A duet with Jon Bon Jovi

"Mighty" Sam McClain has duetted with Jon Bon Jovi. He's shared the stage at the Apollo Theater with Gladys Knight and Jackie Wilson. But McClain's life hasn't always been so glamorous: he was homeless off and on for years, he told The Boston Globe:

At one point, living on Nashville's streets and driven to despair, he considered killing himself.

'Nobody cared about me, and I didn't see one face that I could call, not one person who wanted to hear me say, 'I'm hungry, I need some help,'' McClain recalls. 'That was one of the loneliest times I've ever felt. I was ready to walk into the river and say, 'I don't want to live like this,' and God spoke up and said, 'No, you got me' . . . It didn't make no sense to me, but God said, 'I died for you, so what you're going through ain't nothing. So get up and let's go.''

McClain's duet with Jon Bon Jovi, "Show Me the Way," appears on a new album called "Give US Your Poor." Benefits from the sale of the album go to UMass-Boston's Give US Your Poor Campaign to End Homelessness organization.