Dwayne Johnson’s Dream To Be A Country Star | Billboard News

Dwayne Johnson confesses how at one point he wanted to be a country star, his upcoming performance with Chris Janson and more!

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00:00It's crazy. It is an empty bar. That's a good one. It's a great one.

00:05Dwayne The Rock Johnson is a true country fan, but did you know he's a country singer too?

00:19Dwayne Johnson may have appeared in Chris Jansen's music video for What You See Is What

00:23You Get, but he's not just there for his good looks. He's got singing chops too.

00:28I can tell you that he had surprised and blessed me with an open invitation from himself and the

00:35Opry for me to join him on the Opry stage, which I cannot wait to do. That's a dream come true.

00:42He told us how he almost became a country singer when he was evicted from Hawaii as a teenager

00:47and discovered the country scene in Nashville.

00:50I was in Piggly Wiggly singing, like not caring, and I was singing a

00:56Hank song. I'll never forget a woman came around and she kind of looked at me and I thought I'd

01:01done something wrong. She goes, oh, I just came around to see who was singing. And she goes,

01:05do you sing? And I'm 15. And I went, no, I just love to sing. I love country. She goes,

01:11you should go down to Broad Street. That's where all the singers are. Yeah. And I went, okay. And

01:18that's when I started hanging out on Broad trying to get a gig at these honky tonks because I had

01:23this dream in my head that I was or delusion that I was going to be a country music star.

01:31A hotspot Dwayne and Chris both frequented when they were teenagers is the famous Tootsies.

01:36For me to be able to go to say Tootsies on stage with this guy or the Mecca Grand Ole Opry

01:43is full circle.

01:44Full circle for me is I haven't been back into Tootsies since I started there.

01:48My first year in town, that will be the first time I will be back in there as well.

01:52So we'll do it together. It'll be the first time together that we've been

01:55back in there since we were there.

01:57And the Rock's got another famous country friend, Jelly Roll, who he discovered at a low point.

02:022017, I was going through a rough time. A lot of pressure as life brings all of us.

02:07Song popped up on my playlist, Out of the Blue. But then again, as we know with moments like that,

02:12it's never out of the blue. That's God. It's the universe. And it's a song called Only.

02:17The darkness inside of me is finally taking my soul.

02:22Me and rock me to the core when I heard that song.

02:24I just started to follow him and didn't reach out to him or anything like that.

02:28And then we just started to come together and become great friends.

02:31And I appreciate his music and I appreciate him as a human being and

02:34being a Nashville guy too as well. And yeah, that was a special song.