NPR: Vote for Your Favorite Subway Busker

Vote for Your Favorite Subway Busker

Filed under: Music

Update: Voting closed Monday at 6 a.m. See full results.

The voting continues! Watch these four clips of New York City subway buskers and choose your favorite. The winner will perform at the BPP studios.

Voting ends Monday, May 12 at 6:00AM EST.

You can also watch a story about the Music Under New York auditions, and see many more buskers, including a musician who plays an instrument without touching it.

Here are our contestants.

Zena Barakat

3:32 PM ET | 05- 7-2008 | permalink

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ARE YOU PEOPLE SERIOUS? THERE IS NO WAY THE GIBRAN GUY SHOULD BE LAST.HIS TALENT IS OBIVIOUS.NO OFFENCE TO THE OTHERS.THE AFRICAN GUY IS GOOD BUT POUND FOR POUND GIBRAN SHOULD WIN HANDS DOWN.I HAVE HEARD HIM ON THE PLATFORM HE IS UNREAL.I HAVE SEEN HIM IN THE SAME PLACE FROM LUNCH TO WHEN I GO HOME.HE PLAYS FOR HOURS ALWAYS WITH A SMILE.GIBRAN IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT HE SHOULD BE JUDGED FAIRLY.HE DESERVES TO BE THE OUR FAVORITE BUSKER..HOW AMERICAN IS AINT NO SUNSHINE..HOW COOL IS THIS GUYS TAKE ON IT...IF WE DONT SUPPORT MUSICIANS LIKE GIBRAN ...WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF MUSIC....SINCERELY THE REAL

Sent by 4real | 8:22 PM ET | 05-08-2008

This is so dissapointing.....Gibran Soul last with such a huge talent! ?? totally agree with 4real. ?? truly hope Gibran will make it.

Sent by Sharon Bernard Rasmussen | 10:28 AM ET | 05-12-2008

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