Beatboxing specialist, performer, and producer Luke "Skippy" Harbur is a vivacious artist known for his cross-pollinated brand of alternative music touching on hip hop, Broadway, EDM, and singer-songwriter influences. His project musicbyskippy lives among music, theater, and poetry; shows are similar to attending live comedy and musicals, focusing on identity and community building. They are different live experiences all built for multigenerational audiences.
The Overland Park, Kansas native is based out of Kansas City, Missouri, developing songwriting, beatboxing, singing, beat production, rapping, & looping skills to express his mission: performances promote safe havens for authenticity. Since November 2021 he’s written, produced, and published over 40 songs and sold over 1,000 tickets to eight original productions. He is a 2024 Librettist Fellow for Lyric Opera of Kansas City & No Divide KC, writing an operetta alongside a composer, as well as a 2024 Heartland Arts Fellow for Starlight Theatre & Heartland Arts KC, writing scenes and lyrics about restorative justice alongside seven other artists. Other client commissions include music festival Boulevardia, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, and Quixotic.
Each opportunity to perform is rooted in a deeper story. At 5 months he was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare liver disease. 6 months later he received a life-saving liver transplant from an 8-year-old boy named Aaron Drake, who passed away while on a camping trip with his family at The Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. Harbur’s motivation is driven by his second chance to make performances a testament to sharing life and near-death experiences.
Connect with Skippy
https://www.musicbyskippy.com/
https://www.instagram.com/musicbyskippy
https://www.facebook.com/musicbyskippy/
https://www.youtube.com/@musicbyskippy
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