Soce, the elemental wizard

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Name = Soce, the elemental wizard


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Andrew Singer
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Origin = New York City
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Genre = Hip hop, Homo hop
Occupation = rapper and producer
Years_active = 2003-present
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URL = [http://www.greathiphop.com www.GreatHipHop.com]
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Notable_instruments = violin, piano, guitar and bass

Soce, the elemental wizard (born Andrew Singer) is a New York City-based rapper and producer and one of the rap scene’s few openly gay MCs.

About Soce

In addition to rapping onstage, Soce plays the violin, piano, guitar and bass. During his performances, he typically dons a wizard’s cap.cite news |last=Breindel |first=Marc |title=Gay Jewish rapper keepin' it real |publisher=Gay.Com |date=30 November 2005 |url=http://zoom.gay.com/viewArticle.do?id=458&categoryId=&subCategoryId=&microCategoryId=&selectedRegionId=7]

Soce is a graduate of Yale Universitycite news |last=Radner |first=Ronni |title=Magic Man |publisher=Out Magazine |date=October 2005 |url=http://www.socetew.com/out.htm] and Phillips Exeter Academy. He is Jewish.cite news |last=Shinefield |first=Mordechai |title=White. Gay. Jewish. Rapper? |publisher=The Jewish Daily Forward |date=12 August 2005|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/2571/]

Music

Videos and Flash Featurettes

As well as comedy videos, Soce currently has four flash featurettes: Sad and Lonely, RPG Interlude, Internet Treasure Quest and The Shortest Adventure Game You'll Ever Play. Sad and Lonely has been screened at film festivals in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Florida and Brazil, and Soce floats has been screened in at a festival in LA.A music video for "I am(so gay)" directed by Liam Ahern has recently begun circulating the web.

Appearances

Soce recently completed a US tour as well, where he did shows in Chicago, Indianapolis, Iowa City, Dubuque, Minneapolis, Mountain View, San Diego and Los Angeles. He also recently appeared on MTV, VH1, here!,cite news |last=Hollenbach |first=Shawn |title=Busted |publisher=Here TV |date=August 8, 2008 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQh7sVzlPQ] Logo, WNYC,cite news |last=Schaefer |first=John |title=Soundcheck |publisher=WNYC |date=December 16, 2006 |url=http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2006/12/15] and Sirius Satellite Radio, (Howard Stern, OutQ, Raw Dog Comedy and Shade 45).

He produces music for many other performers, including the track "Lick It" by God-des and She, which they performed live on the season finale of "The L Word" and produced "The Whole World" by MF Grimm--which appears on Grimm's new album "American Hunger" in addition to "Sick" by QBoy, which also features soce contributing a guest verse. He also produced the music for the music video "Hold Tight" by Rob Cantrell.

Bigg Nugg released a CD single and a music video of his collaboration with Soce, entitled "I Remember".

In 2007, Soce co-hosted NYC's gay pride parade, along with fellow gay artist Sandra Grace. Soce and Sandra will be co-hosting the gay pride parade again in 2008.cite news |title=New York City's Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Pride March 2008 |publisher=Heritage of Pride |date=June, 2008 |url=http://www.nycpride.org/pdf/Finalized%20Order%20of%20March%202008.pdf]

In 2008, Soce competed in the Sirius Shade 45 gay hip hop competition and won by audience vote.cite news |last=Yee |first=Angela |title=The Gayest Rap Show Ever |publisher=Sirius Shade 45 |date=August 8, 2008 |url=http://www.outhiphop.net/TheGayestRapperShowEver.mp3]

Discography

* "Dream de la Dream" 2003
* "I'm in My Own World" 2004
* "The Lemonade Incident" 2005

"Master of Fine Arts"

Soce's upcoming album, "Master of Fine Arts"cite news |last=Feinman |first=Jeff|title=Hip-hop Wizardry Meets Mad Computer Skills |publisher=SDTimes |date=September 1, 2008 |url=http://www.sdtimes.com/SearchResult/32757] , will be coming out in 2008, and will feature a mix of gay and straight rappers and singers as special guests, including Deadlee, Tori Fixx, Elena Azzoni (Miss Lez 2007), Jon Berger, Fresh Daily, Paul Bauer, Julian Yeo and Amnesia Sparkles.

References

External links

* [http://www.greathiphop.com official website]
* [http://www.cindycenter.com/soce Podcast interview with soce]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysgsf1D6mYY "I am(so gay)" music video]