Mixed Vocal Arts

[Kid Lucky]

Mixed Vocal Arts is vocal style named by Terry Kid Lucky Lewis. As a Beatboxer Kid Lucky started realizing the different vocal styles that were used previously before beatboxing were being used for this vocal style.Beatboxers were unaware of this connection. Kid Lucky started studying various vocal styles including, humming, whistling, scatting, vocal sound effects, singing, spoken word, yodeling, rapping, Tuvan throat singing and more. Then he started combining them all together to create Mixed Vocal Arts. He found that by doing this his song writing became more complex and he found that writers block was erased when he had more "vocal tools" to utilize and ideas to pull from. He listened to master vocalists like Bobby Mcferrin, Doug E Fresh, Michael Winslow, Mike Patton, Diamanda Galas, David Pleasant, Ella Fitzgerald and more but these vocalists were notorious for mixing up their vocal styles and combining them.Kid Lucky uses a teaching system he calls The American Lettering Technique which uses the American alphabet as the basis of all vocal arts. This vocal teaching system allows for anyone from professional vocalists to a beginner students with no vocal training to learn basic techniques in rapping, spoken word, vocal sound effects, and human beatboxing and combine them into song structures and performance pieces easily. He calls this combining of vocal styles Mixed Vocal Arts.