Desible

Back in 2014, Anup and Mihir came across this random YouTube video about beatboxing. Nothing fancy, just a clip that got them hooked. They were teenagers, clueless about what they were getting into, but the vibe clicked. Every day after school, they’d run home, practice, and try to one-up each other with new sounds. It was simple. Fun. Pure passion. As they got better, they stumbled into Mumbai’s underground beatboxing scene. College battles became their hangout spots. That’s where they met Sonu and Shivali. None of them were thinking about starting a crew back then. It was just about showing up, vibing, and repping what they loved. Then COVID hit. No gigs. No battles. Just endless time at home. For most people, it was a dead end. For these four, it turned into something else. Through the Bombay Beatbox Community, they started hosting battles on Discord, keeping the scene alive when everything else felt stuck. Fast forward to when things opened up again—Anup and Mihir got a call from some reality TV show looking for a beatbox crew. It sounded huge, so they brought Sonu and Shivali on board. They were hyped, but the show wanted drama, a backstory that fit their script. Desible wasn’t their vibe. That night, crammed in a car at 1:30 AM, the four of them were beat. It could’ve been the end of it. But instead, one of them said, “Why let a TV show decide what we can be? Let’s just do this ourselves.” That’s when Desible became real—a crew with no gimmicks, just raw passion and a goal to take Indian beatboxing to the next level. Their first big win came at the Indian Beatbox Championship in 2023. Desible was officially the best crew in India. But they wanted more. They set their sights on the Grand Beatbox Battle (GBB), the biggest stage in the world. They sent in a wildcard entry, knowing they were pushing boundaries just by trying. In November 2023, they made it. Desible became the first Indian crew to hit the GBB stage.