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LOS ANGELES — A homeless woman whose angelic singing in a Los Angeles subway was captured on video is being offered praise and help.
But several years ago, the violin, which Zamourka said was worth thousands of dollars, was snatched and broken.
“It was my income,” Zamourka told KNBC-TV. “It was everything to me.”
Zamourka told KABC-TV that she played an electric violin for a while until someone pushed her off a bus and fractured her wrist.
Zamourka said she fell behind on rent and was evicted.
“I am sleeping actually on the cardboard right now, in the parking lot,” she said. “I am sleeping where I can sleep … I have people that feel sorry for me, but I don’t want to be a burden to anybody.”
Without her violin, Zamourka took to singing for a living in addition to receiving $400 a month in government aid, the Times said.
Zamourka has no classical training, but she told the Times she used to imitate opera singers as a child in Russia.
4 million people call LA home. 4 million stories. 4 million voices…sometimes you just have to stop and listen to one, to hear something beautiful. pic.twitter.com/VzlmA0c6jX
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) September 27, 2019
She likes the acoustics of the subway tunnels.
“You know why I do it in the subway?” Zamourka told KNBC-TV. “Because it sounds so great.”
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