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SO-SO

{{Other uses|So-so (disambiguation)}}

{{Family name hatnote|Kato|lang=Japanese}}

{{Infobox musical artist

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|10|13|mf=yes}}

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| birth_name = Sota Kato

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| name = SO-SO

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| birth_place = Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

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| genre = {{hlist|Vocal Music|EDM}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Beatboxer|singer-songwriter|composer|producer|DJ}}

| instrument = {{hlist|Beatboxing|beatrhyming|vocals|loop machines|piano|keyboards}}

| years_active = 2016–present

| label = Sokosoco

| associated_acts = {{hlist|SARUKANI|DOILii}}

| website = [https://sokosoco.com/so-so/ Official website]

| module = {{Infobox Chinese | child= yes

| kanji = 加藤 創太

| romaji = Kato Sota

| hiragana = かとう　そうた

| katakana = カトウ ソウタ

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{{Nihongo|Sota Kato|加藤 創太|Katō Sōta|born October 13, 1999}}, better known as SO-SO is a Japanese beatboxer, looper, singer-songwriter and producer. He is currently a member of the beatbox crew SARUKANI.

Early life

Born in Osaka, when he took piano classes since he was 6 years old because he was influenced by his friends around him.{{Cite web|last=アヴァンギャルド|date=2021-02-22|title=遊び心の原点。｜SO-SO|url=https://note.com/avant_garde/n/nc23e65a08ba7|language=ja}} He joined a theater company, Osaka Himawari{{Cite web|title=加藤創太（大阪【江坂スタジオ】・高等部）|url=http://www.himawari.net/school/kansai/osaka/voice/?myDittoCall_start=10|website=Himawari Theater|language=ja}} from elementary school and 10 years into his junior school graduation. He was mainly an extra in musicals, movies, and dramas such as a student in the Showa era and as a child during the war. In his freshman year of high school, he watched beatbox videos on YouTube and self-taught.{{Cite web|last=Hamada|first=Rin|date=2019-12-12|title=「自分を信じて進む」 若きアジアチャンピオン ビートボクサーSO-SO|url=https://boymeetsart.com/1042|website=Boy Meets Art|language=ja}} On his birthday in second grade of high school, he received a looper, BOSS RC-505,{{Cite web|date=2020-07-30|title=島村楽器梅田ロフト店お得意様アーティストレビュー！【ヒューマンビートボクサー、SO-SO】|url=https://www.shimamura.co.jp/shop/umeda/pa-rec/20200730/8264|website=Shimamura|language=ja}} from his mother and started a loop station. Entered in Osaka College of Music in 2018, he studied composition, music theory, mixing and continues to produce music.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-08|title=so-so（ビートボックス）の本名！いったい何者？出身地や経歴もチェック|url=https://kenko-noco.com/soso-realname/|language=ja}}

Career

In April 2019, he became popular because he was the first Japanese beatboxer to enter the top 4 in the loopstation category of the international competition Grand Beatbox Battle held in Poland in July. He also won the championship in the loopstation category of the Asian Beatbox Championship{{Cite web|date=2019-07-28|title=日本代表が2部門でアジアチャンピオンに！Asia Beatbox Championship 2019|url=https://japanbeatbox.com/2019/07/28/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E4%BB%A3%E8%A1%A8%E3%81%8C2%E9%83%A8%E9%96%80%E3%81%A7%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AB%EF%BC%81asia-beatbox-championship-20/|website=Japan Beatbox Association|language=ja}} in Taiwan in the same year. In 2020, he formed the beatbox crew SARUKANI and duo group DOILii, with Nijiiro Samurai. He is also start working as a DJ in December 2020.

In October 2021, he participated in international competition Grand Beatbox Battle held in Poland, and his won the championship in category Tag-team Loopstation with teammate, Rusy as SORRY and runner-up in Crew with SARUKANI.

Styles

SO-SO has a high voice that produces a unique sound from his mouth. While self-taught beatboxing from the video Reeps One and starting looping every day, he was inspired by various music, one of which was so heavily influenced by Canadian DJ REZZ that he was fascinated by bass music. After that, he studied electronic game music, musicals and others, so he created his voice with his own musical view.{{Cite web|last=Mochizuki|first=Tomohisa|date=2021-03-23|title=The Beat Looper Competing All Over the World: SO-SO on the Frontline of Beatboxing|url=https://block.fm/news/SOSO_interview_Eng|website=Block.fm}}

SO-SO is known to have a unique style in the way of fashion, colorful clothes, wearing glasses and haircut style like as anime character Nobita.{{Cite web|last=Shin|first=Dong-yoon|date=2019-11-01|title=WHY WE LOVE SO-SO'S NOT SO SO-SO BATTLE STRATEGY|url=https://www.humanbeatbox.com/articles/opinion/we-love-so-so/|website=Human Beatbox}}{{Cite web|date=2021-04-13|title=SO-SOの年齢、大学は？ビートボックスの経歴、海外の評価は？人気のビートボクサー！|url=https://nokiblog.work/characters/so-so-profile/|language=ja}}

Other ventures

SO-SO has maintained numerous national endorsement deals in various industries throughout their career. He starred in the commercial for Fuji School Bag on 2019–2020. In April 2021, he is in commercial for footwear retails ABC-Mart.{{Cite web|date=2021-04-15|title=アシックス「Evoride2 knit」、ABCマート限定モデル発売！ヒューマンビートボクサー「SO-SO(ソーソー)」を 起用したWEBCMを放映。|url=https://www.abc-mart.net/shop/pages/press-210415-asics.aspx|website=ABC-Mart|language=ja}}

Performance in competitions

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|+As participate on beatbox events

!Years

!Competitions

!Held

!Result

!Notes

2017

|Asian Beatbox Championship

|Taiwan

|Elimination

| rowspan="5" |Loopstation

2018

|Beatbox Battle World Championship

|Berlin, Germany

|Elimination

rowspan="2" |2019

|Grand Beatbox Battle

|Warsaw, Poland

|{{won|place=4|Top 4}}

Asian Beatbox Championship

|Taiwan

|{{won|place=1}}

rowspan="4" |2021

| rowspan="4" |Grand Beatbox Battle

| rowspan="4" |Warsaw, Poland

|Elimination

{{won|place=1}}

|Tag Team Loopstation

(with Rusy as SORRY)

{{won|place=2}}

|Crew

(part of SARUKANI)

Elimination

|Tag Team

(with Kaji as Wildcard Guys)

class="wikitable"

|+As appreciates on competitions or events

!Years

!Competitions / events

!Held

!Notes

rowspan="2" |2018

|12th GATSBY Creative Awards

|Tokyo, Japan

|Runner-up

(on music category)

China Beatbox Championship

|Beijing, China

|Showcase

2019

|Mynavi MIKAKUNIN Festival

| rowspan="2" |Tokyo, Japan

|Runner-up

rowspan="5" |2020

|DADERINRIN @Ebisu LIQUIDROOM{{Cite web|title=Eggs Presents「DADARINRIN」supported by SILAS|url=https://www.liquidroom.net/schedule/dadarinrin20200112|language=ja}}

| rowspan="4" |Performing

HaHaHa Osaka Creative Awards{{Cite web|title=HaHaHa Osaka Creative Awards|url=http://www.osaka-ad.or.jp/hahaha/|language=ja}}

|Osaka, Japan

Tap3x Dance{{Cite web|title=TAP たっぷり タップダンス！ official twitter|url=https://twitter.com/tap3dance|language=ja}}

|Toyonaka, Japan

Drum'n'Bass Exchange 1st Anniversary{{Cite web|title=DnB Koryukai twitter|url=https://twitter.com/dnb_koryukai/status/1355890428613062659|language=ja}}

|Osaka, Japan

Online World Beatbox Championship

|Beatbox Community's Discord

|Judges

2021

|One Night STAND @Shibuya Live House{{Cite web |date=2021-08-26 |title=One Night STAND post status on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/info_onstand/status/1430881993667973124?cxt=HHwWiMCowfLlwdsnAAAA }}

|Tokyo, Japan

|Performing

Discography

= Albums =

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! scope="col" |Title

! scope="col" |Details

scope="row" |Party

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{{hidden|Track listing|# Interview

  1. Switch It
  2. Midnight
  3. This is 8bit
  4. Psycho Looper
  5. Forest Fire
  6. Catastrophe}}
scope="row" |NO LOOP NO LIFE

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  • Released: December 7, 2019
  • Label: Independent, TuneCore Japan
  • Formats: digital download

{{hidden|Track listing|# NO LOOP NO LIFE

  1. Renegade
  2. Camp Fire
  3. Crazy Drive
  4. This is 16bit
  5. Ground Bell
  6. Fighting for Someone}}
scope="row" |Party 2.0

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  • Released: September 14, 2022
  • Label: Independent, TuneCore Japan
  • Formats: digital download

{{hidden|Track listing|# Error Sound

  1. SO-SO Exercise
  2. Crazy Drive (Boost the Engine)
  3. Hakai
  4. 2022
  5. Psycho Looper 2.0
  6. Switch It 2.0
  7. Interview 2.0
  8. This is 32 Bit
  9. Zooming!
  10. Aqua Splash (Album Edit)
  11. Sakura [2022 Remaster]
  12. Unknown Language}}

= Extended plays =

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! scope="col" |Title

! scope="col" |Details

scope="row" |Sakura (Remixes)

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  • Released: March 9, 2020
  • Label: Independent, TuneCore Japan
  • Formats: digital download

{{hidden|Track listing|# Sakura (PIKASONIC remix)

  1. Sakura (So-Ma:p remix)
  2. Sakura (4* remix)
  3. Sakura (NEKOSAN remix)}}
scope="row" |Beat Pandemic

|

  • Released: June 6, 2020
  • Label: Independent, TuneCore Japan
  • Formats: digital download

{{hidden|Track listing|# SARUKANI WARS (feat Kohey, Rusy & Kaji)

  1. Exercise
  2. Seaboard (SORRY remix) (with Rusy)
  3. Stranger
  4. NO LOOP NO LIFE (Fellsius remix) (with Fellsius)}}

= Singles =

== As lead artist ==

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! scope="col" |Year

! scope="col" |Album

scope="row" |"Myten 2016"

|2016

|{{N/A|Non-album single}}

scope="row" |"Interview"

| rowspan="5" |2019

| rowspan="2" |Party

scope="row" |"This is 8bit"
scope="row" |"CO3"

(feat. Kimura Rin)

|{{N/A|Non-album single}}

scope="row" |"Crazy Drive"

| rowspan="2" |NO LOOP NO LIFE

scope="row" |"NO LOOP NO LIFE"
scope="row" |"Sakura"

(feat. Kimura Rin)

| rowspan="2" |2020

|{{N/A|Non-album single}}

scope="row" |"SARUKANI WARS"

(feat. Kohey, Rusy & Kaji)

|Beat Pandemic

scope="row" |"Interview 2.0"

| rowspan="3" |2021

|{{N/A|Non-album single}}

scope="row" |"Psycho Looper 2.0"

| rowspan="2" |Psycho Looper 2.0

scope="row" |"Psycho Looper 2.0" (Allen Mock remix)
scope="row" |"2022"

|2022

|{{N/A|Non-album single}}

== As promotional singles ==

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! scope="col" |Title

! scope="col" |Year

! scope="col" |Album

scope="row" |"Darkness"

|2019

|Maronie Fashion Grand Prix

scope="row" |"Zooming!"

| rowspan="3" |2020

|ZOOM Vocal Proccesor V3

scope="row" |"I Scream"

(with Masayoshi Iimori)

| rowspan="2" |I Scream

scope="row" |"I Scream"

(SO-SO beatbox)

scope="row" |"Renegade VIP"

(SO-SO solo)

|2021

|ULTRA POWER

Concerts

= Co-headlining =

  • SARUKANI 1st Tour Live "#BKPK2022" (2022){{Cite web |title=SARUKANIのチケット情報 |url=https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/3550200001?P6=001&P1=0402&P59=1 |website=ePlus |language=ja}}

Filmography

= Television shows =

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!Year

!Program

!Network

!Roles

!Ref.

scope="row" |2021

|Sôkai jôhô variety Sukkiri

|Nippon TV

|Guest

|{{Cite web|date=2021-03-08|title=世界が熱狂 ヒューマンビートボクサー SO-SO (21)|url=https://www.ntv.co.jp/sukkiri/articles/1727mxqe7g00pwzn9ekr.html|website=Nippon TV|language=ja}}

= Musical theaters =

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!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

!Ref.

scope="row" |2019

|Koriyama Rhapsody

|Background sound

|Extras

|{{Cite web |date=2019-08-15 |title=松村武が大和郡山の文化もとに紡ぐ、3人の"ちよ"の物語「郡山ラプソディ」 |url=https://natalie.mu/stage/news/343752 |language=ja}}

References

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External links

  • {{YouTube|channel=UCtXKddsQv6rrJ7tUUpZz-og}}

Category:Japanese beatboxers

Category:Living people

Category:1999 births