Jason Tom

Jason Tom (born November 21, 1982) is an American musician, math teacher, blogger, performance poet, and motivational speaker known for beatboxing in music, dance, and poetry slams. As the founder of the Human Beatbox Academy, he does outreach with performances, workshops and events for people of all ages. Tom has toured China and collaborated with groups such as Hawaii Meth Project and Music with a Message. His Hawaii beatbox class at the Art Smith was included in "Our Favorite Things" in the April 2012 issue of Hawaii Business Magazine. Tom has opened for Michael Winslow, Jabbawockeez, and Quest Crew. He also is a part of the newly formed Hawaii Hip-Hop Collective.

In 2006, Jason completed the Freeman Foundation intensive Chinese scholarship program at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He earned his spot on the University of Hawaiʻi at Kapiʻolani Dean's List from 2006 to 2007.

Jason graduated from Kapiʻolani Community College as a Phi Theta Kappa honor student in 2007. At KCC, he was a supplemental instructor in mathematics with a concentration in algebra. His Voice I professor at KCC, Lina Doo, introduced him to Tuvan throat singing and he incorporated it into his beatboxing after Doo encouraged him to watch Genghis Blues.

His higher education musical peers included American Idol's Jordan Segundo, Kalei Gamiao, and John Tussey, and he attended the first MELE Songwriters Workshop in 2009. Tom and Yelp Hawaii manager Emi Hart joined Adam Watts' songwriter workshop, and he composed "Listen Carefully (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)".

Tom was voted the Best Hawaii Musician Deserving of a Wider Audience by Honolulu Weekly in 2009. He represented Hawaii at the sixth international Human Beatbox Convention and the first American Beatbox Championship in Brooklyn.

On November 5, 2009, Tom was a presenter at the first TEDx Honolulu conference at the Hawaii Convention Center with Neil Blecherman, Jill Buck, Henk Rogers and Kaiser Kuo. In an interviewed with former Hawaii TV news reporter Angela, he said: "Successful people fail more". Tom also spoke at the TEDx Honolulu conference on November 1, 2011. TEDx Honolulu: It's About Time was hosted by Ka'ala Souza at the Honolulu Design Center's Cupolo Theatre.

He joined the Say Yes To Purpose tour with Diverse Art and the Academy of Hype and performed on the Music with a Message tour, visiting middle and high schools throughout Hawaii. Tom appeared in the film American Beatboxer, which documented the 2010 International Human Beatbox Convention (Boxcon) and American Beatbox Championship in Brooklyn which were organized by Humanbeatbox.com and the World Beatbox Association (WBA).

Tom's T-shirt release party in Honolulu featured a collaboration of beatbox, locking, popping, and b-boying with Skillroy and Andy Tran. The shirt was hand-drawn by Hawaii artist JKS. He appeared on "I'm Movin' On" on Faioso's 2010 debut album, Nobody Owns Me.