The King of Skid Row
He's known as `The King' of Skid Row.
But it's not the baseball cap crowning his head or the karaoke microphone he carries like a scepter that earned Roland Burris the nickname. Tony Castro in the Daily News.
It's the voice - the pain of poverty and addiction coming out in the ballads and blues - that spark comparisons to that world-famous singer.
"He sure sounds like The King, doesn't he?" says Billy Blade, a neighbor of Burris at the Lamp Lodge, a transitional housing complex in the heart of Los Angeles' Skid Row.
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Los Angeles Daily News City Hall reporter Rick Orlov writes about politics on the local, state and national stage.
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