I guess projecting my voice in the open has left a mark on my style. Later I switched to the open air, streets and squares, and have always had a taste for really good acoustics. I started out singing and strumming guitar, and when I was 14 I found myself in the Paris Metro, singing with those stunningly beautiful acoustics. I don’t seem to run into many street performing one-man bands anymore. The best-known one-man bands in my book are Don Partridge and, of course, Jesse Fuller. Snyder: Every one-man band has his own style it is not really a technical discipline in the way that guitar players compete to see who’s the fastest. Who was your inspiration to start a one-man band?īernard M. He has played for as many as 30,000 people and owns and maintains which streams videos of his performances. Snyder continues to tour as a one-man band and divides his time between Europe, the U.S. He met his wife, a New Yorker named Tova, while in Israel and the couple have since settled in Italy. Starting off in Zürich, Switzerland, he began touring the world. “It looked like they were having fun, playing to bigger audiences, getting more attention, and wearing bigger hats.” The German-born Snyder became a one-man band in 1980, after having played in rock bands as a teenager. “I saw other performers, who had previously been guitarists/singers, put drums on their backs,” he says about why he became one. Snyder, who has been a one-man band for nearly three decades. What happened to these walking spectacles of sound that they perform alone? “Many people don’t know that a lot of us chose to be street performers because it’s fun and rewarding,” says Bernard M.
Much like carny folk and other street performers, there is a good bit of mystery surrounding one-man bands.
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