Julia Dales is a typical Ashbury College Grade 12 student who keeps a 95% average and enjoys music (she sings, writes music and plays guitar), but she has also been beatboxing since age 6 the way some children take up piano lessons. Beatboxing, for the uninitiated, involves making “drum sounds with your mouth,” according to Julia. But what is clear from the video below is that beatboxing is a lot more than drum noises, with a variety of percussion, DJ scratching sounds and more, all of which comes together to make a new song.
In Julia’s case, that new song – put up on YouTube for all to see (and several hundred thousand people have seen it) – resulted in an upcoming trip to Berlin to compete against 20 other aspiring young women beatboxers in the Beatbox Battle World Championship.
Beatboxing isn’t listed as one of the programs at Ashbury College, but it wouldn’t surprise me if school officials see increased interest from students. Perhaps one day beatboxing will even appear in the list of music offerings.
Go Julia Go!! We’ll all be cheering for you in Berlin!!
i could beatbox better than this girl in my sleep… NOT.