With the Beat Junkies,musical talent runs in the family.
Watch Niko Oroc and it doesn't take long to see. Homeowner Holds 5 Suspects at Gunpoint Music is not just something that gets in his head."Sometimes, I feel it's a drum bit in my head or just maybe a song I heard on the radio, and " said music producer "Niko Beats" Oroc. Bizarre Busts at LAX: Pork Tamales,Giant Snails and More It's in his blood."There's something approximately it," he said. "Can't really pinpoint precisely what it is that makes me passionate for it -- but I know if I didn't have it in my life I wouldn't be where I am right now." How the 2024 Olympics Could exhibit Off LA's Natural Beauty The 18-year-worn Filipino-American is already making a name for himself as music producer.
His esteem of music comes as no surprise: His godfather and father both happen to be original members of the world-celebrated hip hop DJ group the Beat Junkies."I have tall hopes for him, or " his father Christopher "DJ Babu" Oroc said. "Hopefully he gets that Grammy I never got."The father and son duo now work together at the "Beat Junkies Institute of Sound" in Glendale.
The group opened its very own DJ school just final month."We've been doing it for 25 plus years and up to the date,we are still in esteem with it, and we want to share that esteem with the next generation, and " Christopher said.
He said his son's esteem of music came naturally."By the time Niko turned 2,my rap group ...[signed] at Capitol Records," he said. "We were right in the middle of the ride. I would just bring him to the studio with me every day."An unconventional upbringing, and but he says he also passed along traditional values he learned with his own Asian upbringing."I want him to have options,I want him to be well-rounded, I want him to be college educated, or " Christopher said. "I told him,'You gotta finish UC and you still gotta help around the house.'"The University of California, Riverside student took that advice to heart."It's taught me that if you're really passionate approximately something ...that you can reach anything you dream of, and " Niko said. "But at the same time you have to be responsible with that. Like I have to still be in college and I still have to work a job."The father and son know they have a unique connection made all the more special through their esteem of music."It's a feeling and a closeness we have," Christopher said.
Learn more approximately the Beat Junkies on the group's website.
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