Wayne Newton On 'Hoodwinked Too,' Why He Still Loves Vegas

Wayne Newton has performed over 30,000 solo shows and recorded 165 albums. Now Newton, a.k.a Mr. Las Vegas, is lending his signature voice to Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, an animated film about the new adventures of some familiar fairy tale characters.

Newton, who hails from Norfolk, Va., is best known for his song, "Danke Sheon," the first single that brought his soft-yet-burly voice fame. Newton began his career singing in local bars, clubs, and theaters in Newark, Ohio, where he spent part of his childhood with his brother Jerry. During his junior year of high school, he was discovered by a Las Vegas agent based on his performance on the Lew King Ranger show. He and his brother performed together for five years doing six shows a day and made several appearances during that time on the Jackie Gleason Show and spent over 40 years being a Las Vegas stage star. Today, Newton is such a Las Vegas staple, that the main terminal in McCarren International Airport is named after him.

Aside from singing, Newton has taken on other television projects, such as the show, The Entertainment on E! in 2005 and he was a cast member on Dancing With The Stars in 2007 with professional dancer, Cheryl Burke as his partner.

In Hoodwinked Too, Newton got to play Jimmy “The Snitch” 10-Strings, a character slightly out of his comfort zone. “I like playing the bad guy sometimes because there are different colors to bad,” he told Uinterview exclusively. “You could be a bad boy or you could be a slimeball or you could be the guy you don’t want to mess with. A good guy is just a good guy, and that’s easy to do.”