# Anybody comparable to Allie Sherlock?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 14, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-comparable-to-allie-sherlock/1000272 "2024-04-14T16:44:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-comparable-to-allie-sherlock/1000272/1 "2024-04-14T16:44:31Z")

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Is there anybody comparable to Allie Sherlock in already having made it as a well-known singer and yet still regularly singing on the street? Her latest video (still being streamed as I write is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWUm1pwB3w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWUm1pwB3w) and you can click on her Wikipedia entry at [Allie Sherlock - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allie_Sherlock) and see her older videos at [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGnsRwFS8Xm13lMAeouzT9g](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGnsRwFS8Xm13lMAeouzT9g).

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-comparable-to-allie-sherlock/1000272/2 "2024-05-05T13:38:44Z")

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There has been no reply to this, so I’m asking the question again. Incidentally, the location where she sings using Google Maps Street Views is [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/@53.341204,-6.2604861,3a,37.5y,68.64h,83.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sen8og-eD-PbtEc9SfPu7EA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu), which is 71 Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland. I can’t find by searching any account of a well-known singer who still regularly sings on the street. The websites that come up are either about someone who originally sang on the street and quit doing that when they became famous or else about someone famous who once sang on the street after becoming famous.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-comparable-to-allie-sherlock/1000272/3 "2024-05-10T14:27:52Z")

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Say, can anyone think of someone who, having made it as a well-known singer still regularly busks on the street?

I’m hoping so, it’d be great, but I got nothin’ (other than clips like U2 playing in a subway station).

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-comparable-to-allie-sherlock/1000272/4 "2024-05-10T16:32:17Z")

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There are musicians who started with street singing and then became famous as in  
[https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/famous-musicians-buskers/](https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/famous-musicians-buskers/)

There are famous musicians who just one time after becoming famous sang on the street to surprise a street singer or an audience not expecting them.

But Sherlock is the only example I know of of someone who continues to sing on the street the way she always has.