A hip hop artist who does significantly more than just beatbox with his voice. Pretty amazing stuff.
Michael Winslow is a hip hop artist?
WOW! Thanks for sharing!
Woah.
He also can do the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps.
Bobby McFerrin vs Michael Winslow
Holy crap that was unreal.
I had a pretty good day today, and now I’ve watched that. 
Thanks, Chefguy! That totally fucking rocked!
Hip-hop, no, but apparently he’s now a rocker.
Though I will say I’m surprised at his percussion sounded at the beginning. It got better, but at first it sounded worse than the vocal percussionists in the various a capella bands.
Which makes me wonder: would he ever feature with one of those bands? That could be amazing! (Just please not Pentatonix. They cheat by using effects, which would make Winslow not seem as amazing as he is.)
Actually, in another interview, he does refer to what he does as hiphop, saying that he’s available if Peter Jackson wants to add hip-hop to the Middle Earth movies.
(I started the interview where he does a bit about Kiwi sound effects, the comment comes in a bit.)
I assumed so, since I have never heard of him.
Michael Winslow is amazing, and has been around for 30+ years. Police Academy movies; the submarine movie with Kelsey Grammar where MW is the sonor man, as you might expect. Dude knows how to manipulate his voice - and play lead mic, using its threshold for overdrive to his advantage - like nobody’s business. His guitar tones are rockin’!!
What I really loved was his working with the guitarist. It was very clear that they had gone over it maybe once before playing it live. But the guitar player was attentive and MW was working him like James Brown, feeding him cues with his eyes, words (“okay, lead”)and even touch when he got him to sit down. The whole song was seamless so watching that Field Generalship in action to pull it off was fun. That’s my job in my bands so I guess I pay attention to it. 
It is often interesting to hear comedians whose vocal skills are central to their Funny do straight singing - meaning selling it as a sincere vocal vs. selling it for shtick. He totally pulls it off. Adam Sandler rarely straight sings, but when he does, he has a great instrument. So does Jimmy Fallon. Has anyone heard Vocal Imitator Frank Caliendo sing; I bet he could kill. Oh, Fred Travelena and Frank Gorshin both where great singers…
I thought I saw a clip with the real guys but this appears to be what I saw:
I vaguely remember the sound effects guy in the Police Academy film (never watched any sequels), although I seem to remember that I thought it was faked. I guess he’s just never been on my radar, but will have to check out some videos.
Perhaps it’s been…jammed.