United Kingdom, April 21 -- Dwayne 'The Rock ' Johnson used to dream of becoming a country music singer.

The 51-year-old Hollywood star has carved out solid careers as an actor, businessman, and WWE legend but remembered that his late father

Rocky Johnson - who was a professional wrestler himself but died in 2020 at the age of 75 - introduced him to the Southern genre.

He told 'Entertainment Tonight': "By the time I was eight years old, I could sing every Hank Jr. song, a lot of Hank Sr. songs, Merle [Haggard] songs, Johnny Paycheck.

"I was in Nashville when I was 15 years old, we had no money. I was living in a motel, I had the bright idea that I could become a country star.

"I went down to Broad Street and I started hanging out in ...