![]() ![]() ![]() His traveling wardrobe is a black plastic bin stuffed with polyester garments and golden capes. That was part of it, dressing and feeling that way, aspiring to be an artist and songwriter and getting into the counterculture and music history. I started going to thrift stores to find vintage stuff, before it was cool, like for 50 cents each. “I got into guitar in middle school, and I wanted to be like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. When I was 1 or zero years old I was still playing, but just on pots and pans,” he said. His grandparents, Daniel and Francine DeBardi, played in rhythm-and-blues bands such as The Jive Bombers. Some lady on TikTok saw it and tagged me and put it on her TikTok, then some guy on Twitter reshared the video.”ĭeBardi never had a lesson but was always around music. “Anderson Paak, Dweezil Zappa and Lenny Kravitz, among other stars, liked and commented on the post and followed the page. ![]() “For whatever reason that one took off,” he said. It was a hot day, so he wore shorts and an open kimono to stay cool as he banged out “Molotov Cocktail Lounge” and posted it to Instagram, thinking it would be just another post with maybe a few dozen likes. The catapult to fame was a week before the tour. “I sent emails to hundreds of venues and most didn’t get back to me, but a couple took a chance on me before this happened,” he said. The words he writes belt into a mic.ĭeBardi had a hard-earned 1,200 Instagram followers when he organized a monthlong four-state tour in his 2005 Honda Odyssey blue minivan to places he’d never played and where people had never heard of him. His feet drive the double-kick pedal and hi-hat on the drums. One hand wields a drumstick, the other zips out chords on a guitar or keyboard. He realized he could do it all when the rhythm section was late and did it by accident. ![]()
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