Birth name Jason Tom Also known as 譚志豪, 谭志豪 | Years active 2004–present Name Jason Tom | |
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Born November 21, 1982 (age 41)
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, United States ( 1982-11-21 ) Occupation(s) Musician
teacher
dancer
inspirational & motivational speaker
slam poet
performance poet
vocal percussionist
beatboxer
performance artist Instruments Vocals, vocal percussion, beatboxing Associated acts Michael Winslow
Jake Shimabukuro
Kamuela Kahoano
Pimpbot
Kealoha
Makana Role Musical Artist · jasontom.com Genres Hip hop music, Dancehall, House music, Reggaeton, Drum and bass, Dubstep Similar People Kamuela Kahoano, Kealoha, Pimpbot, Darren Robinson, Jake Shimabukuro | ||
Jason tom apex 2011
Jason Tom (born November 21, 1982) is an American musician, performance poet, and motivational speaker known for beatboxing in music, dance, and poetry slams. As the founder of the Human Beatbox Academy, he does outreach with performances, workshops and events for people of all ages. Tom has toured China and collaborated with groups such as Hawaii Meth Project and Music With A Message. His Hawaii beatbox class at the Art Smith was included in "Our Favorite Things" in the April 2012 issue of Hawaii Business Magazine. Tom has opened for Michael Winslow, Jabbawockeez, and Quest Crew. He also is a part of the newly formed Hawaii Hip-Hop Collective.
Contents
- Jason tom apex 2011
- Jason tom bruno mars party at paparazzi hawaii
- Early life background and education
- 20092010
- 20112012
- 2013
- Speaker
- Releases
- References
Jason tom bruno mars party at paparazzi hawaii
Early life, background, and education
At age four, Tom recorded himself on audio cassette tapes singing Michael Jackson's "Bad." He combined scat singing with an urban beatboxing technique known as an inward K snare drum. Although Tom played a toy piano, a ukulele and the tuba, he used beatboxing and other vocalizing as his primary musical instrument. He graduated from McKinley High School in 2001.
Tom graduated from Kapiolani Community College as a Phi Theta Kappa honor student with an associate degree in liberal arts in 2007. His Voice I professor at KCC, Lina Doo, introduced him to Tuvan throat singing and he incorporated it into his beatboxing after Doo encouraged him to watch Genghis Blues. Tom received a certificate of completion in intensive Chinese in summer 2006 from the Freeman Foundation China Scholarship Study Abroad Program at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
His secondary-education musical peers included American Idol's Jordan Segundo, Kalei Gamiao, and John Tussey, and he attended the first MELE Songwriters Workshop in 2009. Tom and Yelp Hawaii manager Emi Hart joined Adam Watts' songwriter workshop, and he composed "Listen Carefully (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)".
2009–2010
Tom was voted the Best Hawaii Musician Deserving of a Wider Audience by Honolulu Weekly in 2009. He represented Hawaii at the sixth international Human Beatbox Convention and the first American Beatbox Championship in Brooklyn.
2011–2012
Tom headlined the Honolulu Twestival with Kamuela Kahoano, Willow Chang and Emi Hart. Their combined contribution with the Honolulu Twestival team and attendees raised over $2,000 for the Blood Bank of Hawaii. He performed at the Aloha Music For Japan concert at the Aloha Tower Marketplace Centerstage. Tom founded the Human Beatbox Academy (Hawaii Beatbox School) and co-founded the ArtSmith studio in downtown Honolulu's arts district.
With Estria, he performed at the #WaterWrites Hawaii mural unveiling in Kalihi (near Honolulu Community College), the Estria Graffiti Battle, Honolulu and HIstory and the fifth annual Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, California. Tom was a top-eight performance poet finalist in HawaiiSlam's First Thursdays Grand Slam.
2013
He joined the Say Yes To Purpose tour with Diverse Art and the Academy of Hype and performed on the Music with a Message tour, visiting middle and high schools throughout Hawaii. Tom appeared in the film American Beatboxer, which documented the 2010 International Human Beatbox Convention (Boxcon) and American Beatbox Championship in Brooklyn which were organized by Humanbeatbox.com and the World Beatbox Association (WBA).
Speaker
On November 5, 2009, Tom was a presenter at the first TEDx Honolulu conference at the Hawaii Convention Center with Neil Blecherman, Jill Buck, Henk Rogers and Kaiser Kuo. In an interviewed with former Hawaii TV news reporter Angela, he said: "Successful people fail more". Tom also spoke at the TEDx Honolulu conference on November 1, 2011. TEDx Honolulu: It's About Time was hosted by Ka'ala Souza at the Honolulu Design Center's Cupolo Theatre.
Releases
Tom's T-shirt release party in Honolulu featured a collaboration of beatbox, locking, popping, and b-boying with Skillroy and Andy Tran. The shirt was hand-drawn by Hawaii artist JKS. He appeared on "I'm Movin' On" on Faioso's 2010 debut album, Nobody Owns Me.