My Voice Is a Beat

About the Author

Kevin Olusola is an American musician, beatboxer, cellist, producer, singer, and songwriter. Kevin is best known as the beatboxer of the three-time Grammy Award–winning, multiplatinum-selling vocal quintet Pentatonix. The group boasts more than ten million albums sold and over twenty million subscribers on YouTube, and it is well-known as an arena-touring act around the globe. His solo music fuses classical music and popular styles to a genre of its own. Kevin has performed at classical musical festivals such as the Amsterdam Cello Biennale, opened the TED Conference in Vancouver, and was chosen by Quincy Jones to represent him in concert at the 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival on the same program as Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea. Kevin was raised in Owensboro, Kentucky, in a Christian home by his father, a Nigerian psychiatrist, and his mother, a Grenadian nurse. Along with his brother and sister, Olusola was taught to put his faith in God. An outspoken Christian, Kevin uses social media and technology to connect with and minister to Christian creatives all around the world. Kevin strives to faithfully follow God’s plan and chooses to use his platform to guide aspiring artists who strive to include God in secular industries. DeAndra Hodge is an illustrator and designer based in Washington, D.C., who graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Montevallo. She loves drawing characters, imaginative scenes, and anything with bright colors. She is best known as the illustrator of the Kid Confident, That Girl Lay Lay, and Beyond the Game series, as well as Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark and Tell Me About Juneteenth.