
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 $2000. 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 <b>...</b>
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