Kevin Olusola

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kevin Olusola
Occupation	Pop Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 5, 1988(1988-10-05)
Age	36
Birthplace	Owensboro
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Libra

Kevin Olusola Biography

Kevin Olusola is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on October 5, 1988 in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States. American musician known best as a member of the band Pentatonix. He sang, performed as a beatboxer, and also played the cello, the saxophone, and several other instruments.

He and jazz musician Chick Corea both performed in 2012 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He has collaborated with @kirstin and @lukefontana on Instagram.

At Yale, Olusola planned to pursue medicine and finished all his pre-med requirements. He started as an academic music major, but decided to switch to East Asian Studies after being introduced to China through a 10-day Chinese government sponsored trip for 100 Yale students. He lived in Beijing for 6 months through a PKU-Yale joint program during his sophomore year, and then took a leave of absence during the 2009-2010 academic school year on Yale’s Light Fellowship to study intensive Chinese at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study in Beijing. In school, Olusola was the Director of Communications for a Rhodes Scholar-led non-profit called College Outreach, and he worked as a book monitor in the Yale Law School library and as a practice room monitor at the Yale School of Music. He graduated from Yale in 2011.

After Olusola’s academic stint in China, he spent the summer in Beijing working on his celloboxing version of Mark Summer’s “Julie-O” the summer of 2010 while living in a Chinese friend’s apartment as a way to begin expanding his skills. He continued working on it throughout the year and decided to audition to music schools with it. He ultimately decided to enroll in the Berklee College of Music. During his spring semester of senior year, Olusola (along with YouTube sensation Sam Tsui) was nominated for a graduation-day prize and videotaped “Julie-O” with the help of YouTube star and Yale alum Jake Bruene. Olusola posted the video on April 14, 2011, and by the second week, the video had reached number 6 on Reddit, and had become a viral video on the Internet, garnering national and international acclaim.

He was raised in Owensboro, Kentucky with a brother named Kellon and a sister named Candace. In October 2018, he became engaged to his girlfriend Leigh. The two married in 2019.

Kevin Olusola Net Worth

Kevin Olusola is one of the richest Pop Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kevin Olusola 's net worth $8 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He performed at Carnegie Hall when he was just 17 years old and went on to attend Yale University.

The members of his Pentatonix vocal group became the 2011 season champions of The Sing-Off, an NBC reality talent competition.

Kevin Olusola (born October 5, 1988) is a Nigerian – American musician, beatboxer, cellist, rapper, record producer, singer, and songwriter. Olusola is best known as the beatboxer of the vocal band Pentatonix. After the group won NBC’s The Sing-Off in 2011, they released five albums, which all charted in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 charts, have sold over 2 million records, and have amassed more than two billion views on their YouTube channel.

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Who is Kevin Olusola Dating?

According to our records, Kevin Olusola married to Leigh Weissman. As of December 1, 2023, Kevin Olusola’s is not dating anyone.

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On February 8, 2015, Pentatonix won a Grammy in the “Best Arrangement, Instrumental or a cappella” category for their song “Daft Punk”, a medley of songs by Daft Punk. On February 15, 2016, Pentatonix won a Grammy in the same category, this time for “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from their “That’s Christmas to Me” album. On February 12, 2017, Pentatonix won a Grammy in the “Best Country duo/group performance” category for “Jolene” which featured Dolly Parton.

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Kevin Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kevin Olusola celebrates birthday on October 5 of every year.

While at Yale, Olusola was one of the principal cellists of the Yale Symphony Orchestra and participated in chamber music. It was during his junior year when he started thinking about music as a career when, that previous summer in Beijing, he began working on “celloboxing”. One of his teachers at a Harvard summer intensive Chinese program suggested that he should try combining the two abilities. He won runner-up in Yo-Yo Ma’s “Celebrate and Collaborate With Yo-Yo Ma” competition (Ma said Olusola’s version of Dona Nobis Pacem was “inventive and unexpected”) and opened for KRS-One at Southern Connecticut State University. Olusola says that, during that spring break, his pre-med mentor C. Brandon Ogbunu (who was an MD/PhD student at Yale at the time) helped him to make the decision to finally go into music, saying medicine would always be there. After a summer of neurobiology research at Yale, Olusola moved to Beijing for his academic year of Chinese study and continuously honed his celloboxing skills. He started uploading celloboxing covers to his YouTube channel and performed for Ambassador Jon Huntsman, Jr. at his residence, and on Beijing Television with Li Yu Gang and Chong’er (Chinese beatboxer). He also met KorElement, an American rapper in Beijing, and they did covers on YouTube, in addition to performing together at the American Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

What did Kevin Olusola study at Yale?

Kevin Olusola ’06 developed the art of cello-boxing (cello and beatboxing together) while studying in China as a Yale University East Asian Studies and pre-med student. Medicine quickly took a backseat to the pursuit of his passion for music.

Does Kevin Olusola sing?

After a challenging year, Pentatonix’s singer-songwriter/beatboxer Kevin Olusola is especially grateful to come together with his longtime bandmates — Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstin Maldonado, and Matt Sallee — for the occasion.

How old is Kevin Olusola?

33 years (October 5, 1988)

Is Kevin from Pentatonix a dad?

I am so unbelievably proud to announce that I became a father this weekend. My incredible, amazing, superstar of a wife @leigh_olusola and I welcomed our firstborn daughter, Kaia Noelle Olusola, to the world on 4/3/21.

Who is the best boxer in Pentatonix?

Kevin “K.O.” Olusola is best known as the beat boxer of the Grammy- winning vocal quintet Pentatonix. The winners of season 3 of NBC’s The Sing- Off have more than 10 million YouTube subscribers (more than both Avicii and Beyoncé) and over 1.4 billion cumulative views.