Denver Homeless street musician a STAR at Internet & iTunes

A homeless Denver man who plays regularly on the 16th Street Mall has made it onto iTunes.
David Adebonojo, who uses the performance name Dred Scott, moved to Denver sixteen years ago for the music scene. He found work and had an apartment. But then things went wrong. The apartment was infested by bed bugs.
"I couldn't work because I wasn't sleeping. Then I got behind in rent," he told TV.
Now he does what he loves full time, but income is inconsistent.
"I've come out here, set up, played, broke a string, made a dollar, and left. I've come out here, played, and made $300," he said.
Three weeks ago local musician Tyler Ward stumbled onto Adebonojo's talent.
"I had dinner on 16th street mall and right after I came outside I was walking outside and on the corner, I heard this amazing sound and was like, 'Who is that?'"
Joining forces with a Christian outreach group His Love Street, Ward shot a video for YouTube of Adebonojo performing. This week they got an EP of Dred Scott's music on iTunes. It has already generated almost $2,000.
It wasn't enough right away to take him off the streets, but Adebonojo is hopeful the help he's getting to get his music heard will change his life for the better.
"That's what these guys have done for me ... you know, take my music and make it available to larger groups of people," said Adebonojo, who says the Internet was the "next logical step" for him but he didn't know enough about the web to figure out how to make it happen.
Ward, who runs an online independent label, would love to see Adebonojo get popular enough to be able to get off the streets and into clubs, and perhaps tour.
Adebonojo says his music is something akin to "anti-pop."
"Pop is like the majority of everything so there has to be a counterweight on it. There has to be serious music. And I provide serious music."

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[PepeRockable]

this shows once again that music can be real honest and lets you feel it ...

not like justin bieber and all that computer made crapy stuff and they dont even write tje lyrics they pay for them ...

thumbs up for this dude !!!

and f*** the dislike!!!!

[HisLoveStreet]

Finally!! Dred D. Scott's first single is on sale now and his Full CD will be on sale October 1st 2011.

His Love Corporation-H.I.S Label.

Watch for us next week on CBS "The Early Show".

Buy at His Love Street.com

[FUNKYBLOK]

This system is straight twisted. All over the world.

[HyperElf9]

@rikaze Word!!!

[rikaze]

seriously, if people have the time to REPORT him on the news, then someone GET HIM A HOUSE A RECORD DEAL AND A LIFE! how the hell do people like this end up homeless and jobless while we have strippers ruling the music industry just escapes me...

[zachface01]

he should go on the x factor

[zCreatorz]

dred scott is the first black person to graduate from college in the 1800s. or something like that. either way, he knows his american history

[Latabrine]

I LOVE TYLER WARD! Awesome that he did that for dred !

[Krismac242]

retiring comfortable is an attainable goal if you are starting from humble origins.

[guitarrookie1974]

@PepeRockable amen

[phatguycometh]

I would go to one of his shows, i bought the song, we need to do our part what little it may be to help others.

[TheMarrProject]

I met him tonight on 16th Street. He is AMAZING! go to i-tunes!!