""Gui Jing's BEATBOX Revelation""
Gui Jing, currently the top BEATBOXER in China, was born on August 26, 1986 in a Korean family in Yanji City, Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province .
The living environment he grew up in made him, like many Yanbian people, fluent in Korean and Mandarin.
Later he also taught himself English and German, of course because of his fascination with hip-hop culture in Western countries.
He nicknamed himself "Hip-Hop Crab" precisely because "crab" and his last name "Gui" have similar pronunciations in Korean
He himself is a person who deeply loves hip-hop culture.
So he humorously calls himself a "HIPHOP crab" who likes HIPHOP.
After graduating from Yanji No. 2 Middle School, Gui Jing studied at Changchun Normal University.
But his obsession with HIPHOP and BEATBOX began long before he entered high school.
In the winter of 2002, I accidentally saw a video while surfing the Internet. A man in white was holding a microphone to cover Xuanxuan's gestures, and at the same time made several sounds rhythmically from his mouth.
He introduced that this is a performance called BEATBOX, a musical performance that does not use any musical instruments and only relies on the most primitive vocal organ of human beings - our mouths.
It is a human The most original and pure form of music.
Gui Jing was deeply moved and impressed by her BEATBOX performance. It turned out that she could create such fascinating music with just one mouth.
So he decided, how does this BEATBOX work? It is necessary to find out.
He then searched for BEATBOX on several major domestic search engines, but did not find satisfactory results.
Unwilling to be reconciled, he searched on foreign search engines. His hard work paid off and he finally found a forum (humanbeatbox), which contained BEATBOX produced by founder TYTE. Basic tutorial. At that time, this forum gathered BEATBOXER from all over the world,
Everyone communicated in it! Because this HBB forum was in English, Gui Jing was forced to master English in order to learn BEATBOX better,
It was from then on that Gui Jing’s language talent also improved.
From then on, Gui Jing began his long journey of exploring BEATBOX.
At the beginning, no one paid attention to him, no one taught him, and no one forced him.
The real motivation for every day’s research and practice comes from his own strong desire and love for BEATBOX.
But it is precisely because of this that he is even more unwilling to give up. In this way, day after day, year after year, after a long period of hard work, when Gui Jing's BEATBOX was relatively mature, he discovered the website IMDJ.
IMDJ is a music network in Yanbian, which has now been reopened.
It is an underground stage for young people in Yanbian who are obsessed with HIPHOP to communicate and share their original works.
Anyone can publish their own HIPHOP masterpieces on the website.
Some upload their own RAP, hip-hop videos, graffiti works, and of course some upload their own BEATBOX.
Many people directly set IMDJ as their browser homepage. The first thing they do after turning on their computer every day is to check if any cool new works have been uploaded.
IMDJ is truly a hip-hop paradise for young people. Its popularity exceeds everyone’s imagination.
After Gui Jing tried to publish his work on IMDJ under the name "HIPHOP Crab", the result was beyond his imagination.
Many are known for their picky vision. IMDJ members also praised Gui Jing's works and strongly urged Gui Jing to continue publishing her works.
"HIPHOP Crab" has since emerged in Yanbian's underground HIPHOP scene. He has uploaded many extremely creative works and has a large group of enthusiastic fans.
And he has made many friends and friends. I am a like-minded brother who loves HIPHOP. Many of them later became the leaders of Yanbian HIPHOP.
They also spontaneously founded the HIPHOP Enthusiasts Association.
The influence has even been deeply implanted in Yanbian, the highest university in Yanbian. On the university campus,
BMT (Black Music Town), the first university HIPHOP club in China, appeared. Its members are extremely active.
Not only did they collaborate on several underground The album was released and HIPHOP performances were regularly performed at various public venues in Yanji.
Gui Jing often performs live performances as a special guest.
Soon after, "HIPHOP Crab" Gui Jing became a household name in Yanbian UNDERGROUND.
No one who has listened to his BEATBOX works has not been shocked by his skillful technique and easy style changes.
Not long after, Gui Jing produced the first set of BEATBOX instructional videos in China, hoping to share more of the fun that BEABOX brings to everyone.
Not long after the video was released, He got a lot of response from people, and many people officially joined the ranks of learning BEATBOX, especially in his hometown of Yanbian, where there were even more masters.
Not long after that, a Gui Jing called him Brother Feng's people saw Gui Jing's video on the Internet and were very interested in it.
Bringing equipment, they came to Yanbian to shoot a documentary for Gui Jing and Yanbian BEATBOX.
During this period, Gui Jing organized the first YBBOX Championship competition. At that time, there were only more than 10 people participating in the competition, but all of them were masters.
The winner of this competition was MAZZLE, the runner-up, sars7h, the third runner-up, cune! And The live audience will serve as judges!
Perhaps Gui Jing finally saw the scene she wanted to see the most that day, the crowd who were as obsessed with HIPHOP as in the movie "8 Mile"!
Brother Feng, who loves to help others, filmed a complete set of BEATBOX basic teaching videos for Gui Jing and posted them on Tudou.com, which was promoted on the homepage of Tudou.
Now nationwide People got to know Gui Jing through Tudou.com, which also established his status in the country!
Gui Jing also won the Best Original Work Award at the Tudou Film Festival and was invited to perform live at the awards ceremony.
Unconsciously, he is no longer just a star on the Yanbian website, but the most popular BEATBOXER in China. Through the introduction of Brother Feng, Gui Jing and his two godbrothers MAZZLE and LEO were fortunate enough to tour in Beijing, Shanghai and the famous beatboxer Killa Kela in the UK. This experience also made international friends know each other. Gui Jing from Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China
! When performing BEATBOX, Gui Jing is fully engaged every time, completely integrated with the rhythm.
He is like a bird flying into the blue sky or a fish swimming into the sea, flying freely in the rhythmic world.
Seeing such a performance, even people who have never been exposed to BEATBOX will unconsciously nod their heads to the wonderful rhythm created by Gui Jing.
In early 2008, Guijing organized the second YBBOX Championship competition.
The scope of this competition involved beatboxers across the country, Shenyang’s Anke, Beijing Bozi, and Xi’an’s Jackie Chan. Wait~many cool people
are coming to participate! After more than 2 years of tracking and recording, the first documentary about beatbox in China, "YBBOX", was finally completed and released online.
In the documentary, we can see Gui Jing’s own BEATBOX philosophy.
He is very disgusted with the behavior of trying to make money from fans through BEATBOX. "Some people only know money. For them, BEATBOX is just a tool to make money. I am disgusted with such people." Gui Jing explain.
He hopes that BEATBOX is a pure artistic performance rather than a fast-paced teaching class.
He also does not recommend that fans learn BEATBOX by reading the so-called "BEATBOX score". What he advocates is the most original learning method and the purest motivation.
He masters pronunciation by listening repeatedly and imitating constantly. He comes to BEATBOX because he likes it, because that is what he does.
In addition to Gui Jing’s wonderful BEATBOX works and extraordinary musical talent, his own personality charm also fascinated fans.
As a person with such a famous reputation, Gui Jing is very humble, never puts on airs, and is very low-key in everything he does.
He even appeared in the Yanji City Hall where he has many fans. * He is also so low-key in public places that almost no one pays attention to him.
Furthermore, Gui Jing is very kind to others and will not be impatient when receiving sudden calls from fans.
He also likes to talk to others. Friends gathered for dinner and chatted, and many people said that even if he was not a famous BEATBOXER, I would be happy to make friends with such a person.
In order to protect her voice and make the clearest and most powerful BEATBOX, Gui Jing is also very restrained in smoking and drinking, because smoking and drinking are not good for her throat and can make her voice hoarse. The sound quality of the BEATBOX is blurred, and what's worse is that it will reduce the vital capacity, so that you will be out of breath and embarrassed when doing the BEATBOX.
You know, this is not easy in the Yanbian circle of friends where everyone is either a "wine geek" or a "big smoker."
A friend said: "When I first met Gui Jing, I thought this person was very weird. He was the only one among my friends who refused to smoke the cigarette I handed him.
At that time I thought this guy was not an ordinary character, but later I found out that he did all this for BEATBOX. I admire his perseverance very much."
Although Gui Jing is not a professional musician, it is undeniable that he is. He is a real BEATBOXER. Maybe he will never take this career path.
Because he likes this street feeling very much. HIPHOP is originally a street culture. You don’t really need to go to "hip-hop". Building" to work, as long as you really like it.
His understanding and philosophy of HIPHOP life have become quite mature and perfect.
The boy who was full of confusion when he first saw BEATBOX perform now has the style of a master in every move he makes.
Everyone who loves BEATBOX is looking forward to Gui Jing’s next wonderful performance.