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Alice Tan Ridley, mother of Academy Award-nominated Precious star Gabourey Sidibe, performs music — beautifully — in subway stations. Above, her rendition of “I Will Survive.” Many more videos of her amazing street performances here, a pity the sound quality’s so bad on all of them: The Subway Song Stylings Of Alice Tan Ridley! (stationstops.com), and a US Magazine story about the R&B singer here. (via Farai Chideya)
Related: Here’s the raw audition tape that won Gabourey Sidibe her Precious role.
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