“I don’t think anywhere’s really like the Bay, to be honest with you.”
Music saves lives, most literally exemplified in this SF Examiner story about Kalin Freeman (aka KJ Focus), who was playing saxophone at Montgomery station when he received a handwritten note from someone who had been contemplating suicidal thoughts. But they changed their mind when they heard him playing. Freeman, who grew up in Oakland and Richmond, isn’t just busking: “Act Right”, his latest collaboration with Deligod, samples Kendrick Lamar’s “LUST.” into a soulful R&B track complete with, yes, that life-saving sax.
