“Wesley Willis, the energetic 6’5”, 300-pound Chicago street musician who parlayed whimsical, spartan keyboard odes to his favorite products and indie rock musicians into a cult following, died on Thursday night at a hospice in Illinois; he was forty.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18568
“I am a rock soloist..I am a rock singer on the Wesley Willis Fiasco”