Kev Crane will fit his last bathroom in January before he starts touring as a Hollywood film is set to be made about his unlikely road to success after being overheard singing
A British plumber has landed a Hollywood deal after he was overheard singing while fitting a bathroom.
Kev Crane, 51, says he is fitting his last bathroom in January before his dreams come true and he begins touring. He was offered a recording deal after he was overheard singing by the owner of a record label. Record producer Paul Conneally was “amazed” by Kev’s “shell suit perfect ’80s” voice.
After his first single was released, Hollywood screenwriters heard about his story in the Washington Post. Kev has since been flown to LA for meetings with director Billy Ray, who wrote the screenplay for 2012 blockbuster The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips (2013) starring Tom Hanks.
Kev told Sky News: “I was singing in the bathroom, the next door neighbour heard me singing away, he said to Paul who owns News Reality Records ‘who’s that guy singing in your bathroom?’ he says ‘the plumber.’ We get chatting and he tells me he has a record label – I say ‘actually I’ve just built a recording studio in my loft and reignited an album I started 25 years ago.'”
Billy said the movie would be called “The Music Inside” and that they would get “someone spectacular” for the starring role. Speaking to BBC Radio Leicester, Kev’s wife Karen…
