soce, the elemental wizard
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Andrew Singer |
| Origin | New York City |
| Genre(s) | Hip hop, Homo hop |
| Occupation(s) | rapper and producer |
| Years active | 2003-present |
| Website | www.GreatHipHop.com |
| Notable instrument(s) | |
| violin, piano, guitar and bass | |
Soce, the elemental wizard (born Andrew Singer) is a New York City-based rapper and producer and one of the rap scene’s few openly gay MCs.
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[edit] About Soce
In addition to rapping onstage, Soce plays the violin, piano, guitar and bass. During his performances, he typically dons a wizard’s cap.[1]
Soce is a graduate of Yale University[2] and Phillips Exeter Academy. He is Jewish.[3]
[edit] Music
[edit] Videos and Flash Featurettes
As well as comedy videos, Soce currently has four flash featurettes: Sad and Lonely, RPG Interlude, Internet Treasure Quest and The Shortest Adventure Game You'll Ever Play. Sad and Lonely has been screened at film festivals in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Florida and Brazil, and Soce floats has been screened in at a festival in LA.
[edit] Appearances
Soce recently completed a US tour as well, where he did shows in Chicago, Iowa City, Dubuque, Minneapolis, Mountain View, San Diego and Los Angeles. He also recently appeared on MTV, VH1, here!, Logo, WNYC and Sirius Satellite Radio, (Howard Stern, OutQ, Raw Dog Comedy and Shade 45).
He produces music for many other performers, including the track "Lick It" by God-des and She, which they performed live on the season finale of The L Word and produced "The Whole World" by MF Grimm--which appears on Grimm's new album American Hunger in addition to "Sick" by QBoy, which also features soce contributing a guest verse. He also produced the music for the music video "Hold Tight" by Rob Cantrell.
Bigg Nugg released a CD single and a music video of his collaboration with Soce, entitled "I Remember".
In 2007, Soce co-hosted NYC's gay pride parade, along with fellow gay artist Sandra Grace. Soce and Sandra will be co-hosting the gay pride parade again in 2008.
[edit] Discography
- Dream de la Dream 2003
- I'm in My Own World 2004
- The Lemonade Incident 2005
[edit] Master of Fine Arts
Soce's upcoming album, Master of Fine Arts, will be coming out in 2008, and will feature a mix of gay and straight rappers and singers as special guests, including Deadlee, Tori Fixx, Elena Azzoni (Miss Lez 2007), Jon Berger, Fresh Daily and Paul Bauer.
[edit] References
- ^ Breindel, Marc. "Gay Jewish rapper keepin' it real", Gay.Com, 30 November 2005.
- ^ Radner, Ronni. "Magic Man", Out Magazine, October 2005.
- ^ Shinefield, Mordechai. "White. Gay. Jewish. Rapper?", The Jewish Daily Forward, 12 August 2005.
