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Darren Foreman (born 14 May 1982 in Stanmore, North London), better known as Beardyman, is a British multivocalist, musician, and comedian from London renowned for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping. [1]

66 relations: BBC One, Beard, Beatboxing, Breakbeat, Brighton, Bristol Old Vic, C++, Camp Bestival, Channel 4, Chipping Barnet, Comedy festival, Comedy hip hop, Country music, Cube Microplex, Didgeridoo, Drum and bass, Dubstep, E4 (TV channel), Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Elvis Presley, Fatboy Slim, Groove Armada, Guitar, Hip hop music, I Done a Album, Independent News & Media, Internet, IPad, Jay Foreman (comedian), Jews, Just for Laughs, Keyboard instrument, Korg Kaoss Pad, Korg Kaossilator, List of Edinburgh festivals, Live looping, London, Lyrebird, MC Xander, Michael Winslow, MicroKORG, Musician, North London, Objective-C, Overtone singing, Police Academy (franchise), Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, Rahzel, Rapping, ..., Reggae, Reggie Watts, Scat singing, Singing, South Bank, Stanmore, Techno, The Independent, Tim Minchin, Trance music, Turntablism, UdderBELLY, University of Sussex, Vocal folds, Voice acting, YouTube. Expand index (16 more) »

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Beard

A beard is the collection of hair that grows on the chin and cheeks of humans and some non-human animals.

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Beatboxing

Beatboxing (also beat boxing or b-boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

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Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a broad style of electronic or dance-oriented music which utilizes breaks, often sampled from earlier recordings in funk, jazz and R&B, for the main rhythm.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.

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C++

C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.

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Camp Bestival

Camp Bestival is a British music festival, the "little sister" of Bestival, both organised by BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Chipping Barnet

Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a market town in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north north-west of Charing Cross, east from Borehamwood, west from Enfield and south from Potters Bar. Its name is very often abbreviated to just Barnet, which is also the name of the borough of which it forms a part. Chipping Barnet is also the name of the Parliamentary constituency covering the local area - the word "Chipping" denotes the presence of a market, one that was established here at the end of the 12th century and persists to this day. Chipping Barnet is one of the highest-lying urban settlements in London, with the town centre having an elevation of about.

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Comedy festival

A comedy festival is a celebration of comedy with many shows, venues, comedy performers (such as stand up comics, sketch troupes, variety performers, etc.) and is held over a specific block of time.

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Comedy hip hop

Comedy hip hop or comedy rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that is comedic in nature, often incorporating satirical lyrics.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cube Microplex

The Cube Microplex is a social art experiment existing in the form of a cinema and event venue in Bristol, England.

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Didgeridoo

The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.

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Drum and bass

Drum and bass (also written as "drum 'n' bass" or "drum & bass"; commonly abbreviated as "D&B", "DnB" or "D'n'B"), is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from rave and jungle scenes in Britain during the early 1990s.

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Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the late 1990s.

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E4 (TV channel)

E4 is a British-Irish terrestrial digital television channel, funded by advertising.

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Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat

"Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat" is a song by Fatboy Slim and Riva Starr.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (often referred to as simply The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, which in 2017 spanned 25 days and featured 53,232 performances of 3,398 shows in 300 venues.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Fatboy Slim

Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook; 31 July 1963), better known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Groove Armada

Groove Armada are an English electronic music duo, composed of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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I Done a Album

I Done A Album is the first album by British beat-box artist Beardyman.

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Independent News & Media

Independent News & Media plc (INM) is a media organisation based in Dublin, Ireland, and operating across several countries.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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IPad

iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system.

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Jay Foreman (comedian)

Jay Foreman (born 4 October 1984) is an English comedy singer-songwriter.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Just for Laughs

Just for Laughs (Juste pour rire) is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Korg Kaoss Pad

The Kaoss Pad is an audio effects unit made by Korg, launched in 1999.

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Korg Kaossilator

The Korg Kaossilator KO-1 is a portable music synthesizer manufactured by Korg.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Live looping

Live looping is the recording and playback of a piece of music in real-time using either dedicated hardware devices, called loopers or phrase samplers, or software running on a computer with an audio interface.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lyrebird

A lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds that compose the genus Menura, and the family Menuridae.

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MC Xander

MC Xander is a British musician and music producer, known for creating his music using only his voice and a loopstation, which layers up his vocal sounds.

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Michael Winslow

Michael Leslie Winslow (born September 6, 1958) is an American actor, beatboxer, and comedian billed as the "Man of 10,000 Sound Effects" for his ability to make realistic sounds using only his voice.

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MicroKORG

The microKORG is a MIDI-capable virtual analog synthesizer/vocoder from Korg featuring DSP analog modelling.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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North London

North London is the northern part of London, England.

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Objective-C

Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.

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Overtone singing

Overtone singing – also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing or throat singing – is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out of the lips to produce a melody.

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Police Academy (franchise)

Police Academy is a series of American comedy films, the first six of which were made in the 1980s.

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Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet

Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet is a boys' grammar school in Barnet, North London, which was founded in 1573 by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and others, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I. It is constantly ranked as one of the most academically successful secondary schools in England, having topped A Level league tables for grammar schools for five consecutive years, as of 2016, and was chosen by the Sunday Times as "State School of the Year" in 2007.

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Rahzel

Rahzel Manely Brown is an American beatboxer and rapper, formerly a member of The Roots.

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Rapping

Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Reggie Watts

Reginald Lucien Frank Roger "Reggie" Watts (born March 23, 1972) is an American musician, singer, beatboxer, actor, and comedian.

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Scat singing

In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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South Bank

South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster.

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Stanmore

Stanmore is a suburban residential district of northwest London in the London Borough of Harrow.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Tim Minchin

Timothy David Minchin (born 7 October 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician and director.

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Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic<!-- The source says electronic music, not electronic dance music ---> music that emerged from the rave scene in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and developed further during the early 1990s in Germany before spreading throughout the rest of Europe, as a more melodic offshoot from techno and house.

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Turntablism

Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more turntables and a cross fader-equipped DJ mixer.

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UdderBELLY

The Udderbelly is an upside-down giant purple cow tent owned by the event venue and management company Underbelly, originally sponsored by E4 as the "E4 udderBELLY".

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University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is a public research university in Falmer, Sussex, England.

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Vocal folds

The vocal folds, also known commonly as vocal cords or voice reeds, are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane stretched horizontally, from back to front, across the larynx.

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Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beardyman

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