Songwriter aims to hook Starbucks

UNION, N.J., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A man who says he's been bounced from more than 200 Starbucks in the New York area says he's not ground down by the chain's rejection of his java jive.

One-name artist DaVido says he's percolating a plan to take his so-called rejection tour to the Pacific Northwest -- Seattle to be exact.

"I'd love to go to Seattle and get thrown out of a Starbucks there," he told The Seattle Times.

The 38-year-old performer with a signature blue suit from Union, N.J., is best known as the singer who keeps getting tossed from Starbucks stores in New York and New Jersey. He'd rather be known as the man who wrote "Java Jitters," a coffee-inspired song he'd love to get on a Starbuck retail CD.

DaVido wrote the tune about 18 months ago. Starbucks rejected it.

Shooting a video in the coffee shop got him attention, but not the right kind. Some stores asked him to leave, while others called police or fire departments.

At one New York Starbucks, a police officer told him he'd be arrested if he ever wore his blue suit in that store again, DaVido said.