Peter Sampson, known professionally as THePETEBOX, is a live looping human beatbox artist from the UK. He was crowned the

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beatbox champion in 2005.

Career

THePETEBOX uses a loop pedal to create songs using his vocal and beatboxing ability. He won the 2005

Beatbox Championships, and was named as a winner of the year's

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Talent Awards. THePETEBOX has toured around the UK, Africa, France, Norway, Czech Republic, and appeared at Isle of Wight, Bestival, V, Leeds, Reading, Latitude, Creamfields and Glastonbury festivals. In 2007, THePETEBOX featured in a TV advert for

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mobile phones. The advert aired in March 2007 in Mexico and will be shown in Panama and Guatemala later in the year. THePETEBOX was also a member of the bands

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and WeShowUpOnRadar. THePETEBOX appeared in the UK and US television coverage of the 2009 World Free Running Championships on 15 August. Other TV appearances include ITV's ''Skillicious'' in 2009, and ITV's ''Odd One In'' in 2010. The same year, he toured twice with the dance group

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. THePETEBOX released his debut album ''Future Loops'' on 11 April 2012. It is a live, studio album - each track is performed, mixed, effected and recorded live in a studio environment to a stereo mix. This process is filmed, creating a live performance video of the recordings themselves. In 2023, THePETEBOX participated on the twelfth series of ''

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'' on Team

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and finished as a semi-finalist.

Discography

*''Future Loops'' (2012) *''Live to Tape 001'' (2013) *''Songs from the Vaults'' (2017) *''The Strings'' (2018) *''Use The Fire'' (2018)

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.thepetebox.com, THePETEBOX official website
THePETEBOX
on

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* THePETEBO
on YouTube
British beatboxers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)