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Vocal percussion

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Vocal percussion is the art of creating sounds with one's mouth that approximate, imitate, or otherwise serve the same purpose as a percussion instrument, whether in a group of singers, an instrumental ensemble, or solo. [1]

32 relations: Al Jarreau, Arun Luthra, Beatboxing, Bobby McFerrin, Bol (music), Bouladjel, Chris Sullivan (The Electric Company), Dafnis Prieto, Doug E. Fresh, Hip hop music, Human mouth, Jason Tom, Jeff Thacher, Kaichiro Kitamura, Kathak, Kevin Olusola, Kid Beyond, Konnakol, Loire (musician), Marcos Valle, North India, Percussion instrument, Rachelle Ferrell, Rapping, Sheila Chandra, South India, T. H. Subash Chandran, T. S. Nandakumar, Trilok Gurtu, V. Selvaganesh, Wes Carroll, World music.

Al Jarreau

Alwin Lopez "Al" Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician.

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Arun Luthra

Arun Luthra is a jazz musician (saxophonist, konnakol artist, composer and arranger) based in New York City.

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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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Bobby McFerrin

Robert Keith "Bobby" McFerrin Jr. (born March 14, 1950) is an American jazz vocalist and conductor.

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Bol (music)

A bol is a mnemonic syllable.

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Bouladjel

Bouladjèl (also sometimes Boulagèl or Bannjogita) is a vocal percussion technique practiced on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

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Chris Sullivan (The Electric Company)

Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan is an American actor, vocal percussionist, and a regular cast member of the American public television show for children The Electric Company as Shock.

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Dafnis Prieto

Dafnis Prieto (born July 31, 1974) is a Cuban-American drummer, bandleader, and educator.

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Doug E. Fresh

Doug E. Fresh (born September 17, 1966) is a Barbadian-American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer, also known as the Human Beat Box And the pioneer of 20th-century American beatboxing, Fresh is able to accurately imitate drum machines and various special effects using only his mouth, lips, gums, throat, tongue and a microphone.

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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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Human mouth

In human anatomy, the mouth is the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food and produces saliva.

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Jason Tom

Jason Tom (born November 21, 1982) is an American musician, performance poet, and motivational speaker known for beatboxing in music, dance, and poetry slams.

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Jeff Thacher

Jeffrey Thomas Thacher (born December 23, 1967) is an American musician, best known as a member of the vocal group Rockapella.

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Kaichiro Kitamura

Kaichiro Kitamura is a Japanese Vocal percussionist, Singer, and Music teacher who has performed vocal percussion, in both a cappella and instrumental groups.

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Kathak

Kathak also known in Hindi as कथक is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance.

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Kevin Olusola

Kevin Olusola (born October 5, 1988) is an American musician, beatboxer, cellist, rapper, record producer, singer, and songwriter.

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Kid Beyond

Kid Beyond (real name Andrew Chaikin) (December 7, 1969) is a voice actor, singer, beatboxer, throat singer, songwriter, and live looper based in the San Francisco area.

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Konnakol

Konnakol (also spelled Konokol, Konakkol) (கொன்னக்கோல்) is the art of performing percussion syllables vocally in South Indian music, the Carnatic music (South Indian classical) performance art of vocal percussion.

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Loire (musician)

Loire Cotler (born Lori Beth Cotler) is a Jewish American Jazz Rhythm Vocalist, world music stylist, composer, recording artist, educator and certified Music Therapist known for her outstanding Konnakol, Scat singing and original world jazz standard interpretations.

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Marcos Valle

Marcos Kostenbader Valle (born 14 September 1943 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer, instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer.

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North India

North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Rachelle Ferrell

Rachelle Stephanie Ferrell (born May 21, 1964) is an American vocalist and musician.

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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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Sheila Chandra

Sheila Chandra (born 14 March 1965) is a retired British pop singer of Indian descent.

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South India

South India is the area encompassing the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, occupying 19% of India's area.

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T. H. Subash Chandran

Thetakudi Harihara Subash Chandran is regarded by many as the foremost Carnatic (South Indian classical) percussion teacher.

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T. S. Nandakumar

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Trilok Gurtu

Trilok Gurtu (ترلوک گرٹو, त्रिलोक गुर्टू) (born in Mumbai, India on 30 October 1951) is an Indian percussionist and composer, whose work has blended the music of his homeland with jazz fusion, world music and other genres.

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V. Selvaganesh

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Wes Carroll

Wes Carroll was born September 27, 1970 in Schererville, Indiana, and is known as a pioneer and teacher of mouth drumming a form of vocal percussion from the musical genre of contemporary a cappella, now widely known as beatboxing.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

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

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