Sometimes the best musicians you meet..... IDK if any of you ever met Blelvis. He was a fixture in downtown DC for a while. He would come to you, (the first time) and be like, "Hello, I am Blelvis." You'd be like "Who?" and he would explain he was "Black Elvis" and he invited you to pick a topic ANY TOPIC and he would sing a relevant Elvis song. I wish I had him here, right now, I would offer up the term "PANDEMIC" but one time (cuz if you met Blelvis once you wanted to interact with him again) I asked him if he had ever been stumped and he said, no and he would sing you your song, and you would give him money and I would always say, "Dude, pick the right drugs, you are actually a good singer don't kill your vocal cords," and the first time I said that he sang me a song connected to vocal cords as bonus (I forget which one I am not so big on the Elvis pantheon but HE sure was, as a bonus.)
I don't know what happened to him but he was awesome.
I thoroughly am a fan of street musicians. Except for Joshua Bell and his "revealing" subway performance study but that is mainly because I hated Joshua Bell and his musical genius from the first Kennedy Center performance my mom dragged me to, I think he actually DOES NOT deserve more than subway change in his Stradivarius case, but meh.
I could just be jealous because he had a Strad but he was soulless and I told my mom I knew plenty of better fiddlers than "That guy." We argued. I am proud of me that I did not tell her, "No wonder you like him, you can't sing in tune." My dad's family was musical and we all were and we ALL agreed to the fact her pitch was poor. Sometimes we would all rag on her together, we were mean. If you love to sing, you should sing. Even if it's Christmas carols. They were mandatory.
