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Inqlings: Did shady faux Bono fool U2?
By Michael Klein
Inquirer Columnist
What in the name of love was Bono doing in town last weekend?
It wasn't Bono.
The wrap-shaded guy in black leather was Pavel Sfera, a Bono impersonator who had sung at the Saturday-night wedding of South Jersey U2 fans Karen and Martin Smith at the Ben Franklin. (So it was in the name of love.)
Sfera caused heads to turn Monday at the Marathon Grill at 16th and Sansom Streets. He said staff and customers had approached him with sweet nothings of "Are you?" and "I love that Joshua Tree album."
His response was a smile. "I had some fun with them," Sfera said by phone from his next stop, Kansas City, Mo., where he appeared with other celeb impersonators for Sam's Club. Sfera, who emigrated as a baby from Yugoslavia with his Romanian parents in 1969, is based in L.A.; check out his Web site, www.bonolookalike.com. He and his band do two to five appearances a month, plus charity dates.
Sfera said he didn't try to mislead people - even when they deserved to be fooled: "I mean, I'm talking and they ask, 'Do you usually drop your Irish accent in public?' "
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080210_Inqlings__Did_shady_faux_Bono_fool_U2_.html
By Michael Klein
Inquirer Columnist
What in the name of love was Bono doing in town last weekend?
It wasn't Bono.
The wrap-shaded guy in black leather was Pavel Sfera, a Bono impersonator who had sung at the Saturday-night wedding of South Jersey U2 fans Karen and Martin Smith at the Ben Franklin. (So it was in the name of love.)
Sfera caused heads to turn Monday at the Marathon Grill at 16th and Sansom Streets. He said staff and customers had approached him with sweet nothings of "Are you?" and "I love that Joshua Tree album."
His response was a smile. "I had some fun with them," Sfera said by phone from his next stop, Kansas City, Mo., where he appeared with other celeb impersonators for Sam's Club. Sfera, who emigrated as a baby from Yugoslavia with his Romanian parents in 1969, is based in L.A.; check out his Web site, www.bonolookalike.com. He and his band do two to five appearances a month, plus charity dates.
Sfera said he didn't try to mislead people - even when they deserved to be fooled: "I mean, I'm talking and they ask, 'Do you usually drop your Irish accent in public?' "
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080210_Inqlings__Did_shady_faux_Bono_fool_U2_.html
