Oceanside's Kane tells her life story onstage in 'Toughest Girl
Alive'   As the director of San Diego Ballet, Javier Velasco
needed a song about a tough girl for a piece he was
choreographing, so he googled the phrase: "tough girl song." One
popped up by Oceanside resident and professional blues singer
Candye Kane.  "I wasn't a fan of hers at the time," recalled
Velasco. "But I got interested in her story, which she had on
her website."  Two years later, Velasco met Kane for pizza and
said he was interested in turning her story into a play. That
fit right in with Kane's plans, as she was finishing up her
autobiography. Within a week, Velasco had the outline for his
play called "The Toughest Girl Alive (The stranger-than-fiction
story of an ex-gang member, unwed teen mother, rockabilly, punk
rock, plus-sized, ex-adult film star, cancer-surviving, multi-
award-winning, bisexual, blue phenomenon Candye Kane)."  "Javier
did a marvelous job of editing my story and interspersing my
songs," said Kane, adding that the