Vineeth Vincent

Vineeth Vincent[1] (born 9 July 1989) is a Beatboxer,[2] Musician, emcee and performing artist from Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He is considered as India's biggest beatboxer[3][4] with over 1250 shows in his credit since 2008. He is also the MC of the biggest youth[5] fest in India - Under 25.

Vineeth Vincent
Vineeth Vincent
Background information
Born (1989-07-09) 9 July 1989
GenresBeatbox, Hip hop
Occupation(s)Beatbox artist
InstrumentsHuman Voice
Years active2008–present
LabelsUnsigned artist

Career

Vineeth Vincent started off as a professional [6] emcee in Bangalore during May 2007. In 2008, he took a year off from his studies[7][8] at Christ University[9] to pay more attention to music and beatboxing.[10][11] He spent a month at Mrinalini Sarabhai's Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad, where he mingled with artists[12] and had the chance to experiment with beatboxing.[13][14] He returned to Bangalore[15] and has been working since 2008 as a professional beatboxer.[16][17][18]

He performed with The Boxettes in 2010 and Austrian beatboxing group Bauchklang in 2009 among many other artists and bands.[5][17][19][20][21] In the search for beatboxing talent[22][23] by the British Council Library (BCL),[24] He was selected as part of the final eight and performed with Voctronica.[25][26] Vineeth Vincent was given the duty of Cultural Secretary[27][28] to lead the cultural activities at Christ University during the academic year 2010–11 and during this period two world records were initiated.

By the end of 2017, Vineeth has over 1250 shows in his credit. Held two titles, one for Guinness Book of World Records, and one for Limca book of world records. Has Spoken four times at TEDx, and two times at Josh Talks, and adding to it, he hosted and performed at MI Talks, Delhi.[29][30]

Vineeth, for the long time, wanted to collaborate beatbox with a different instrument. The combination of two great beat boxers and an instrument that is unknown to people [31] is the brand new plan of Vineeth. Through the ‘Video A Week’ project called #for-the- beat.html SaxBox they put out a cover of a new song at a different location every week, recording[32] both, the audio and video live.[33]

World record

On 10 January 2011, Christ Junior College, Bangalore, under ensemble director Vineeth Vincent, in an event titled 'Can You Say Beat Box?' created the largest human beatbox ensemble in the Limca Book of Records with 2136 participants.[34][35][36][37][38][39]

According to the Guinness World Records, the previous record for the largest human beatbox ensemble involved 1,246 participants and was achieved by Vineeth Vincent and Christ University (India) in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, on 5 February 2011.[40] This record was broken by Shlomo on 14 November 2011 with 2,081 participants.[41]

Festivals and speaker platforms
  • Vineeth Vincent is the official host and beat boxer of India&#39's largest youth festival,[23] Under 25 Summit and he hosted the latest Under 25 Summit [42] which was held, back in Hyderabad.
  • He performed with The Austrian beat boxing group Bauchklang in 2009 and the Boxettes in 2010 among many other artists and bands.
  • Vineeth was speaker and beat boxer at TEDxNITK where he took to the stage alongside Brodha V on 28 October 2012. He also spoke and performed at TEDxBMS in the same year.
  • He was the guest speaker at SRCC (Sri Ram College of Commerce) Youth Festival in Delhi, in 2014.
  • Vineeth has been a TEDx speaker four times. He has spoken and performed at TEDxTirupathi [43] in 2012. TEDxWalledCity in 2015.[44]
  • He has been a speaker and a performer for two 'Josh Talks' events held in Bangalore, in 2015 and Delhi, in 2016.
  • Vineeth completed 1,250 shows as of December, 2016.[45]
  • He was the official emcee, moderator and beat boxer at Kyoorius Design Yatra 2016, held in Jaipur and 2017, held in Goa.
  • Adding further to this list, Vineeth has hosted and performed at MI talks, Delhi held on 18 August 2017.[46]
  • He was the host and beat boxer for the launch of 'Namma Bengaluru' logo at the 'Namma Bengaluru Habba', held on 24 Dec 2017, in front of Vidhana Soudha.
  • He was the host on Lenovo&#39's 36 hour Facebook live session on 2 February 2018 to promote Lenovo&#39's live service.

Judging/ Representing India

Vineeth represented India on the Judge's panel for the first ever ‘India Beat boxing championship [47][48] which was held from 6 to 9 December 2016 in Nagaland. He was one of the five judges who came from across the globe to judge the battle.

References
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