Galush Beatboxer, Educator, Music Producer

Competition Highlights:

• 3x Vice Champion in Loopstation at the American Beatbox Championships ('18, '19, '22)
• 2nd Place Wildcard for Online World Beatbox Championships (Above)
• Champion, Lion Loopstation Battle (South Africa)
• Champion, 2021 CLIP Server 7tS 2
• Champion, 2020 Beatbox Games Tournament
• Champion, 2020 CLIP Server 7tS
• 2x Vice Champion in Loopstation at the American Beatbox Championships ('18, '19)
• 1st ranked video entry for the 2019 ABCs Solo Wildcard

Korra "Galush" Galusha is a 2020 Graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine where they double-majored in Music and Gender/Women's Studies. They taught music with the Achievement First charter school network in New Haven, CT from August 2020 through the end of 2021, and now supports an active roster of independent students in beatboxing, looping, singing, songwriting, and digital production.

Galush specializes in live creation of full tracks via beatboxing and vocal looping. Taking inspiration from the Beatboxing and Hip-Hop community, they compete internationally as a solo and loopstation beatboxer, working to advance the horizon of the capabilities of the human voice. Combined with their passions for education and social justice, Galush is an active advocate for inclusive spaces and event design within the beatboxing and broader hip hop communities.

Galush is the recipient of both the Sue Winchell Burnett Music Prize (awarded to the member of the senior class who has majored in music and has made the most significant contribution to music while a student at Bowdoin College) and the Mary Hunter Prize for Student Achievement in Writing about Music in a Social/Historical Context.

Additional Awards/Recognition:

• 2019 Peter J. Grua and Mary G. O'Connell Research Award Recipient
• Waterson Fellowship in the Creative Arts from Bowdoin College
• 6-Time Grua/O’Connell Research Mini-Grant Recipient
• Co-Presenter at the National Association of Music Educators Conference
• Co-Presenter at the New Jersey State Association of Music Educators Conference

Whether performing in front of an audience or bebopping and scatting between classes, Korra Galusha (Bowdoin College ’20)—Galush, as they're known on stage—moves to a beat. More than singing—they are also a classically trained alumnus of the Meddiebempsters barbershop a cappella group—Galush turns the voice into an actual instrument in a sonic art form called beatboxing. More than producing and performing from home in New England, music has taken them all over the world.

In 2018 Galush received a Watterson Summer Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts that allowed them to travel to Germany and Poland for the World Beatboxing Championships in Berlin and to spend time in the studio as well as conduct ethnomusicological research. In February 2019, 2023 and 2024 they co-presented Integrating Beatboxing into the Classroom at the New Jersey State Association of Music Educators Conference and the 2019 National Association of Music Educators Conference in Pittsburgh.

In the summer of 2019, thanks to a Bowdoin Career Exploration and Development-funded internship, they worked as a production assistant at American Beatbox in New York City, the organization that hosts the American Beatbox Championships.