Pentatonix’s Kevin Olusola to perform Oct. 4

Oct. 3, 2016 | Campus Life |

Campus Activities Board will present “An Evening with Kevin Olusola” on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 9 p.m. in the Administration Auditorium. The Pentatonix beat machine will perform and speak about his journey, his passion for music and his time with Pentatonix.

The winner of season three of NBC’s “The Sing-Off,” Pentatonix has more than 10 million YouTube subscribers and more than 1.4 billion cumulative views. The group has released four studio albums, each landing in the top 15 of Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart and cumulatively selling roughly 1.5 million albums.

Olusola grew up in the small town of Owensboro, Kentucky. At an early age, he began learning piano, cello and saxophone. He performed at Carnegie Hall twice as soloist on the cello and saxophone and has appeared on NPR’s “From the Top .”

After finishing high school at Phillips Academy Andover, Olusola enrolled in Yale University where he was pre-med and majored in East Asian studies. He spent 18 months in Beijing becoming fluent in Chinese as a part of his Yale fellowship.

While in college, Olusola began developing his celloboxing skills, and in 2009, he won second place in the “Celebrate and Collaborate with Yo-Yo Ma” international competition. In 2011, Olusola’s “Julie-O” celloboxing YouTube video was featured by CBS, AOL, Huffington Post and Washington Post, among others. He was also named one of 100 “History Makers in the Making” by NBC’s TheGrio and was hand-chosen by Quincy Jones to represent him in concert at the 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival alongside Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea.

Tickets for the event are $8 for students, $15 for the general public and free with the CAB pass.