Five Actors With Their Own Record Labels

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The world is filled with musicians who want to act and actors who want to be rock stars. But lately, some actors have recognized the limits of their musical skills and would rather save their efforts on other people they think the world needs to hear. The following five actors have started the own record labels to lend their own celebrity power to their favorite music-makers.

1. Kiefer Sutherland
Label: Ironworks
Artists: Rocco DeLuca & The Burden, Ron Sexsmith, Lifehouse, Billy Boy Poison, Jim Stapely, honeyhoney

Jack Bauer doesn’t just wait around for good music to get made. He builds a studio in L.A.‘s Silverlake neighborhood with longtime friend Jude Cole and signs some of the local talent to his own label and publishing company. “When I was a teenager, the only way I could fall asleep was to pretend I was in the band and was playing whatever song that was coming over the airwaves,” Sutherland told the TV tabloid Extra in 2005. “And trust me, in my dreams I was fantastic.” But Ironworks wasn’t created for Sutherland to make music—his first signings included Rocco DeLuca and Paste favorite Ron Sexsmith.