Vince Mira Won't Walk the Line
Billed as the Second Coming of Johnny Cash, a teenager from Federal Way wowed rock stars, morning news shows, Ellen DeGeneres, and the Cash estate. There’s just one problem: Vince Mira is done parroting the Man in Black.
Back in the Can Can dressing room on a recent Tuesday, Mira stood before the mirror sculpting his pompadour until it looked like the fin on a midnight-black ’57 Chevy. His mom sat off to the side, looking at his reflection. Lupe’s concerns have nothing to do with her son’s Johnny Cash problem. Record labels have approached Mira, yet Lupe has urged turning the offers down. “I don’t want this to get too big too fast,” she said. “He’s too young.”
A few minutes later Mira could be heard outside the dressing room, up on stage, picking through the opening chords of Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” Lupe struggled with one last question. Where’d he get it? How did this happen to your shy son? She searched for an answer but was distracted. One of the most beautiful voices she or her questioner ever heard filled the dressing room. “Ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe.”
Published: July 2009
I dug the Johnny Cash act, (have you ever seen it? It’s A-MAZ-ING) but there has already been a Johnny Cash – And Vince is amazing enough to pull his own weight and not just ride on the man-in-black’s coattails.
If he knows what is good for him, he’ll start refusing to sing like Cash. It’s just too eery.
Thank you for pleasing us and sing for us, you have improved A LOT and I am very impress and proud of you because I know how hard it is to feel alone and You are back. Te quiero mucho. Thanks again.