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| 1/18/2022

"I’ve got the rubber ducky and everything."

-- Nik Sharp

Nik Sharp could sell anything — songs, sandwiches, shoe shines, Sinatra. But he wasn’t a salesman.

He was a performer.

Sharp, whose legal name was Nikolas Panagopoulos, was an entrepreneur and musician, but neither of those titles really fit.

“Nik was a genuine rock star,” said friend Seth Kushner.

Rock stars call their local newspaper for an interview from the bathtub. They sell out shows. They crackle with electricity on stage and off. And they make people feel something.

Sharp, who spent years performing as the singer-guitarist for the band Suburban Tragedy before moving to Nashville, Tenn., in 2015, died Dec. 15 of a heart attack. He was 42 and just starting his next big thing.

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