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I tattoo a young man who looks like he spends most of his waking moments in the gym. He came in a while ago for his first tattoo, a tribal armband. He has perfectly manicured hands, eyebrows, and tinted hair styled in a fake mohawk.

He survived the outline, beaded in sweat and humming but did well. I’m packin’ the black as I come to the inside of his arm, he starts to squirm again. His humming becomes louder.

As I’m tattooing him, the squirming gets worse and I tell him. “Hey, if you need to sing, sing. But I need you to hold still.”

He says “really, you don’t mind?”

I laughed and said,” like I care just hold still”

He said ” okay, but can you shut the door?”

Whatever, I shut the door, thinking his voice probably sucks and he doesn’t want anyone to hear. Start tattooing again… and the boy starts to sing.

OMG not only was he a good singer, but he busted out into Aretha Franklin’s “Natural Woman”.

I stopped tattooing and stared at him and told my self “don’t laugh, don’t laugh, don’t laugh.”

I finished the tattoo, with a straight face ~ barely, as he sang a string of old Motown hits.

He payed me said thanks and asked, “hey, your not going to tell anyone about that singing thing are you?”

I couldn’t help it, I busted up. He started laughing too. ” You have a good voice, don’t worry about it… but I am telling everybody, that’s some funny shit. I won’t tell them who you are, but I am telling everyone.”

He was cool with that and we had a good laugh over it. He’s been back for more since, the last session started with Donna Summers . . .