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Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Jr. (born January 31, 1951) is an American musician. He is the subject of numerous newspaper columns, a book, and a 2009 film adaptation based on the columns. A foundation bearing his name was started in 2008 with an aim to support artistically gifted people with mental illness .
Sep 16, 2023 · Nathaniel Ayers plays the cello in the hospital. When Steve Lopez met him in 2005, the Julliard-trained musician was living on Skid Row in Los Angeles, playing a violin that was missing two ...
Sep 15, 2019 · Almost 15 years later, Nathaniel Ayres lives in a locked mental rehab facility, and the rest of us live at the center of an epic collapse of care and a failure of leadership.
Nathaniel Ayers: Journey from Juilliard to Skid Row. Today, his life is about film and book projects. by Louise Lee. In some ways, Nathaniel Ayers at age 57 is a typical adult beginner on the violin. Taking his first lesson just this March, he spent the session working on proper posture, including holding the fiddle, and playing a few scales.
Apr 24, 2009 · The friendship between Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times columnist, and Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless musician, has inspired newspaper columns, a book and now a movie. In 2008, Lopez joined...
Jan 15, 2018 · The life of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, 65, is the true story behind the 2009 film, The Soloist, staring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The 65-year-old is a musical prodigy who can play...
Apr 22, 2009 · The movie The Soloist is the story of a gifted musician named Nathaniel Ayers whose mental illness drove him from the halls of The Juilliard School in New York to the streets of Los Angeles....
May 4, 2010 · The New York Times bestselling true story that inspired the major motion picture—an “unforgettable tale of hope, heart and humanity” (People). Journalist Steve Lopez discovered of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’s Skid Row.
Nov 2, 2009 · Nathaniel Ayers has schizophrenia, a mental disorder that affects his perception of reality. Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx plays him in The Soloist and says he needed to separate the man from the...
Apr 22, 2008 · Three years ago, journalist Steve Lopez met a homeless musician on skid row in Los Angeles. He soon learned that the man, Nathaniel Ayers, had once been a promising violinist, and that he had...
