Singing Frank Sinatra flew Kim to the moon

It only took 45 minutes to change Robert Kim’s life. Hoping to salvage an unsuccessful overnight fishing trip in Peachtree City, he took a karaoke machine and his schnauzer, Roscoe, to the nearby Kroger. Kim—a retired actor, Elvis impersonator, and headshot photographer—usually croons at the Brookhaven Kroger closer to his house; he didn’t know how the Peachtree City suburbanites would react to, as he puts it, “a 74-year-old Asian guy singing Frank Sinatra in the parking lot.” But the audience stuffed his tip jar in less than an hour.

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That night at his motel, a British woman approached Kim and asked if he would sing for her friend, who had heard him earlier during his grocery run. “There was an older guy with a beard sitting in a cheap plastic lawn chair, and I asked what he wanted to hear,” Kim recalls. “He said, ‘I’m easy, whatever you like.’” So for the rest of the night, Kim serenaded the group with Sinatra. Read More