30 Facts About Kevin Olusola

Kevin Olusola has been identified as developing the art of "celloboxing".

Kevin Olusola's celloboxing version of Mark Summer's "Julie-O" went viral in April 2011, which led him to become involved with Pentatonix.

Kevin Olusola has performed at classical musical festivals such as the Amsterdam Cello Biennale and the Kronberg Academy Festival, opened the TED Conference in Vancouver, and was chosen by Quincy Jones to represent him in concert at the 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival on the same program as Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea.

Kevin Olusola was born in Pasadena, California, to Nigerian-born Oluwole Kevin Olusola, a psychiatrist, and Grenadian-born Curline Paul, a nurse.

Kevin Olusola started his education at Greater Philadelphia Junior Academy, but his family eventually moved to Owensboro, Kentucky, where he was raised.

Kevin Olusola attended the Triplett School, a Montessori-based school, for a short period of time before his parents transferred him to the Owensboro Public Schools, where he went to Sutton Elementary School for their accelerated math program that allowed him to take precalculus starting in the 9th grade.

Kevin Olusola decided to enroll at Phillips Academy Andover for 11th grade.

Kevin Olusola says that Andover taught him to have a strong work ethic, tenacity, and discipline.

Kevin Olusola went from an average student to a high honors student in his senior year.

Kevin Olusola was involved in community service and Spanish-speaking activities, where he led the Spanish language table and went to Costa Rica for four weeks to study Spanish.

At Yale, Kevin Olusola planned to pursue medicine and finished all his pre-med requirements.

Kevin Olusola 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.

In school, Kevin 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.

Kevin Olusola's parents discovered his musical talent when he was six months old and decided to put him in music lessons.

Kevin Olusola started the piano at age 4, the cello at age 6, and alto saxophone at age 10.

When Kevin Olusola was 12 years old, he was selected as the principal saxophonist of the United States Collegiate Wind Band and toured Europe during the summer for three weeks.

Kevin Olusola was the principal cellist of the Kentucky State Youth Orchestra and received the highest honor at the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.

Kevin Olusola soloed and performed in a piano trio at Carnegie Hall as the winner of the American Fine Arts Festival, and soloed a second time on alto saxophone for PBS's special "From the Top at Carnegie Hall".

Kevin Olusola won runner-up in Yo-Yo Ma's "Celebrate and Collaborate With Yo-Yo Ma" competition and opened for KRS-One at Southern Connecticut State University.

Kevin Olusola started uploading celloboxing covers to his YouTube channel and performed for Ambassador Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Kevin Olusola 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.

Kevin Olusola continued working on it throughout the year and decided to audition to music schools with it.

Kevin Olusola ultimately decided to enroll in the Berklee College of Music.

Kevin 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.

At the time the video was going viral, Kevin Olusola was contacted by Scott Hoying who was impressed by his musicality and beatboxing skills.

The second weekend after Kevin Olusola graduated from college, he met the group the day before the audition, and Pentatonix was born.

Kevin Olusola became more interested in songwriting and production, especially with how stomping and clapping could be used as an effective production tool for bolstering their a cappella tracks.

Kevin Olusola released a solo EP in early 2015, titled The Renegade EP.

Kevin Olusola is a Seventh-day Adventist, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Kevin Olusola started dating college admissions consultant Leigh Weissman in 2017 after they met through mutual friend.