Beat boxing artiste makes mark on unconventional music scene

A 25-year-old man from Bengaluru is making waves on the unconventional music scene across the country with his unusual musical talent - beat boxing.
Beat boxing is a form of vocal percussion, using one's mouth, lips, tongue and voice to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop.
Vineeth Vincent, the man with the unusual talent, says he has been honing his craft since 2007.
"Since 2007 I was making weird sounds while talking on stage, then someone came and told me that actually I was beat boxing. I did not know what it is. I went online and understood the art," he told PTI.

Vincent found a slot in the Guinness Book of World Records after he led 1,246 participants of Christ University, Bengaluru, to beat-box on a single platform in 2011, thus breaking an old record set in Vienna involving 327 beat-boxers.
Opting to pursue this unconventional art as his career was not easy as his mother was initially against it.

"Initially my mother had little bit of an issue. Once she saw I was financially sustainable she became supportive of it. She realised that I was making good money to sustain myself," Vincent said.
To begin with, Vincent had quite a few role models, but they gave him pain as they let him down for some reasons.

Vincent said he did not believe in learning from other beat boxers around the world as watching them could end up copying their styles, which he did not want.
"I saw other beat boxers on Youtube, but watching them is a problem because you end up sounding like them. So I began to write my own material," he said.
Apart from being a Guinness World Record holder, he has the distinction of ingraining his name also in the Limca Book of Records for the Largest Beat box Ensemble.