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- This article is about the DJ. For the arcade and computer game, see Q*Bert.
Q-Bert (born 1969) is the performing name of Richard Quitevis, a Filipino-American (of Ilocano descent) DJ and music-writer. Living in San Francisco, he started playing with records at the age of 15 and was influenced by the street performers of San Francisco's hip-hop community in the mid 1980s.
He started his musical career in a group called FM20 with Mix Master Mike and Apollo in 1990. They were playing a show in New York when Crazy Legs saw them and invited them to join the Rock Steady Crew. They accepted, and going by the name of the Rock Steady DJ's they proceeded to take the 1992 Disco Mixing Club (DMC) world title. Q-Bert was also one of the founding members of the band Invisibl Skratch Piklz.
Q-Bert's solo efforts include 1994's Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik, often referred to as the greatest mixtape of all time, and 1998's Wave Twisters. The latter album was created mainly with samplers and beat machines versus the turntable, and later turned into an animated feature of the same title. Wave Twisters (2001) the movie was somewhat unusual in that the animators and digital artists had to invent images and movements to the pre-recorded music, as opposed to the other way around.
His music was also featured in the video games Tony Hawk's Underground and FreQuency.
Awards and credentials
- DMC USA Champion 1991
- DMC World Champion 1992
- DMC World Champion 1993
- DMC World Champion 1994
- DMC Judge 1995
- DMC DJ Hall of Fame (along with Mix Master Mike)
- Acted in Hang the DJ
- Cannes Film Festival, France
- Acted in Modulations
- Sundance Festival, Colorado
- Appeared in the documentary 'Scratch'
See also
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1969 births | Living people | Filipino Americans | Hip hop DJs
"DJ Q-bert"