Posted on 03/22/2008 1:53:23 PM PDT by skyman
A Westminster College sophomore has learned more about delivering mail than he ever thought was possible. He works on campus as a mailman.
He's also majoring in finance and hopes one day to get into the finance world, unless his unique hobby becomes his career.
Ever since he was a freshman, Dennis Garrett has been working in Westminster College's mail room. Many students work this job to make a little money. But when Garrett brings the mail, it's a special delivery. That's because Garrett is also a beat boxer. Beat boxing is a musical form that involves making noises with only your mouth.
Those he delivers boxes to like to hear his beat boxing. When he brings mail to the Student Life Building, sometimes he can't leave until he performs. When he gets started, everyone else stops what they're doing.
Laura Bellow said, "It's really cool. I don't know how he does it." Andrew Mitchell told us, "I can't do it. No way." Valeria Asher said, "I think I'm really old and he's really young, but it made me move. It's great."
Garrett says his parents used to worry when he would lock himself in his room to practice, but not anymore. Now, as a sophomore, he's won back-to-back Westminster talent shows (YouTube video of 2007 talent show at left ) and $4,000 in an online London competition.
Breathing while performing is difficult. Garrett says, "The snare that I use is breathing in." Another snare sound allows him to breathe out. "I couldn't breathe for maybe the first few months," he admitted.
Now he's just happy he can bring joy to others, even if it's only for a few minutes.
"I love it when people come up and they're like, ‘Good job! That was amazing!' That feeling, I think, is irreplaceable," he said.
Amazing...fun post
Well, if they decide to bring back the Police Academy series,
he’s got a job.
My 11-year-old wants a drum set. After this performance, maybe we should just get him a mike - it would take up a lot less room!
He’s got more talent than the entire group of rappers.
Damn!
That’s amazing.
Being a typical white person, that would make me very fearful and I would likely have to kick his arse.
bump - bump, bump
I am having trouble believing that all that was really coming out of his mouth. I thought at first he must have a sound system backing him up! Wow! and Wow! More videos of him at the Youtube site.
Yes this is not a typical white person ability, not at all. This makes us worried that talented beat boxing asian yutes will take our jobs.
Wow!
*Bump*
In a sense you are right. The sounds are given the large part of their mass and body by the preamp and microphone plus poweramp and speakers. If this talented guy stood 10 feet away from you and did his act you would hear some soft popping and grunts and not much more. He is playing the mic with, alternately, bursts of air and various mouth, throat and tongue sounds.
He’s a one man band, without instruments.
Little Butterscotch on Americas Got Talent was a world’s champion at that beatbox stuff. She also could sing and play the piano and other instruments, too. A puppet man who did great impersonations won it, but I sometimes think Butterscotch was the best talent.
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