Pop to the beat: how beatboxing is catching on in Chennai

Chennai | Monday | 24th September, 2018

Summary:

But the beatboxing community in Chennai, feels Vivek, has one advantage over cities like Mumbai and Delhi. He used that platform to underline a point that Chennai’s fledgeling beatboxing community is trying to prove everyday: ‘beatboxers are musicians as well’. Back home, he reiterates the same, adding with some consternation, “In most events and concerts in Chennai, beatboxers are still just fillers. He mixes his beatboxing with a range of instruments, from the harmonica to three different kinds of flute. “We always meet in someone’s house or the other to practise,” says the teenager, who has already graduated to judging competitions..