New album 'The Phantom Five' out August 30.

Damien Dane was born Joseph Daniel Cannon in Houston, TX on December 22, 1976.  He grew up in a little blip on the radar called New Caney which is about 40 miles north of Houston and if you blink, you would totally miss it. Throughout childhood, Damien enjoyed writing music even as early as age 9, however there didn't seem to be much of a response since Country/Western and Gospel were the chosen genre of the times where he lived. Coming from a small town, Damien felt a little out of place, since music and drama we're nothing close to football and therefore shunned as girly as in most hickvilles.  He took Shotokan Karate where he earned a black belt, competed on swim team in High School, and was accepted into the Air Force but couldn't deny the entertainment bug that was gnawing away at his will to lead a normal life.

So on a really incredible LSD trip, Damien, who was performing under the name The Reverend Doctor Lotus V. Moonblossom V, and 2 of his fellow clubkids, Madame Zoe Elise and Zen D'iva, Sovereign of Cuntquistador,  who had frequented Heaven, and Club Some nightly took off on a trip of self discovery, along with discovering a lot of other peoples "selves" to the town that's big and easy... New Orleans, LA.

NOLA was a great and vibrant place not yet labeled as the city that Katrina hit and Damien played every venue he could from the bar to the bathhouse.  Sometimes even in drag, he was determined to find his self.  

After enjoying the fruits of the crescent city, Damien returned to Houston to star in Boy Meets Boy, Saturday Night at Billy's and the hit Broadway All Male, All Nude musical revue, "Naked Boy's Singing" for 2 runs.

He began concentrating more intensely on music after a series of counterproductive and sometimes overlapping relationships that seemingly always ended in drunken anger.  Luckily that is the fodder for fantastic songwriting.

His last show, Flaming Of The Shrew brought packed houses at The Betsy Stage in Denver.

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