Vineeth Vincent


Vineeth Vincent is a Beatboxer, Musician, emcee and performing artist from Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He is considered as India's biggest beatboxer with over 1250 shows in his credit since 2008. He is also the MC of the biggest youth fest in India - Under 25.

Career

Vineeth Vincent started off as a professional emcee in Bangalore during May 2007. In 2008, he took a year off from his studies at Christ University to pay more attention to music and beatboxing. He spent a month at Mrinalini Sarabhai's Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad, where he mingled with artists and had the chance to experiment with beatboxing. He returned to Bangalore and has been working since 2008 as a professional beatboxer.
He performed with The Boxettes in 2010 and Austrian beatboxing group Bauchklang in 2009 among many other artists and bands. In the search for beatboxing talent by the British Council Library, He was selected as part of the final eight and performed with Voctronica. Vineeth Vincent was given the duty of Cultural Secretary to lead the cultural activities at Christ University during the academic year 2010–11 and during this period two world records were initiated.
By the end of 2017, Vineeth has over 1250 shows in his credit. Held two titles, one for Guinness Book of World Records, and one for Limca book of world records. Has Spoken four times at TEDx, and two times at Josh Talks, and adding to it, he hosted and performed at MI Talks, Delhi.
Vineeth, for the long time, wanted to collaborate beatbox with a different instrument. The combination of two great beat boxers and an instrument that is unknown to people is the brand new plan of Vineeth. Through the ‘Video A Week’ project called # they put out a cover of a new song at a different location every week, recording both, the audio and video live.

World record

On 10 January 2011, Christ Junior College, Bangalore, under ensemble director Vineeth Vincent, in an event titled 'Can You Say Beat Box?' created the largest human beatbox ensemble in the Limca Book of Records with 2136 participants.
According to the Guinness World Records, the previous record for the largest human beatbox ensemble involved 1,246 participants and was achieved by Vineeth Vincent and Christ University in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, on 5 February 2011. This record was broken by Shlomo on 14 November 2011 with 2,081 participants.

Festivals and speaker platforms

Vineeth represented India on the Judge's panel for the first ever ‘India Beat boxing championship which was held from 6 to 9 December 2016 in Nagaland. He was one of the five judges who came from across the globe to judge the battle.