From Street Performer to Stage Star: Andy Grammer Premieres Live Take on "Lunatic" [VIDEO]

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This video depicts one of those shows, a gig at the Troubadour in Hollywood where Grammer performed the song "Lunatic". The track is on his debut album, which hits in June.

"'Lunatic' was a song that I wrote out on the Third Street Promenade," Grammer says. "I was sitting in a beach chair on a Friday, like a work day, questioning myself, 'Am I insane? Sitting outside in a beach chair, hoping with no reason? Or is it a valid thing that I'm doing?' So I got my guitar and started to write." The song is an ode to everyone who has ever questioned whether their dreams were, well, lunacy or not.

Grammer worked as a street performer, as well as on the college circuit, for three years before "making it," so to speak. He has a record contract on S-Curve, and he won an MTV OMA "Most Innovative Music Video Award" for "Keep Your Head Up," a choose-you-own-adventure mini flick.

While Grammer enjoys performing in front of real fans instead of of Santa Monica seagulls, he still fondly recalls his busking career. "You're having an impromptu concert on a Friday night and the sun is setting -- there's nothing better than that," he says.