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Kid Lucky (series)
Terry Lewis (September 15, 1972 – October 23, 2020), also known by his stage name Kid Lucky, was an American beatrhymer, beatboxer, singer-songwriter, teacher, and activist born in New York City. He coined the term "beatrhyming", which he defines as "rapping, singing or performing spoken word while beatboxing simultaneously". Early life Lewis grew up in New York City, and as a child, began scat singing and making sounds with his mouth. His desire to become a performer came from watching the music video of Janet Jackson's hit song "Rhythm Nation". He began writing plays and spoken word poetry, and was motivated to pursue beatboxing after seeing Doug E. Fresh in the movie ''Beat Street''. Career Lewis's career began founding and performing with the first production company in America for beatboxing, "Beatboxer Entertainment". Beatboxer entertainment has been featured on shows such as MTV and Fuse, and has performed in Madison square garden. Lewis is a beatbox mentor who has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaila Mullady
Kaila Mullady (born April 11, 1993) is an American beatboxer, Beatrhyming, beatrhymer, musician and actress. She won on Beatbox Battle World Championship 2015 & 2018 by category solo female. She is a former member of the Beatbox House crew. Kaila is a current member of the improv rap group ''Freestyle Love Supreme'' under the name Kaizer Roze. Early life Mullady's interest in music and beatboxing began at a young age. She took up guitar at age ten and began beatboxing for parties when she got older. She originally planned on pursuing a career as a teacher, but over time became disinterested in teaching. In 2012 she met award-winning beatboxer J-Flo, and was introduced to the modern beatbox community. After an accident resulting in a broken back, which prevented her from performing, during her recovery, she met beatbox pioneer Kid Lucky. He introduced her to the art of beatrhyming which ultimately changed and defined the course of her artistry. He befriended Mullady and became he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Births
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time he legal time scale its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 - The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. * January 11 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares a new constitutional governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cee Lo Green
Cee or CEE may refer to: * C, third letter of the Latin alphabet * Cee, Spain, A Coruña, Galicia * Center for Excellence in Education, US * Central and Eastern Europe * Centre for Environment Education * Centre for the Economics of Education, London, England * ', now IECEE, an electrical standards body ** CEE 7 standard AC plugs and sockets ** CEE 17, now IEC 60309, connector standard * ', French abbreviation for European Economic Community * Conjugated equine estrogens, a medication * Consortium for Energy Efficiency The Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that promotes the adoption of energy efficient products and services. CEE specifications are referenced by the United States Department of Energy and by the efficien ..., North America * Converged Enhanced Ethernet {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterscotch (performer)
Antoinette Clinton (born September 29, 1985), known by her stage name Butterscotch, is an American beatboxer, singer, and musician. Early career Butterscotch learned to play the piano at an early age as her mother was a piano teacher. Her siblings all played the piano plus one other instrument trumpet, cello, trombone, clarinet; Clinton had access to all these instruments. As Butterscotch grew older, she was exposed to beat boxing by her high school friends, and was inspired to learn the skill, adopting the stage name "Butterscotch" which originated from a song Antoinette wrote in high school. She attended Natomas Charter School's Performing and Fine Arts Academy in Sacramento, California, where she focused on music. ''America's Got Talent'' Butterscotch gained national exposure in 2007 when she appeared on the second season of ''America's Got Talent ''America's Got Talent'' (often abbreviated as ''AGT'') is a televised American talent show competition, and is part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor McFerrin
Taylor McFerrin (born June 28, 1981 at San Francisco, California) is an American DJ, music producer, keyboardist & beatboxer based in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. He is the eldest son of popular vocalist and classical conductor Bobby McFerrin. McFerrin released his debut album ''Early Riser'' (2014) on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder Records. The album features guest appearances from Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote), Thundercat, Robert Glasper, Cesar Mariano, Marcus Gilmore and Bobby McFerrin. Taylor's latest musical venture sees him as part of Robert Glasper's new jazz fusion supergroup, "R+R=Now", alongside Christian Scott, Terrace Martin, Derrick Hodge and Justin Tyson. The group released an album, ''Collagically Speaking'' via Blue Note In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch from standard. Typically the alteration is between a quartertone and a semitone, but this varies depending on the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Street
''Beat Street'' is a 1984 American drama dance film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture, including breakdancing, DJing, and graffiti. Plot Budding disc jockey and MC Kenny Kirkland is hired as a featured DJ at a house party at an abandoned building, accompanied by his best friend Ramon, a graffiti artist known by his tag "Ramo", and his friend/manager Chollie. Kenny's younger brother Lee crashes the party with his dance crew the Beat Street Breakers, who begin sparring with rival crew the Bronx Rockers. The next day, Chollie arrives and informs Kenny of complimentary tickets to the Roxy, one of Manhattan's most popular nightclubs. Meanwhile, Ramon's father Domingo implores his son to get a job and marry Carmen, the young mother of his illegitimate baby. While visiting The Roxy a few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrhyming
Beatrhyming is a vocal performance art which involves rapping, singing, or spoken word while simultaneously beatboxing. Beatrhyming is an artform that was popularized by Kid Lucky. Technique The primary technique of beatrhyming is singing or speaking rhyming lyrics while concurrently imitating drum beats with the voice and lips. It can also involve techniques such as vocal scratching the spoken or sung lyrics, making vocal sound effects relevant to the lyrics, and instrument mimicry. It can be improvised, pre-written, or covering a popular song. Early history Kid Lucky began developing the concept for beatrhyming in the early 2000s. He credits Biz Markie's hit song "A one two" as the earliest known example of what he defines as beatrhyming. The techniques of beatrhyming were already being practiced by artists such as Rahzel, D-Cross, and Masai Electro. Modern popularity Beatrhyming has risen to fame in the new school beatbox scene through artists such as Kaila Mullady, Mark Marti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug E
Doug is a male personal name (or, depending on which definition of "personal name" one uses, part of a personal name). It is sometimes a given name (or "first name"), but more often it is hypocorism (affectionate variation of a personal name) which takes the place of a given name, usually Douglas (given name), Douglas. Notable people with the name include: Douglas Grosch, ex. People A–C * Doug Allison (1846–1916), American baseball player * Doug Anderson (other), multiple people * Doug Applegate (other), multiple people * Doug Armstrong (born 1964), Canadian National Hockey League team general manager * Doug Armstrong (broadcaster) (1931–2015), New Zealand cricketer, television sports broadcaster and politician * Doug Baldwin (born 1988), American football player * Doug Baldwin (ice hockey) (1922–2007), Canadian ice hockey player * Doug Bennett (other), multiple people * Doug Bereuter (born 1939), American former politician * Doug Bing (born 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatboxing
Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.TOWARD A BEATBOXOLOGY Human Beatbox It may also involve vocal imitation of , and other musical instruments. Beatboxing today is connected with hip-hop culture, often referred to as "the fifth element" of hip-hop, although it is not limited to [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
