – doubtful
Elton John 1994 (67th) “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” — The Lion King • – well…
Phil Collins 1999 (72nd) “You’ll Be in My Heart” — Tarzan • – ehh no idea
Bob Dylan 2000 (73rd) “Things Have Changed” — Wonder Boys • he has kids that look just like him and well his voice isn’t something i’d think to be preserved
Randy Newman2001 (74th) “If I Didn’t Have You” — Monsters, Inc. • – no idea
Eminem 2002 (75th) “Lose Yourself” — 8 Mile • – bio kid and just no
Glen Hansard 2007 (80th) “Falling Slowly” — Once • – going out on a limb and giving this a solid no
so in other words i’ve got no idea…
Oh dear, Keith is alive, David Carradine is dead.
haha. oops. can’t keep them straight. I look like an idiot now.
No you don’t!:)
Isn’t Beiber in Europe getting this done right now?
It seems like it can’t be anyone BUT Michael Jackson, but you would think it would have come out as a way to identify his privates. Or I guess maybe I shoud say his private.
Also, it sounds like this person is dead.
Definitely Isaac Hayes, lol.
With a voice that deep? lol
This is totally implausible. There would be no point castrating a singer after puberty as it wouldn’t affect their voice. So we are talking about a pre-pubescent singer with sufficient carnal knowledge to understand homosexual urges who willingly volunteered to have themselves castrated? And who was knowledgable enough about both to request the procedure and to fund it and pursuade a doctor to carry it out? I don’t think so.
I agree- especially the complexities of finding a doc to actually do it. No way.
completely agree. this blind totally discredits cdan in my opinion
as if it wasn’t already discredited by half of
its stuff…
lol. so true but this one takes the cake!
lol
Maybe the voice was the excuse – and it was really just about curbing the homosexuality?
I agree, I find this very unlikely.
agreed, I’m calling BS on this one
Al Jolson?
Michael Jackson – am hopeful that this will be my first ever correct guess
Never won an Oscar.
Actually, he did win an Oscar–bidding in an auction, he won David O. Selznick’s Best Picture Oscar for “Gone With the Wind” in 1999, paying 1.5 million.
(Not saying he’s the answer to the blind, necessarily–but I also thought it’s worthwhile to point out that castration can be chemical rather than surgical.)
I think you’re right. A French doctor just wrote about it in a book released March 9 (thus making this blind worthy today). No, the family was not consulted, but this is actually a plausible scenario. There is a reason that very few male singers, even amazing ones, can sing his songs in their original key. They are soooo high!!! Here is an article that explains: http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/224471/michael-jackson-chemically-castrated
Forgot to say that the Dr. is suggesting he was chemically castrated, not physically, which sounds more feasible.
Actually, Michael Jackson, was a tenor and had a huge range. Just listen to 2000 watts or “You can’t win” from the Wiz and you’ll hear his lower range. He spoke with a higher voice usually but if you watch his Superbowl performance, you’ll hear MJ speaking in his normal lower range. Plus, his autopsy mentions NOTHING about castration and notes that he was producing sperm at the time of his death. It’s not him.
Gene Kelly?
I kinda thought Kelly at first but he wasn’t primarily known for his voice.
Since this doesn’t say actor and they do give academny awards for best original song, I’ll say it’s a singer/songwriter and not an actor. For that reason and that alone, I’ll just take an uneducated guess and pick Irving Berlin.
I’m just going to go ahead and say no to all of it.
I don’t believe a word of this, this is really scraping the bottom of the big barrel o’ gossip!
Arthur opened last week. In recognition of same, I will say Christopher Cross.
I am thinking of 2 Time AA winner Danny Kaye. He had a show called, “The Secret Life of Danny Kaye”.
that seems like a very good choice
That could be it. Kaye was known to be gay.
He was also known for his red hair… the shorts in the pic might be a clue.
Maybe it is the way this is written, but I’m confused by the writing of this blind item…What I gather from it is, this is a male actor who was originally a singer, but is not known for this. I also assume that this person has a high pitched voice (?)…so who could it be? I don’t know.
My 1st guess was Wayne Newton. I’ve long thought he might be a castrato, but he hasn’t won an Oscar. My 2nd guess was Paul Williams, an Oscar winner for sure, but he has 2 kids and he’s known more for songwriting and producing than being a singer. This is a tough blind, and possibly untrue.
Michael Jackson…RIP
It’s official. We have heard it all gossip lovers. And I don’t buy it.
Did Wayne Newton ever win an Oscar? He used to get all “tough guy” when people said he sounded like a young woman.
Sorry but Betty is not buying this blind item.
Yul Brynner or perhaps Joel Grey…yes, I know he’s still alive, but it doesn’t specifically say he’s dead.
I dont know if this will help, but on the original site for this BI, the headline states “Old Hollywood”. So, if this is an actual BI, the answer will be someone from the Golden Age, not someone current.
Shut up! Talk about extremism!
Uh, how is his well attested and *active* gayness supposed to make him a plausible guess?! Danny Kaye had a ten-year relationship with Laurence Olivier.
IMHO, this is about someone no longer living, didn’t necessarily get the Oscar for acting. We also have to remember that 20, 30, 40 years ago, there were some extreme ways to handle things like homosexuality. It was accepted and as open as it is today.
Michael Jackson never won an oscar. That said, I am leaning towards Stevie Wonder, who has won an Oscar, began his career as a child and has no biological children that we know of.
Sorry, just realized Stevie Wonder is still living. I still think he’s a possibility.
He has seven biological children for starters.
Ha!
If this is an Old Hollywood blind, I’ll guess Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, the original voice of Jiminy Cricket. He was already working as a saloon singer at the age of 14. Though the Oscar went to the song rather than to Edwards directly (Pinocchio’s voice actors were uncredited), “When You Wish Upon a Star” won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Danny Kaye, definitely known for his singing.
He received an honorary Oscar in ’86.
Yes he was married and had a child, but he could have had the castration later on. He and his wife were estranged, never divorced. Had the rumors follow him regarding his sexuality. He’s my guess.
BTW, Hi BG, lurk alot, thought I might have a shot at solving this one..
Hi Repeat! Love, BG
Although crazy by today’s standards, it is definitely possible this happened a long time ago. Being gay used to be a secret that celebrities would never admit! We have come a long way to the year 2011.
I wonder if it was Eddie Cantor? Born in 1892. Known to have a high voice. Famous for singing. Yes, he had 5 daughters BUT he married at age 22. He could have fathered the kids and still had the castration by age 30 or around there. He won an honourary Oscar. He was heavily involved in the March of Dimes and was considered a humanitarian. Don’t know his political leanings. He could have thought gay feelings would hurt his wife, children, career and humanitarian rep hence castration in the 1920′s when he would be in his 30′s. Medical ethics were different back then. They were still doing sterilization on the mentally handicapped back then. Castration might not have been that odd.
I say this procedure-or any other that one can pay cash for-is possible now, as well. Look at what poor Michael Jackson had done to his face, The Cat Woman (can’t think of her real name), and Joan Rivers. Just because someone has M.D. at the end of their name doesn’t make them a great human being.
This one is some crazy ****.
Eddie Cantor married 1914 and had his daughters:
Marjorie 1915
Natalie 1916
Edna 1919
Marilyn 1921
Janet 1927
So by the time he was 34 or 35 he was done fathering kids.
Michael Jackson. Won an Oscar for the Ben theme song. It would also explain his insistence that he never had sex with any of the boys who slept over.
Agree. It makes total sense.
Wikipedia says the song was nominated, but not a winner.
This has Michael Jackson all over it. Besides that his voice sounds like he’s been castrated in interviews. No doubt it’s him.
MICHEAL JACKSON!!
MICHEAL JACKSON!! He had it done when he was young, around 12,or 13. It was “Rumored/believe that Joe Jackson made him do it. It was the only way to stop his voice from changing.
Yes but didn’t he put on that voice for the public? In private his voice was that of a man?
This.
And so, ridiculous blind.
Listen to 2000 Watts off the invincible album, his voice is quite a lot deeper on it than his usual falsetto singing voice. Plus, there’s plenty of youtube videos dedicated to his, erm, changeable assets
. Not him, imo.
I don’t think Ben won an Oscar. I looked it up, unless it was an honorary one.
I couldn’t find where Michael Jackson ever won an Oscar.
But for years I’ve speculated that he was castrated to keep the voice the same…but my guess is that Papa Joe was behind this since it was Michael who was the ‘cash cow’ for the entire family; I doubt Michael had any input or understanding what the bilateral orchiectomy would do in his life. It would have been done pre-puberty.
Later he might have taken testosterone as a supplement to boost his interest in sex.
It is terribly sad to think this might have been perpetrated against him, all for profit…but Joe hasn’t been too famous for anything other than looking out for Joe!
Mickey Rooney. Bit of a wild guess, but he was a child actor and singer long ago (and under the studio system). Won a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1983. IMDB also tells me he has children, so go ahead and mock my guess…
My mom told me Mickey Rooney used to sleep with loads of women, despite the fact that he is about as sexy as a roadkill.
Michael RIP
Has Neil Sedaka ever won an oscar? He’s got a castrati voice.
Justin Timberlake! jk…
Yeah but if it was MJ wouldn’t that be his defense with the child molestation charges?Although I don’t think he was ever accused of intercourse. Maybe this was the identifying thing about his peepee??? This could be huge news if true! But did he win an oscar?
The “morally” part i think is a clue. Must be someone who was very religious?
Michael Jackson’s speaking and singing voice did deepen, he was soft spoken but the actual voice wasn’t high. Not to mention, his autopsy was made public and he was apparently fine in that aspect.
I read this blind as someone who is primarily an actor but is known to be a good singer.
Okay – I HATE that I have to defend Michael Jackson (who I have always disliked) but a little singer education is in order here. He was a counter-tenor. It makes the voice sound like falsetto but it is a legitimate voice type and not something that you train yourself to do – although if you throw a good falsetto on top of it it came make you sound like you have an amazing range. I have heard from people who knew him that the high speaking voice was an affectation
Now…back to the gossiping…
There’s something called chemical castration whereby the bits and pieces remain intact but the effect is the same as long as the treatment continues.
This is strange… I can’t imagine castration. That is and should only be for sex offenders. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to voluntarily doing that to themselves. Hollyweird!
Oh, I frogot to add, I don’t think it’s Michael Jackson at all. His real voice was very deep. All the Jackson’s have that “fake” voice where it’s very timid, soft and a bit on the high side.
I was lucky to have been at a Jackson video shoot over 20 years ago and Michael was speaking to the director in his normal voice and I was shocked it was him talking and then he can turn on the soft voice like a light switch. Janet, Jermaine, LaToya all have that voice.
It’s not Michael.
Nelson Eddy. He had red hair and was known as “the Brick”. Never had children and was also rumoured to be gay, though he was married.