Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's common in cities around the world, and musician Ed Sheeran recently caused a stir for doing it in India. So what is busking?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While performing to a small crowd in India's tech capital on Sunday afternoon, British singer Ed Sheeran was cut off by police who ...

Street performing, or busking, is a profession that dates back to antiquity. Before recording technology and personal electronics, it was a principal form of income for many performance artists. Still ...

JEWEL: (Singing) These foolish games are... MARTÍNEZ: B.B. King, Tracy Chapman, Ed Sheeran and Jewel all began their careers as street musicians, busking for spare change. A new book explores a ...

Footage from around 2005 shows a pre-fame Paramore hitting the street to perform some of their tunes, the Hayley Williams-led pop-rockers doing what many artists do early on in their career — busking ...

On a recent Tuesday outside Berkley's Market in downtown Dallas, singer-songwriter Alexandra Pritchard stood atop a yellow decal that read "Official Busking Location." People sat scattered around the ...

While performing to a small crowd in India's tech capital on Sunday afternoon, British singer Ed Sheeran was cut off by police who said he didn't have permission to be out playing on the street.