INCREDIBLE BEATBOXER RECREATES ENTIRE ORCHESTRA BY ONLY USING HIS VOICE

French beatboxer and singer Mohamed Belkhir used just his mouth to mimic a complete orchestra in an amazing demonstration of skill and range. The 28-year-old performer mimicked the sounds of an operatic singer, a chorus, and multiple instruments. After that, he combined all of the sounds by layering them using his loop station.

Belkhir, a self-taught beatboxer, singer, and musician with a natural sense of harmony, goes by the stage moniker MB14. He characterises his work as "centred on the human voice" and a "musical cocktail" of rapping, beatboxing, and singing in the biography on his YouTube account. Despite having started beatboxing in 2010, Belkhir's skills gained national recognition in 2016 when he participated in the fifth season of The Voice France. Producers saw his amazing beatbox rendition of Massive Attack's "Teardrop" and invited him to compete. "I was the outsider, the beat boxer who sang a little at the time," he recalls.

In a thrilling—and unexpected to Belkhir—turn of events, he placed second and returned to the competition in 2021 as a member of The Voice: All Stars (France). He underwent a substantial artistic transformation in the five years that separated his appearances on The Voice. He still loves beatboxing, but he's started concentrating on opera and film as mediums. 

In the movie Tenor, which came out this spring, he plays a sushi delivery kid whose skills are discovered by a singing instructor at the Paris Opera. He spent a month and a half taking weekly operatic singing classes to get ready for the part.

He claims, "It unblocked me a lot audibly." "I found the depth of my chest voice there after spending a lot of time in the head voice. Working on this movie gave me fresh perspectives. I now listen to opera nearly every day. I no longer want to think of myself as only a beatboxer because it hindered my creative potential. In order to avoid locking myself in a register, I want to take advantage of every opportunity.

The stunning rendition of the Middle Eastern song and the recently released film are just two examples of Belkhir's growing body of work.