Outsider music
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Outsider music is music created by self-taught or naïve musicians. The term is usually applied to musicians who have little or no traditional musical experience, who exhibit childlike qualities in the
Street performer Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, sometimes cited as the "godfather of outsider music"
Wesley Willis
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Wesley Lawrence Willis was an American musician and visual artist. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition. Will
Outsider music
…musicians often overlap with lo-fi artists, since their work is rarely captured in professional recording studios. Examples include Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, and Jandek, who each became the subjects of documentary films in the 2000s. The term "outsider music" is traced to the definitions of "outsider art…
Willis in October 2000
Willis's star on the outside mural of the Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue