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All of the music on the Streetnote label was recorded live in the streets.
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All of the music on the Streetnote label was recorded live in the streets.
Enjoy!
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Song description
Robert Close, maiden lane
april 2002
"Well, I started singing in 1973 right after high school, and, I studied in Italy and wasn’t planning on doing this a lot, you know, singing on the streets. Oh, well, it was about 1983 and, on a hot July night, I was living in San Raphel and was working at the opera house, but, during the summer we didn’t have jobs back then, so my wife suggested we go to the warf with our two little babies, which were one and two, and I sang opera out there with a boom box and a few cassette tapes (which I always use for practice.) It was a Friday night and was amazed with the amount of money I made in one hour. Partly, not so much the money was surprising, but the response from the people was so good. And I kept doing this through the eighties, you know, I did opera core every fall, and then in 1988, my wife took sick and she passed away in april 89. I had to have a job so I could raise the kids, so I started singing in front of Macy's in the spring. I started to really click down at Macy's as the “the guy who sings in front of Macys”and you know, I did that for the better part until 1993 and then I got in Phantom of the Opera in San San Francisco. I did the show for seven and a half years and at that time I was not allowed to do anything on the streets. Then I said to myselrf, after the kids are in college (which they are at now), I would actually start doing more Opera, so I came back to the street , ohh, three years ago."
april 2002
"Well, I started singing in 1973 right after high school, and, I studied in Italy and wasn’t planning on doing this a lot, you know, singing on the streets. Oh, well, it was about 1983 and, on a hot July night, I was living in San Raphel and was working at the opera house, but, during the summer we didn’t have jobs back then, so my wife suggested we go to the warf with our two little babies, which were one and two, and I sang opera out there with a boom box and a few cassette tapes (which I always use for practice.) It was a Friday night and was amazed with the amount of money I made in one hour. Partly, not so much the money was surprising, but the response from the people was so good. And I kept doing this through the eighties, you know, I did opera core every fall, and then in 1988, my wife took sick and she passed away in april 89. I had to have a job so I could raise the kids, so I started singing in front of Macy's in the spring. I started to really click down at Macy's as the “the guy who sings in front of Macys”and you know, I did that for the better part until 1993 and then I got in Phantom of the Opera in San San Francisco. I did the show for seven and a half years and at that time I was not allowed to do anything on the streets. Then I said to myselrf, after the kids are in college (which they are at now), I would actually start doing more Opera, so I came back to the street , ohh, three years ago."
Credits
| Recorded by | tim nutt |
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