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I performed all my life. The brunt of my training was during my formative years on the streets of the world. I busked majorly in New Orleans, Boston, Baltimore, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Street style performances at Coachella, Huis Ten Bosch – Japan, New Zealand, lollapalooza, touring with Brooks & Dunn and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did what’s called a big circle show. Gather a crowd of 200 people, perform a full show (maybe 30 min long) and ask people to pay me cash in a bucket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a grueling school and very effective since i was trying to learn to be maximum engaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crowds are diverse. They’re distratcted. They mostly don’t intend to watch a show that day. I needed them to stick around the whole show. Then, i needed them to like it enough to pay me. I could perform five shows a day, so i got lots of practice. I could do whatever I wanted. I would take turns with other performers from around the world and see how they did the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I performed all my life. The brunt of my training was during my formative years on the streets of the world. I busked majorly in New Orleans, Boston, Baltimore, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Street style performances at Coachella, Huis Ten Bosch – Japan, New Zealand, lollapalooza, touring with Brooks & Dunn and Canada. 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