BeardyMan
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Darren Foreman (b. 14 May 1982) alias BeardyMan is a beatboxer from Brighton, East Sussex. He is currently the UK beatboxing champion.
[edit] Biography
Foreman moved to Brighton in 2001 to study at the University of Sussex. After seeing Rahzel play live, he started beatboxing at an improv show in 2003. He was given the nick-name “Beardyman” because at the time, he had a beard.
He has gigged and recorded with Klum-Z-Tung as part of MC/beatbox duo The Gobfathers, Together, they presented Get Lucky TV's 'The Freestyle Show” in 2005. He has worked alongside Grooverider, Shy FX, Killa Kela, Jazzy Jeff and Andy C to name a few. He is best known as the UK Beatbox Champion 2006.
Beardyman often uses humour as well as beatboxing in his act. He has impersonated Elvis, parodied a cookery show and once posed as an Austrian climate change lecturer before breaking into his set. Beardyman also features in the Funky Sage ringtones in which he plays a floating head who beatboxes and gives good advice.
During November 2006 he took part in a series of children's choir charity concerts called Young Voices appearing in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Belfast.
On 10 February 2007 he made an appearance on the second episode of the BBC1 show When Will I Be Famous. Despite winning over the studio audience and two of the three judges, he came second in a public vote. On the same day, he was on also on the Channel 4 show Homemade where he was profiled as the weirdest beatboxer around.
Music seems to run in his family. His brother is comedy musician Jay Foreman who wrote the song "Moon Chavs" among others.
Beardyman will represent the UK in the World Beatboxing Championships in Germany in 2007.
