Blake Lewis: Ready to Rock Seattle

Published: July 27, 2007, 8:14 am

Forget for a moment whether or not Blake Lewis has a girlfriend. We do know for sure that he loves his hometown of Seattle. “I’ll never not live in Seattle, I love it so much,” the famous Bothell beatboxer told The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a phone interview while en route to an American Idols concert in Alabama. “People ask me, ‘Are you moving to California?’ I say, ‘Like, hell no.’ Seattle is so wonderful.” But it isn’t just the scenery that makes Seattle wonderful. It’s the music scene. “There’s the fact that people moved away after the grunge scene died and there’s no spotlight on this town that has so much music to offer. That’s sad. So I’m going to come back and start setting up shows at like the Vera Project and do more youth events in the hip-hop community.” Lewis, who just turned 26, was an audience favorite in this year’s competition, but came in second. Along with

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