street musician
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstreetandmusician
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street
noun[C]
uk/striːt/us/striːt/
a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or ...
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musician
noun[C]
uk/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/us/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/
someone who is skilled in playing music, usually as ...
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(Definition ofstreetandmusicianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstreet musician
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She started out in classical guitar, but at about age 17 became astreetmusicianand dropped out of high school.
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The song tells the story of astreetmusicianpleading for someone to give him money.
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He studied music as an enka-shi or astreetmusician.
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They hired a cafeteria worker, a janitor, astreetmusician, and interns to pose as the new task force for reviewing the headquarters plans.
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He's astreetmusician, but when he's playing on the street, he is given a value and judged completely wrong by someone else.
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It tells the story of a war veteran who has become astreetmusicianafter losing one leg.
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While considering what he should do to remedy the situation, he finds a youngstreetmusiciansinging and playing a guitar.
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Tatiana left home and became astreetmusician.
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Egert, who started his career around 30 years ago as astreetmusician, is mainly a live performing artist who does around 100 live performances a year.
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The presence and activity of the street musicians represented a tradition of an authentic musical expressivity not wholly leading back to the bourgeois aesthetic.
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Augustin was a popularstreetmusician, who, according to the legend, fell into a pit with bodies of plague victims, late at night when he was drunk.
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How, one is left wondering, did women or street musicians feel, see, hear or smell when they themselves sensed otherness or discerned middle-class men hot on their scent?
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I am as anxious as anyone in the country to avoid these men becoming pedlars or street musicians.
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They started as a duo in 1979, performing as street musicians.
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Patrons invited street musicians to play evening concerts below the balconies of their homes, their friends and their lovers.
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Retail shops, restaurants, nightclubs, street musicians and sidewalk artists line it.
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The market was a popular attraction, with lower class shoppers being entertained by street musicians.
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Street musicians are known to play for tips.
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Barrel pianos were popular with street musicians, who sought novel instruments that were also highly portable.
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