Performs:
Steel drum.
From: Trinidad & Tobago. Antoine
arrived in New York in the 1970s, and has been playing in the subways
and streets since 1990. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
Favorite Spots: Broadway-Nassau
Street and Franklin Avenue subway stations.
Best Day's Take: $100 and change.
He plays four or five days a week, four to five hours per day.
Claim To Fame: Toured throughout
Europe and the world with the BWIA Sunjet Steel Orchestra starting
in the 1960s.
On Busking: "I like playing for
people. Making them happy. There's a lot of sad people in the subway."
Text and photos by street photographer Joseph
O. Holmes
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