Charles Burchell

Charles “BLVK Samurai” Burchell is a music producer, rapper, multi-instrumentalist, and educator from New Orleans, Louisiana. Burchell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For the last ten years, Burchell has performed nationally and internationally and given masterclasses at various universities around the world. Burchell has also taught and designed music programs at the K-12 level for various schools and institutions. Burchell has worked in cultural diplomacy for the last six years while also teaching music production programs at John Cabot University and Saint Louis College of Music. Burchell has performed and recorded with artists such as Talib Kweli, Jason Moran, Christian Scott, Braxton Cook, Omar Sosa, and many more. He has produced three albums with his band The Love Experiment and recently started a sample pack label, LEX Sounds, in partnership with the popular music production website Splice. Burchell has designed an online course on the Art of Hip Hop Production with music education platform Soundfly and writes music-related articles for Soundfly, Splice, and Roland.

Charles was on Next Level Team El Salvador and will be on Team Taiwan.

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