I stumbled across videos about Wesley Willis after seeing a couple of his drawings in a folk art auction. I had no idea Mr. Willis was also a musician of sorts. Mr. Willis was born in 1963 and passed in 2003. I don’t know a lot of detail about his life. Apparently he suffered from schizophrenia. He was a visual artist before he was a musician. At one point he fronted a punk bank called the Wesley Willis Fiasco. He liked to sing/shout strange, sometimes obscene lyrics of the auto-accompaniment feature of an electronic keyboard. His music has been referred to as “savant-guard”. There are some documentaries about Mr. Willis on YouTube if you’re interested.
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