The Cross Whisp

I don’t know what Christopher Cross looks like. I’ve never seen a photograph of him. People who have seen him perform live probably know—or think they know—better than I do, but I suspect Christopher Cross, much like Voldemort before he regained human form in the third or fourth or fifth Harry Potter book, has no body. He’s nothing more than a whisp capable of crooning listenable soft pop numbers, unable to assume corporeal form. Any alleged concert footage of him is probably just an anonymous actor hired to lip sync while the Cross Whisp does the actual singing. I’m not accusing him of being a fraud because I think he’s actually present at his performances. And people who pay for a ticket at least want to see a human appear to sing songs, so I don’t even begrudge him for hiring the actor. In a way, I’m sorry to expose him but sometimes the truth has to come out. In his defense, when you’re a disembodied whisp with a pleasant singing voice, hiring someone to impersonate you is probably the best that you can do.