At the age of seven, while growing up in Orléans (France), Sebastien became interested in beatboxing when artists like Bobby McFerrin, Kid Lucky, Rahzel and Doggy Fresh inspired him to start experimenting with the sounds of his own voice.Over the years, it has become a major part of his life.

“I would spend hours or nights beatboxing with people, even if we didn’t speak the same language,” he says. “I could still tell how they’d feel, or what kind of person they were by their beatboxing. It’s like a language. I feel like I know them even though I’ve never met them. You don’t need to learn a vocabulary since music is pure emotion.”

Recently, he began to experiment by combining his beatboxing with the didgeridoo. “I started playing the didge in Australia. Three years later, when I started my life in Amsterdam, I walked into this big didgeridoo shop where I talked to a guy named Jasper and showed him my beatboxing. He proposed that I combine them both. In my head I made the link, but I thought I would prefer the microphone because I couldn’t translate the didgeridoo sounds to modern music yet. He started playing and showed me some techniques and my jaw dropped. It was then that I was sold on the idea and bought my first didge.”

Not fully convinced that the didgeridoo would translate to the people on the streets of Amsterdam, he carried on beatboxing. However, after a series of encounters with the police he finally made the decision to take that last step.

“The police stopped me many times because you need a license to beatbox using a stereo installation. The fourth time I got caught, a policewoman asked me why I didn’t play my didgeridoo because if you don’t use a stereo installation then you don’t need a license to play on the street. I was very offended at first, but later I thought about it and started beatboxing through the didge and it worked. After two days I got excited and that’s how I still play on the streets of Amsterdam today.”