KO: There was a song by Musiq Soul Child called “ Just Friends.” It starts off with a melody line where he’s beatboxing also. I caught up with Kevin to talk about how he got started, the trickiest sounds to make, and Pentatonix’s runaway success. Kevin’s look has evolved since college-less backpack, more swagger-but he’s just as enthusiastic in a leather jacket, laying down the beat for an Imagine Dragons song, as he once was in a tux performing Beethoven symphonies. Two years later, he’s helped the group rack up more than 230 million YouTube views, score gigs on Conan and The Today Show, and release three albums. They tracked him down and asked him to join them for NBC’s “The Sing-Off. In 2011, a Texas vocal trio came across a video clip of his “ celloboxing“-beatboxing and playing the cello at the same time. Nowadays, Kevin (a.k.a “KO”) is known among YouTube fans as the beatboxer for Pentatonix (PTX), the a cappella group whose version of “Little Drummer Boy” is hovering at the very top of Billboard‘s Holiday chart. In college, when I played violin in the Yale Symphony Orchestra, our principal cellist was a guy named Kevin Olusola, a goofy, Chinese-studying, bear-hugging premed. The run of shows will wrap up on April 27.Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Warwick launched this new album era with an updated version of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic, “What The World Needs Now Is Love,” which Warwick originally recorded in the 1960s.Īhead of releasing She’s Back, her first dedicated R&B/soul album since 1969’s Scepter Records effort Soulful, Warwick can be seen performing a Las Vegas residency at the Jubilee Theater at Bally’s.
She also invited Kenny Lattimore (“What Color Is Love”) and Krayzie Bone of Bone, Thugs & Harmony (“Déjà Vu”) for the ten-track album. “Am I Dreaming” featuring Musiq Soulchild is one of three collaborations on She’s Back, which arrives on May 10 via Kind Music Group/Entertainment One. Their sweet tones together make remake an honorable version behind the 1999 cover by Ol Skool with Xscape and Keith Sweat. The reworking of the classic is modern and compliments Warwick’s gentle cadences and Musiq’s smooth vocal approach.
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