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Blast From the Past: Beatboxing Alive and Well in NYC

Beatboxing is an art form that has gone through some serious phases over its 30+ year history. At times mocked, at times revered, the singular drive to create beats and music using nothing but one's vocal power and a microphone is seemingly alive and well in the world today. This makes sense, of course, due to the huge upsurgence of beat and groove oriented EDM tracks that are all the rage today. This makes the case for the intrinsic link between the popularity of beatboxing and the popularity of 'beat' music, be that hip hop or house....

Who am I kidding? Beatboxing always has been and always will be awesome. Kid Lucky, legendary beat musician and curator of this year's American Human Beatbox Festival, has been at it for almost thirty years now, a testament to its timeless nature. This year's festival features some of the brightest young stars in the beatboxing world as well as a bunch of the older stalwarts(Kid Lucky included).