south american street musicians - Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. Those engaging in this practice are called buskers. Busking is a British term and is found throughout the world. In the United States the term busking is not as widely known, and so buskers there are more commonly called street performers or street musicians.

Busking performances can be just about anything that people find entertaining. Buskers may do: musical performance, clowning, comedy, improvisation, balloon modelling, dance, acrobatics, contortions and escapes, juggling, magic (illusion), fire eating, sword swallowing, snake charming, fortune-telling, present a flea circus, street theatre, street art (sketching and painting, etc.), puppeteering, storytelling or recite poetry or prose as a bard, or do mime or a currently popular mime variation where the performer simply stands still as a living statue.

People busk for a variety of reasons, including for money, for fun, the attention they get, to socialize or meet people, the love of their art, or to practice their skills or try out new material in front of an audience. Some buskers only work part time, while others make a full time living performing on the streets. Some buskers do professional entertainment gigs in addition to working the streets.

Some people manage only pocket change from busking, while others can amass substantial incomes. An act that might make money at one place and time may not work at all in another setting. A busker's income depends on many conditions, including the composition of the audience, the type and quality of the performance, and the time of day. Location can be the key, and competition from other entertainers can also play a role, both positively and negatively.

Busking can be the bottom rung of the entertainment industry, and some of the most famous groups and superstars started their careers as buskers. Examples include the Blue Man Group, Cirque Du Soleil, Stomp, Bob Hope, George Burns, Rod Stewart, Dolly Parton, Eric Clapton, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Pierce Brosnan, Robin Williams, Jason Alexander and Joni Mitchell. Many other buskers have found fame and fortune.

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[leii93nad]

name of the song is tatanka.

I'm proud of and be Indian.. and no it's not fake ..

[leii93nad]

love the song <3

[tvastar]

I know these clowns from Hungary! Playbacking, fake indians. And these band is everywhere! I have seen them in Budapest, in Kaposvár cities, and at the lake Balaton. Lol.

[jorge221090bb]

Claro... Si ustedes acumulan dinero de todo el mundo alguien tiene que sacarlo de ese lugar XD. Ustedes no son los verdaderos norteamericanos... ni siquiera americanos, Son esdounidenses hijos de ingleses que los trajeron a aquí para exterminar a las etnias originarias y sus culturas para explotar esas tierras facilmente... No hay excusa... ni siquiera la tecnología... eso no vale las vidas humanas...

[raymond08586]

Whats with the pig-latin comments?

[raymond08586]

vivilocity- yea i guess the Indians were better off without European innovations like penicilian?

[vivilocity]

Blame it on the Europeans who started this whole mess when they came into this land to invade, steal, rape, kill and leave diseases and on top of that try to force the Natives into their religons and traditions or else.

[bertrolt]

creo que se refiere a que estan usando instrumentos andinos y disfraces de indios norteamericanos

[Omithy]

25 million people now have democracy in Iraq. Those problems you listed are not the result of white men.

Cocaine is grown in South America, last time I checked. Global warming is a cyclical process. It has happened before,and it will again. With all these problems, you people still would die to come to the US. That's why Cubans come here on fucking boats. LOL. And you brown people would more than gladly cross the Rio to come here. Compared to your poor land, the problems we have are nothing.

[Omithy]

No, you are what we call the backwaters. The shithole where no person would want to live.

That's why you "Americanos" do anything to cross the fucking border and come to the white man's lair.

You couldn't do anything productive with the land before, so we did it for you.

At least you could do is say gracias, senor.