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The Beatbox Queen Ashley Saywut?! Moyer: On Becoming A Dominant Female Act


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Ashley Moyer aka Saywut?! is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Widely known for her unique talent of Beatboxing (producing sounds and beats through her mouth), Ashley is an award winning female beatboxer. She has been a fixture in the hip hop scene from coast to coast performing for Federal and state educational, environmental, and humanitarian aid workshops through the use of non-traditional, alternative music outlets.Ashley’s performances and workshops are directed towards community awareness and development through education and acceptance of alternative music outlets. Her social and cultural workshops include Sequoia Adolescent Treatment Center, Albuquerque Public Schools, Santa Fe Public Schools, The Girls Ranch, Santa Fe Indian School, the YDDC (ABQ Youth Detention Center), and New Mexico Youth Organized.She toured Europe in 2011 with CocoRosie as their beatboxer and was a guest of La MaMa Theater in Manhattan, NY during their annual North American Human Beatbox Festival both years of 2010 & 2011.More recently she was featured in Tom Tom Magazines Museum takeover of MoMa PS1 in Queens, NY and the Brooklyn Museum for The Verbal History Of Female Drummers.Ashley also taught incarcerated teen girls in 2013 how to produce, write and record their own music which was released through the non-profit New Mexico Jazz Workshop.She currently performs and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico and recently started her own skincare business, Beatbox Beauty Company. https://www.beatboxbeauty.comThis episode first aired June 07, 2021 for Broken Boxes on Radio Coyote, a project initiated by Raven Chacon and CCA Wattis Institute, on the occasion of Chacon's 2020-21 Capp Street Artist-in-Residency. Radio Coyote is currently produced by Atomic Culture and will transition to new programming on July 16, 2021. www.radiocoyote.org
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