♪ >> we're here for sound of the streets. we're going to highlight some of the people performing in the streets as you go about your daily routine. for some it's their craft, it's their love and oh, by the way, they want to make it big. let's start old town, alexandria, where you probably stop and seen jamie turner, he's o

wars" to mow discard to glass harp. "fox5" photo journalist doug will bees has his story. >> i'm james jury turner and my instrument is called the glass harp. i've been plague over 40 years. i had all these glasses i've been gathering for yours and started putting them together in scales. and just kept on working with it. it took me one year and 28 glasses to learn the first mozart piece written for glass and then i was absolutely hooked. ♪ if you play an instrument, it's very satisfying

then it doesn't matter how long you play it. you just still become even more enjoyable. and a little flat. as i was walking a way from the dining room table when i was 6 years old my dad started playing a wine glass. everyone in the place was musical. they all started playing stem glasses, kids water glasses and adults, wine glasses. and i heard these beautiful cords coming from the dining room table. and and this became my first sound at the age of 6. i watched as many -- want as many people as possible to experience the beauty because it's rare people can experience such beauty

the streets. >> scott >> scott joplin. this is my first sound in the whole world. this next performer has been captivating audiences all over the dmv. she's been performing since third grade and her dream is to be a big star like ella, "fox5" photo journalist tells us all about time. >> my name is patricia tommy i was raised in temple hills, maryland. i've been street performing for five years

it i've been singing since three years old. i'll be here. left it up. i was in the car with my parents one time and my parents heard me singing this whitney houston song. i heard it plenty of times. basically i sang it and sounded like coye sing. >> mic check, one, two, untwo my name is tommy i'm sing are from the dmv. i'll sing a few songs for you guys if that's all right. let's wait for the ambulance to go by. >> all right, all right, all right. >> i've been drinking, i've been drinking♪ i've been street performing for about five years now. so i street perform probably about four, five days out of the week for eight hours. i know street performing is not typical thing artists do when they want to get discovered. but because i enjoy it so much i don't keep track of time or

what's going on around me. >> thank you. thank you. >> let's have some fun♪ ♪ my dad is like, he's like my biggest supporter, like my coproducer, comanager. my mom is always coming to my shows. and my brothers, sisters they come to my shows as well. my family is very supportive. if i had one wish it would be for everyone to have love in their heart. because right now there is not a lot of love going on in the world and that's why i'm doing what i'm doing now. to promote love and to just make people feel good. if there's one

promote, it would be love. ♪ ♪ thank you. thank you, thank you for v vibeing with me on that one. >> before we head to break a little magic. i didn't really nail that. how about we stick to sounds on the streets. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> welcome back to the legendary howard theater. beyond the lens, sounds ever streets. there's a little magic involved as well. "fox5" photo journalist takes us inside one man's sound of tricks. >> this is what happens when you make career decisions age 3♪ what i like most about street magic is people have no idea that you're going to be there. >> what's your name. >> ashley. >> ashley. >> that's correct. >> they're completely surprised that you are even there and that they're meeting a real mathematician and then you surprise them with the effect. they're not anticipating

they're just stroll ago long enjoying their day and boom, something impossible happens. >> whoa. >> it's a communication. >> ouch. >> ew. >> i'm communicating with the audience. >> what i'm about to show you completely impossible. >> and they see it visually. >> anywhere, anywhere, right there? >> their response comes back to me as another communication. >> queen of clubs. >> woo. >> it feels like i just snapped them out of a moment where they may have been jaded or felt like they had seen everything and then suddenly i show them something new and they light up. >> the apex, the crux, the biggest moments are often little things that happen all day as people drop their barriers, after seeing magic and you really just kind of touching someone's day for a brief moment and then they move on and they're like, wow

connect with people on that level anywhere. >> abracadabra. >> when they're not even expecting it randomly. i'm exploring the changing realities of the audience and shifting my street magic to match that. throughout the years i would roll a coin down the back of my hand and borrow a coin from somebody and make it disappear. now many aren't carrying coins. >> thank four that face. >> i used to be known for a floating want i would fly around a an area and people would go whoa and they would be blown awe and slowly that faded and i changed it to a selfie stick with with a camera on top and float that and suddenly bam it was whoa again. i'm shifting street magic do i to stuff people have in their pockets ready to go. >> you can turn your cellphone screen on for you. >> cell

all of those things people use every day. that's what i want to do magic with so street magic is real to them. >> i need it to be extra, extra shiny. >> relevant to them right through the middle here. >> and even stronger to them. my favorite part about being a magician is all the people you get to meet. >> still ahead, he's using violin with hip hop. you have to see this unique combination of music. it's a nice little fusion. before we get to that, how about some more" sounds from the streets." >> i'm from d.c. but i travel all over from the west coast and all over the east coast: this is just another way to earn extra income. ♪

>> we couldn't do sound of the street without hip hop. marvelous deets martin. he's not related to me by the way. he has a violin and infuse it's with hip hop. steve williams tells us what is so marvelous about the other martin. >> you setting up with me? let them know it's real♪ ♪ violin first off was i took private lesson when's 8 years old back in new york and then i got into making hip hop later in high school and i did not combine both of them until in my early 20s. this is my brother when he the

we're not twins. we're exactly two years ar apart. 23 i'm 21♪ ♪ >> we see people outside never see them busting with the violin but you see the drums and sax phone. ♪ it's a medium that speaks to everybody. i don't have to speak a language for to you get me or feel me. that's something i experience every day on the streets♪ ♪ ♪ easy way to share your soul with somebody. ♪

i've been doing this cons consistently for almost a year, 11 1/2 months. as far as playing this instrument, 19 years. ♪ >> busting is the free lang way for artist to free lance. hit the streets where you're legally allowed to be and share your talent. ♪ >> grab my speaker, grab my guitar cable, plug up and i'm rockin'. ♪

>> life changed drastically in the last year, how? being able to set your own schedule and you don't have to clock n i've been blessed to be able to come out here and do this and make a living. being able to benefit directly from the hard work i put in. it's all the same vibe that soulfull hip hop harmy type of stuff. ♪ she came all the way from new zealand to the streets of washington d.c. to mack a name in the streets and hopes of one day being on a stage like this at the legendary howard the theater. "fox5" photo journalist will coki has an a story about the amazing emma jean. ♪ ♪

>> the buzz here is incredible. the people here are wonderful. entertainment is wonderful. everything is on point. the love in the air is just really high. >> how are we doing? are we well? are we happy? are we wearing suncreen? >> coming from new zealand you have an appreciation for american culture specifically black american culture. moving to d.c. and learning about the riots and learning about the history of this city, and knowing that it's the longest running establishment, it's an incredible privilege to be here. ♪ ♪ killing me softly with his s song♪ >> i write about real stuff. i don't -- it is around

empowerment and community and love for self and love for each other and community and for the world. ♪ ♪ music is one of those universal ways of communication and connection. and so whenever i get on stage i make it my mission to fall in love with the audience and hopefully one or two people fall in love with me. ♪ so i literally wrote this song three weeks ago. two days later i performed it at my two year app versey party of living in america and five days after that i was in the studio. ♪

i was air bnb giving a speech in california and my host happened to be a video maker and so he looked at me and said well do you want to shoot a music video. we did and wentp top venice beach and had a really great time. >> stay positive. the universe needs more love. if you can get love from music for life and for smiling at random strangers take positive and keep working hard. ♪ i want to be the best version of myself i can. and if music can help me get there then let's do this together. ♪ >> how about some more" sounds from the streets"♪

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>> welcome back to beyond the lens, sounds of the streets. this performer had his life turned upside down when his brother was killed by police and it's a story you saw on "fox5"and that tragedy led him to pickp a guitar. our photo journalist has the story. >> it's like a muscle memory thing. it's like a -- it's just there. my brother the one that pass away. it was his guitar right here the guitar he got for his birthday. ♪ and now, for no reason,

it's already happened. ♪ music helped a lot. i can literally say i have the blues for real. ♪ it changed me and the way i applied played. ever since then i play with a sled side now. a shred side now. ♪ you got me straight. he's the long lost secondary hendricks♪ somebody about that mruz and blues and hip

it nobody come closer than jimmy hendricss. he had a side nobody would talk about and that's making guitars literally talk like literally talking. ♪ nobody ever heard it. but this was in 60s, like this was in the '60s. ♪ and this guitar talks. ♪ it feels like -- i feel like i'm a cameed tiger. and i just blackout life. ♪ and a tiger somehow get out of that

he just flew out of it. ♪ there's a world out here. this is bigger. go out and tour the world and do it with this baby, my little stevie hendricks guitar. take this and travel ever everywhere, you know? ♪ just to leave something on the earth that everybody will remember me by, everybody will know, you know, that that kid, that played the guitar, went really far and didn't stop. ♪ >>

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announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: ok, happy fourth of july, everybody! [cheers and applause] ok. here's what we're doing today. we're going to play a game where we're going to put two of you against each other, which i ove, and then you're going to use the blue and blow up a balloon and you have to blow it up until the clues spill out. if you get the clues, you get a bottle of champagne. who's going first? >> nicki and patrick. harvey: and go! >> nicki! >> i put a hole in it. harvey: wait a minute, what happened some >> it's not working. i need a different balloon. this isn't working. >> sometimes the balloon is just nervous. [laughter] >> yes, you're