Can you rock a crowd armed just with your voice and a mic? Do you have the vocal skills to compete against greatest beatboxers across the land and win a Vauxhall Corsa SXi? If so, check out The Vauxhall UK Beatbox Championships 2007, visit www.vauxhallbeatbox.co.uk for more information.
The art of human beatboxing is one of the fastest growing trends in youth culture since the birth of Hip Hop. Since its origins on the streets of New York in the 1980s, beatboxing has morphed into an incredible performance art, with beatbox artists recreating entire tracks, and producing sounds unimaginable to the untrained ear.
On March 18th 2007, human beatbox artists from all over the world will be gathering at London’s South Bank Centre to showcase their crazy voice boxes. The all-day event is free to attend, with a combination of workshops, showcases, seminars and open-mic sessions.
On March 18th 2007, hundreds of music fans will witness a special performance of live music by Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra, performed using only the mouths, lips, tongues and vocal cords of 15 singers and beatboxers.
It is a well known fact that aspiring U.K artists face a constant struggle against the barriers that have been thrown in front of them. Be it lack of funds, rejection by the mainstream media or just the absence of a decent venue, many talented young performers have fallen by the wayside.
Beatboxing, is the art of making multiple musical noise at one time with only the use of ones mouth, literally being a human 'beatbox'. It has recently gained mainstream popularity beyond its hip hop roots and blossomed into an art form all of its own.