Vanja (Five-Strings) V

This is Vanessa (Vanja) Heinz from Boston, MA, a busker in Milan, at the Duomo, where we met. You look closer and see that she plays an Ibanez SR505 5-String Electric Bass, which is definitely, not her first choice instrument as she struggles to keep up with the stupid drum machine. Vanessa actually plays the harp (42 strings more) but she was left high and dry by her bass-playing boyfriend, who took her to Milan and then, one night, disappeared without a trace. She shrugged it off, picked up the abandoned guitar and figured: Kismet, "V" as in Vanja and the Roman numeral ... you gets the gig, you plays the gig. It is enough money to pay the rent and buy groceries until Jimmie finds his way home ... Vanja was always a great one to roll with the punches. Passers-by threw her  few Euro coins as she got her fingering straight and plunged into a soulful rendition of Gaėtano Bottesini's Andante sostenuto, she brought down the house!