Nathaniel Ayers

Steve Lopez, a writer for the Los Angeles Times newspaper has chronicled Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless musician with schizophrenia who sleeps on skid row. His story was on 60 Minutes last year and a movie was made about his story which starred Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Fox. Here is a link to an article by Steve Lopez about Nathaniel Ayers.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-me-lopez-skidrow-nathaniel-series,0,290300.special


Now, Nathaniel Ayers has cut his first CD with the help of some friends. Congratulations, and here is a link to the article about his new CD.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez3-2010feb03,0,3503177.column?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Flocal+%28L.A.+Times+-+California+%7C+Local+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Another link.


http://kcet.org/socal/2010/02/the-soloist-in-a-duet.html

Nathaniel Ayers performed this last Monday at an event sponsored by President Obama at the White House. Here's a link to the article.


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0728-lopez-column-20100728,0,7288251.column?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Flocal+%28L.A.+Times+-+California+%7C+Local+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher