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SungBeats
''Sung Lee'', professionally known as ''SungBeats'', is a beatboxer, live looper, and content creator based in New York City. He is best known for winning Amateur Night at the Apollo (Season 80), and the ''American Beatbox Championships'', Loopstation (2018). Sung’s original viral YouTube series “Making Beats for Strangers” has garnered international attention around the world. Background SungBeats was born in South Korea but immigrated to the United States when he was 9 years old. He first discovered the art of beatboxing by watching a video of Tampa's ''beatbox EFFEX'' when he was 13. Despite being discouraged by his peers, he continued to pursue beatboxing and won the annual talent show at Leonia High School as a freshman. Sung studied Psychology at Rutgers University and performed at various open mics and social events on campus. Prior to embarking on his music career, he worked as an office manager in Las Vegas. Professional career SungBeats quit his job to perf ...
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Beatboxing
Beatboxing (also, and sometimes, called beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (usually a Roland TR-808, TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.TOWARD A BEATBOXOLOGY
Human Beatbox
It may also involve vocal imitation of turntablism, 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 hip-hop, hip-hop music. The term "beatboxing" is sometimes used to refer to vocal percussion in general.


Origins

Techniques similar to beatboxing have been employed in diverse Music of the United States, American musical genres since the 19th century, such as American folk music, early rural music, both black and white, re ...
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Live Looping
Live looping is the recording and playback of a piece of music in real-time using either dedicated hardware devices, called loopers or phrase samplers, or software running on a computer with an audio interface. Musicians can loop with either looping software or loop pedals, which are sold for tabletop and floor-based use. History of the looping device By the late 19th century, jazz and blues had heavily influenced popular music, encouraging musicians to experiment with rhythm, repetition, and musical improvisation. With the advent of sound recording on gramophone record, invented in 1887 and first marketed in 1889, came the tape recorder and the development of pure electronic music. On 1 October 1947, Bing Crosby became the first American musician to release music via tape broadcast. In 1953, Les Paul demonstrated live looping on the television show Omnibus. In 1963, musician and performer Terry Riley released an early tape loop piece called “The Gift”, featuring the tru ...
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Beatboxing
Beatboxing (also, and sometimes, called beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (usually a Roland TR-808, TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.TOWARD A BEATBOXOLOGY
Human Beatbox
It may also involve vocal imitation of turntablism, 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 hip-hop, hip-hop music. The term "beatboxing" is sometimes used to refer to vocal percussion in general.


Origins

Techniques similar to beatboxing have been employed in diverse Music of the United States, American musical genres since the 19th century, such as American folk music, early rural music, both black and white, re ...
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Showtime At The Apollo
''Showtime at the Apollo'' (formerly ''It's Showtime at the Apollo'' and ''Apollo Live'') is an American variety show that first aired in syndication from September 12, 1987, to May 24, 2008. In 2018, the series returned on Fox with Steve Harvey hosting. Filmed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the show features live performances from both professional and up-and-coming artists, and also features the Amateur Night competition. In many cities such as New York (where it aired on WNBC), it often aired after ''Saturday Night Live'' during the late Saturday night/early Sunday morning hours, and was often paired with the similarly syndicated '' Soul Train''. A live non-televised version of the show takes place every Wednesday (which is the original Apollo Amateur Night competition that has been running for over seventy years), with the taped version of the show for television being recorded in advance on other nights for later airing. Hosts Various musicians and entertainers acted as ...
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American Beatbox Championships,
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Leonia High School
Leonia High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grade from the Borough of Leonia in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Leonia Public Schools. Students from Edgewater attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Edgewater Public Schools. As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 814 students and 70.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. There were 126 students (15.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 47 (5.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Leonia High School


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Rutgers University
Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College and was affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after Princeton University), and one of nine colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.Stoeckel, Althea"Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution", ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56. In 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers College in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a Private university, private liberal arts college. It has evolved into a Mixed-sex ...
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Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater (formerly the Hurtig & Seamon's New Theatre; also Apollo Theatre or 125th Street Apollo Theatre) is a multi-use Theater (structure), theater at 253 125th Street (Manhattan), West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is a popular venue for African Americans, Black American performers and is the home of the TV show ''Showtime at the Apollo''. The theater, which has approximately 1,500 seats across three levels, was designed by George Keister with elements of the Classical Revival architecture, neoclassical style. The facade and interior of the theater are New York City designated landmarks and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Nonprofit organization, nonprofit Apollo Theater Foundation (ATF) operates the theater and a recording studio at the Apollo Theater, as well as two smaller auditoriums at the Victoria Theater (Harlem), Victoria Theater. The Apollo was developed by Jules Hurtig and Harry ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city.
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Grand Beatbox Battle
The Grand Beatbox Battle (commonly abbreviated GBB) is an annual international beatboxing competition hosted by Swissbeatbox. The competition holds multiple tournaments for different forms and categories of beatboxing which include: Solo (or Showcase), Live looping, Loopstation, Tag Team, Crew, Tag Team Loopstation, Producer and Under 18. The event follows a traditional tournament format, where competitors take turns performing on a stage, and a panel of judges vote on the winner. To qualify for the tournament portion, beatboxers from around the world must submit "wildcards" online for an invitation or by winning another national and international competition, as well as pass an "elimination" round during the competition. History The first Grand Beatbox Battle was held in 2009 in Switzerland. It was part of the BScene Basel music festival where only Swiss-competitors are allowed to participate until 2011, where it was open internationally. Results Solo Loop Station ...
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Defy Ventures
Defy Ventures is a United States-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that tries to solve the social problems caused by incarceration. The organization provides training programs to individuals with criminal histories, as a way of reducing recidivism. The organization was founded in 2010. History Defy Ventures was founded in October 2010 in New York City by Catherine Hoke (née Rohr's). In January 2012, it launched its first group of program participants, called entrepreneurs-in-training (EITs). Enrollment to women was opened later the same year. In July 2015, Defy launched its "CEO of Your New Life" program, which teaches job readiness and a variety of personal development skills to incarcerated men and women. The program also provides follow-up, with post-release job placement, entrepreneurship startup funding, and mentoring. As of 2015, over 100 companies have been started by Defy's EITs and over 3,000 businesspeople have become involved as volunteers, judges and mentors ...
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California State Prison, Solano
California State Prison, Solano (SOL) is a male-only List of California state prisons, state prison located in the city of Vacaville, California, Vacaville in Solano County, California, adjacent to California Medical Facility. The facility is also referenced as Solano State Prison, CSP-Solano, and CSP-SOL.California Department of Corrections and RehabilitationCalifornia's Correctional Facilities.6 March 2011. Facilities SOL's include the following facilities, among others: * Level II housing: Open dormitories with secure perimeter fences and armed coverage * Level III housing: Individual cells, fenced perimeters and armed coverage Population and staff As of fiscal year 2006/2007, SOL had a total of 1,308 staff and an annual operating budget of $158.4 million. As of February 2011, it had a design capacity of 2,610 but a total institution population of 5,050, for an occupancy rate of 193.5 percent.California Department of Corrections and RehabilitationMonthly Report of Populat ...
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