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Meet The First Nigerian To Win Grammy by Samneer: 4:50pm On Feb 10, 2015
Kevin Olusola was born in Pasadena, California to Nigerian-born Oluwole Olusola, a psychiatrist, and Grenadian-born Curline Paul, a nurse. He is the beatbox of the popular acapella group- Pentatonix. Kevin is skilled in playing cello
Kevin "K.O." Olusola (born October 5, 1988) is an American cellist, beatboxer , saxophonist , songwriter, producer, and singer . Olusola is best known as the beatboxer of the widely acclaimed vocal band Pentatonix.

At Yale, Olusola planned to pursue medicine and finished all his pre-med requirements. He 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 Yalies. He lived in Beijing for 6 months through a PKU-Yale joint program during his sophomore year, and then took a leave of absence during the 2009-2010 academic school year on Yale’s Light Fellowship to study intensive Chinese at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study in Beijing. In school, 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 . He graduated from Yale in 2011.
On February 8, 2015, Pentatonix won a Grammy in the "Best Arrangement, Instrumental or acappella " category for their work with Daft Punk.

Re: Meet The First Nigerian To Win Grammy by kestolove95(m): 5:05pm On Feb 10, 2015
Yorubas ar making nigeria proud worldwide while igbo's ar busy pushing drugs and givn d country bad name
Re: Meet The First Nigerian To Win Grammy by Samneer: 5:14pm On Feb 10, 2015
Kevin high in spirit

The team; Mitch, Scot Hoying, Avi Kaplan, Christie and Kevin

Re: Meet The First Nigerian To Win Grammy by Nobody: 5:22pm On Feb 10, 2015
cool shit

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