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unusual facts about street musician



Edouard Lapaglie

During the mid-1970s he earned a living as a street musician in Paris and Fréjus when, following an attack by two French locals with a baseball bat, he returned to the UK arriving in Leeds in 1977.


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Bull City Red

A partial albino, Red was a street musician in Durham before becoming the sole sighted member of a band managed by talent scout J. B. Long that included at various times Fuller, Sonny Terry and Davis.

Geert R. A. Kliphuis

Working as a street-musician in Brussels, the former West-Berlin, Barcelona, Hamburg, London and Paris during the 1970s and 1980s, Kliphuis wrote an extensive series of short travel stories for NRC Handelsblad, the national newspaper published in Rotterdam.

Kirk Reeves

Kirk Reeves (1956–2012), also known as "Working" Kirk Reeves, was an American street musician and entertainer best known for playing a trumpet on the west bank bridgehead of the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon while wearing a Mickey Mouse hat and a white suit.

Street people

Examples of well-known street people are José María López Lledín who lived a public life on the streets of Havana during the 1950s, Mr. Butch of Boston, Leslie Cochran of Austin, Juan of Seattle, or Louis Thomas Hardin ("Moondog") who was a street musician, inventor, and later homeless person in the 1940s through to 1970s in New York City.