Shlomo (beatboxing artist)
Simon Shlomo Kahn ( b. 1983 in Kent) is since 2007 at London's Southbank Centre resident, a British human beatboxer, known as Shlomo. He is also the World Champion Loopstation of 2011.
Background
Shlomo grew up in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire and is derived from Israeli, Iraqi and German ancestors. He is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. He says that he grew up in a very musical family, so he was always surrounded by music as a child. His father, Jeremy Kahn, who is now Shlomo Manager itself is a jazz musician and Shlomo played since the age of fourteen in his jazz quartet drums. In addition, he also played for a local orchestra.
Music
Besides his beatbox skills Shlomo is also a classically -taught drummer, and he was before his solo activities of the Foreign Beggars and beatbox group Drool Skool. He is also on the works of famous musicians, such as Björk, Imogen Heap and listen to Martha Wainwright. He beat boxing, among others on Björk's song Oceania, which the two 2004 opening of the Summer Olympics in Athens aufführten.
In addition to solo performances, he works with his own group, The Vocal Orchestra, which he founded in just 6 weeks in 2007. Among the original members were in addition to the a cappella ensemble The Swing Singers and the beatboxer MC Zani and Neil Thomas, and Bellatrix, which became the beatbox world champion of women in Berlin 2009. Before this world- first beatbox choir could even meet, was the first appearance on the Boxcon07, the third International Human Beatbox Convention in London, already sold. The process was detained by film director Colette McWilliams in a documentary, The Beatbox Choir. The Beatbox Choir won the award for Best Documentary at OS International Film Festival and was part of the official selection on the Australian D Reel International Film Festival. Since the original appearance in 2007 Shlomo, the line -up of the group changed to eight members, which appear at festivals.
His very innovative products include the musical Boxed in which he tries with the Vocal Orchestra not only musical, but also in terms of acting, as well as the The Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra, which was a collaboration with composer Anna Meredith and February 2010 was first performed with an orchestra. For the latter, Shlomo and Meredith specially developed a phonetic description of the beatbox sounds.
Shlomo is also very proficient at the loop station, which he often used for his performances and exceptions. In 2010 he won the BOSS loop station UK Championships with Part Time Dropout and thus secured himself a spot in the World Championship, which he finally won in Los Angeles in January 2011. By early April 2011, Shlomo was on his Mouthtronica solo tour of England go.
At Shlomo's other projects include the seven-headed Lip Factory ( since 2011 ), and the Beatbox Academy. The Beatbox Academy, a program that young people should be the possibility to regular Beatbox lessons, Shlomo founded in collaboration with the London Battersea Arts Centre (BAC ). Since 2008, so their beatbox techniques developed regular workshops and classes in which teenagers both solo, as well as to improve as a group.
Private life
2010 Shlomo 's father, as he told on Twitter.