Word: troubadours
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...source of lifelong frustration to him that his serious works -- the symphonies, the operas, the Mass -- were not taken more seriously. But how could they be, when they don't add up to Tonight from West Side Story? It's as if Elvis wanted to be regarded as a troubadour or an actor...
Edward comes off as an annoying troubadour with a penchant for spouting verse and a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge about the origins of everyday things. One keeps hoping in vain for the famed English reserve to come into play...
This time, though, Little Richard isn't boogieing into new musical territory but following in some unlikely footsteps: those of a rebel named Raffi. Raffi is the Canadian troubadour whose frisky tunes and kid-comfy lyrics sold 7 million copies of albums and videotapes during the early 1980s and transformed children's music from a backwater populated mainly by folk singers and people who performed preachy songs in funny voices into a booming business. Raffi has since retired from entertaining the peanut-butter-and-jelly crowd, but major record labels and musicians of every persuasion, from rock to reggae...
...That sounds so bad, like the art capital of Mongolia). So I quit my job and ate oatmeal and hotdogs two years, and did the starving writer bit. I wasn't cut out for "work work". If I had lived in the Dark Ages I would have been a troubadour. I'd never work...
Raffi now refuses to play for children. He calls himself an eco-troubadour. Sitting on the terrace of his modest Vancouver apartment, he sighs over the resentment his act of conscience has created. "I know some parents feel I've abandoned their children. But I've come to realize that unless I do my utmost to stop the destruction of the earth, there'll be no world for those young people to grow...