Andrew Singer, also known as Soce, the elemental wizard, is an American

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

and producer and one of the rap scene’s openly

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MCs.

Personal life

In addition to rapping onstage, Soce plays the

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

and bass. During his performances, he typically dons a wizard’s cap. Soce is a graduate of

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and

Phillips Exeter Academy (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ...

. He is

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. Soce is the proud father to two sets of twins

Music

Videos and Flash Featurettes

Soce has four flash featurettes: Sad and Lonely, RPG Interlude, Internet Treasure Quest and The Shortest Adventure Game You'll Ever Play. Sad and Lonely was screened at film festivals in

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San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

and

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, and Soce floats has been screened in at a festival in LA. Music videos for his singles "I Am (So Gay)" and "They Call Me" (both directed by Liam Ahern) have recently begun circulating the web.

Appearances

Soce had a US tour, where he did shows in

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Iowa City Iowa City, offically the City of Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the home of the University of Iowa and county seat of Johnson County, at the center of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the time ...

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, Mountain View,

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and

. He appeared on

MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

, VH1,

here! Here TV is an American premium television network targeting LGBT audiences. Launched in 2002, Here TV is available nationwide on all major cable systems, fiber optics systems, and Internet TV providers as either a 24/7 premium subscription channe ...

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, and

Sirius Satellite Radio Sirius Satellite Radio was a satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Holdings. Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, Sirius ...

, (

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, Raw Dog Comedy and

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). He performers and reviews shows for NYC comedy blog The Apiary and also City Scoops, writes a blog for outhiphop.com, reviews videogames for WayTooHip Radio, co-hosted a monthly Math Bee at

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with comedian

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and co-hosts a monthly stand-up comedy show at The PIT (formerly a weekly show in East Village at Cellar 58) with Abbi Crutchfield called Positively Awesome. He produces music for many other performers, including the track "Lick It" by

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, which they performed live on the season finale of ''

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'' and produced "The Whole World" by

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—which appears on Grimm's 2006 album ''

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'', in addition to "U & U", "Karma" and "Sick" by

QBoy QBoy (born Marcos Jose Brito on 10 October 1978) is a UK-based rapper, producer, DJ, writer and presenter. One of the original few out rappers in hip hop circa 2001 that became pioneers of the new subgenre colloquially known as "homo hop". QBoy ...

, which features soce contributing a guest verse. He produced the music for the music video "Hold Tight" by Rob Cantrell and the intro to "EZ Heeb" plus the entirety of "Booty Shake" by Athens Boys Choir. Bigg Nugg released a CD single and a music video of his collaboration with Soce, entitled "I Remember". In 2007, Soce co-hosted NYC's gay pride parade, along with fellow gay artist Sandra Grace. Soce and Sandra co-hosted the gay pride parade again in 2008, and he did it again in 2009, this time with Sybil Bruncheon. In 2008, Soce competed in the Sirius Shade 45 gay hip hop competition and won by audience vote. In 2009, Soce was nominated for two OutMusic Awards; one for hip hop and one for production. In 2010 and 2011, Soce has been co-hosting a traveling music documentary video produced by

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. The other co-hosts are Prince Paul and Mr. Dead. Soce has created a video series called Math Problems in which he asks a special guest a few math questions that they then answer correctly. Each episode contains the following four aspects: 1) Discussion of math. 2) Silly dancing at the beginning. 3) One awkward touch. 4) The intro dancing always takes place in a doorway. Featured guests so far have included

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, Prince Paul,

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Jessica Delfino Jessica Delfino (born June 8, 1976, in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a controversial singer, songwriter, and comedian based in New York City. Her songs tend to ridicule taboos and typically include jokes about vaginas and other sexual or dark top ...

and

Corn Mo Corn Mo is the stage name of Jon Cunningham, an American, Brooklyn-based musician. Corn Mo sings, plays the accordion, keyboards, and sometimes performs as a one man band. His music style is a mixture of circus music, glam rock, and humorou ...

. From 2017 onward, Soce has done most of his live appearances as DJ Soce, DJ'ing a variety of corporate and private events in the CT/NY/NJ/PA region.

Discography

* ''Dream de la Dream'' 2003 * ''I'm in My Own World'' 2004 * '' The Lemonade Incident'' 2005 * ''

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'' 2009

''Life Lessons''

Soce's upcoming album, ''Life Lessons'', is planned for a 2011 release and features various songs he has released as singles and performed at live shows, including "The Mic" (a song about his love of his microwave oven), "Rob" (a gospel song) and "Too Many Fish" (a collaborative track features 3-bar guest verses by Prince Cat-Eyez, Lester Greene, Humility's Hand,

Tim'm West Timothy Terrell West (born July 6, 1972), better known as Tim'm T. West, is an American educator and multi-discipline performance artist, author, hip hop recording artist, poet, activist, and youth advocate.Wilson, D. Mark. "Post-pomo hip-hop homo ...

, Amnesia Sparkles, FoxxJazell, Mistamaker, Tori Fixx, Wayne Latham, JFP, Delacruz and Chewy).

Production Discography

2003

*"Passport to the Future" - End of the Weak *"What You Thought It Was" - Access Immortal *"Mi Corazon R&B Remix" - Julio Granados *"Bronx" - PM US & Migs *"You Don't Know" - PM US & Migs *"Love Me" - PM US & Migs *"Violence" - Keith Zarriello *"Fight" - Chaz Neo

2004

*"On and On" - Timothy Dark *"LSDF Remix" - Houston Bernard

2005

*"Lick It" -

*"Dream Songs" - Brer Brian *"By Your Side" - Brer Brian

2006

*"The Whole World" -

*"Sick" -

2007

*"The Bunny" - Scotty the Blue Bunny *"Wedding Flowers" - Po2.com (produced all of the music for this online flash game)

2008

*"Hold Tight" - Rob Cantrell *"Special Needs" - Prince Cat-Eyez *"Black and Blue" - The Vagilantes

2009

*"How to Rob Comics" - Miss CKC & TMC (recorded, mixed) *"Summer Jam" - Miss CKC, TMC, Beena Steena (recorded, mixed, added drums) *"DAMN (You Wish)" - Miss CKC, TMC, Beena Steena (recorded, mixed, added drums, record scratching) *"Date an Asian" - Jen Kwok *"U & U" -

*"Karma" -

*"Booty Shake" - Athens Boys Choir *"EZ Heeb" - Athens Boys Choir (intro only) *"Beer Belly" - Lester Greene *"Hit the Bar" - Lester Greene featuring Amnesia Sparkles *"Life is What You Make It" - Lester Greene *"Most People Are Idiots" -

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*"Reclaim" -

2010

*"Take You Home" - Jen Kwok featuring Miss CKC *"Less Money, Mo Problems" - TMC featuring Miss CKC *"Graduation Day" - Coolzey *"Player 2" - Whitney Meers

2011

*"That Thang" - Jen Kwok featuring DanAKADan *"Scarlett Johansson" - Amy Albert *"Cheap" - St. Laz *"Hooda Math Theme Song" - Hooda Math

2012

*"Wu-Tang Killa Beatles" -

Zach Sherwin Zach Sherwin (born July 1, 1980) is an American comedian, rapper, writer, and actor best known for writing for and performing in the ''Epic Rap Battles of History'' YouTube series, as well as writing for ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' on The CW. He sp ...

*"Toothpick" -

*"No Shade" - Shorty Roc featuring Bone Intell *"Theme Song" - The Miscellaneous Math Show

2013

*"Spicify My Love" - Jackie Silvestri *"Buddha Worm" -

*"Afraid of Everything" - Schäffer the Darklord featuring BB Heart *"Babies n Sh**" - Rob Cantrell featuring Miss CKC *"Stage Name" -

*"Grabbing Lunch Podcast Theme Song" -

Matt Knudsen Matt Knudsen (born March 10, 1974) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the villain Sonny Appleday in the Cartoon Network TV film '' Re-Animated'' and its spinoff series ''Out Of Jimmy's Head''. Early life Knud ...

*"Mice" - Schäffer the Darklord *"Giant Iron Snake" - Schäffer the Darklord *"End of the World Reunion" - Schäffer the Darklord featuring Katastrophe and Strict Chem *"Intervention" - Schäffer the Darklord featuring Dr. Awkward, Adam WarRock,

Jesse Dangerously Jesse Alexander McDonald, better known by their stage name Jesse Dangerously or The Halifax Rap Legend, is an alternative hip hop artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia and operating out of Ottawa, Ontario. Dangerously has released solo projects, pro ...

MC Frontalot Damian Hess (born December 3, 1973), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an American rapper and web designer. Hess began releasing music as MC Frontalot in 1999. His first successes came through Song Fight!, an online songwriting and ...

, YTCracker, Coolzey and Nelson Lugo *"The Amender" - Schäffer the Darklord

2014

*"Letter C" -

*"Row J Theme Song" -

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*"American - Intro Music" -

2015

*"Coolsay" - EP by Coolzey featuring Schäffer the Darklord, Nelson Lugo, Tyler Davis Parkford and Belly Belt *"Pop Music" -

2016

*"Circumcising Wolverine" -

*"Ghost Boo" - Moondrunk featuring Jelly Donut of

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*"Flab Slab" -

2017

*"Coolsay Too" - EP by Coolzey featuring Cat Greenfield, Schäffer the Darklord,

DJ Douggpound Doug Lussenhop (born March 8, 1973), known professionally as DJ Douggpound, is an American musician, video editor, and comedian. Doug is best known as the editor for '' Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'', that features his trademark editing s ...

2022

*”Hooda Math Theme Song 2022” - Hooda Math

References

External links

Official website

Podcast interview with soce
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"I am(so gay)" music video

Prince Paul music doc that Soce co-hosts
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