Kevin Olusola: Musician, Beatboxer, and Pentatonix Member
Kevin Olusola is an American musician, beatboxer, rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has a net worth of $8 million and is best known for being a member of the acapella group Pentatonix. Olusola was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, in October 1988 and has been credited with inventing the art of celloboxing, which combines playing cello and beatboxing.
Pentatonix won the third season of the reality TV series The Sing-Off on NBC, earning $200,000 and a recording contract with Sony Music. After being dropped from their label, the group formed a YouTube channel which now has more than eight million subscribers and almost a billion views.
The band has released several albums, including PTX, Vols. 1 & 2, PTX, That’s Christmas to Me, A Pentatonix Christmas, and their self-titled album. Their third album, That’s Christmas to Me, became the highest charting holiday album in the US since 1962 and the fourth best-selling overall album that year. Pentatonix won a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella for “Daft Punk” in 2015 and for “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” in 2016. Their documentary Pentatonix – On My Way Home was released in June 2015, and the group won another Grammy Award in 2017 with Dolly Parton for Best Country duo/group performance.
