{{Short description|British beatboxer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use British English|date=February 2015}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|music|date=July 2020}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2020}} {{BLP primary sources|date=January 2008}}}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = THePETEBOX | birth_name = Peter Sampson | image = The Pete Box, Mayors Thames Festival 2008.jpg | caption = THePETEBOX at Mayor's Thames Festival 2008 | image_size = | background = solo_singer | origin = Nottingham, England | instrument = | genre = Beatbox, hip hop | occupation = | years_active = 2004&ndash;present | label = Izumi Records, Imoto Records | past_member_of = Swimming, WeShowUpOnRadar | website = [http://www.thepetebox.com www.thepetebox.com] }}

'''Peter Sampson''', known professionally as '''THePETEBOX''', is a live looping human beatbox artist from the UK. He was crowned the BBC Radio 1 beatbox champion in 2005.{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}}

==Career== THePETEBOX uses a loop pedal to create songs using his vocal and beatboxing ability. He won the 2005 BBC Radio 1 Beatbox Championships, and was named as a winner of the year's Channel 4 Talent Awards.

THePETEBOX has toured around the UK, Africa, France, Norway, Czech Republic, and appeared at Isle of Wight, Bestival, V, Leeds, Reading, Latitude, Creamfields and Glastonbury festivals.

In 2007, THePETEBOX featured in a TV advert for Movistar mobile phones.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQXH3y3_EQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/1kQXH3y3_EQ |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Beatbox Movistar THePETEBOX|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=2020-07-10}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The advert aired in March 2007 in Mexico and will be shown in Panama and Guatemala later in the year. THePETEBOX was also a member of the bands Swimming and WeShowUpOnRadar.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spend a little time to browse our new site at leisure|url=http://www.weshowuponradar.com/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605042516/http://www.weshowuponradar.com/|archive-date=June 5, 2007|access-date=May 23, 2021|website=www.weshowuponradar.com}}</ref>

THePETEBOX appeared in the UK and US television coverage of the 2009 World Free Running Championships on 15 August.

Other TV appearances include ITV's ''Skillicious'' in 2009, and ITV's ''Odd One In'' in 2010. The same year, he toured twice with the dance group Diversity.

THePETEBOX released his debut album ''Future Loops'' on 11 April 2012. It is a live, studio album - each track is performed, mixed, effected and recorded live in a studio environment to a stereo mix. This process is filmed, creating a live performance video of the recordings themselves.

In 2023, THePETEBOX participated on the twelfth series of ''The Voice UK'' on Team will.i.am and finished as a semi-finalist.

==Discography== *''Future Loops'' (2012) *''Live to Tape 001'' (2013) *''Songs from the Vaults'' (2017) *''The Strings'' (2018) *''Use The Fire'' (2018)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.thepetebox.com|THePETEBOX official website}} * [http://www.myspace.com/thepetebox THePETEBOX] on MySpace * THePETEBOX [https://www.youtube.com/c/thepetebox on YouTube]

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