Butterscotch Clinton: Empowerment Speaker
Empowerment speaker and vocal percussionist Butterscotch Clinton inspires audiences through genre-defying music, resilience, and identity-driven storytelling that challenges norms and elevates human connection.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- World’s first female beatbox champion
- Finalist on America’s Got Talent with global audience reach
- Performs a unique fusion of singing, beatboxing, and live instrumentation
- International touring artist and major jazz festival performer
- Formats: Empowerment speaker, vocal percussionist, and live musical performer
- Audiences: Corporate audiences, conferences, educational institutions, creative organizations, and events focused on diversity, resilience, and empowerment
- Outcomes:
- Renewed perspective on identity, courage, and self-expression
- Emotional engagement through music-driven storytelling
- Inspiration to challenge limits and embrace authenticity
- Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Butterscotch’s Story
Butterscotch shares an inspiring story of perseverance and determination, with undertones of overcoming overt biases and emotional tax to provide courage and motivation to participants.
Talent Short Bio
Butterscotch Clinton is a world-renowned vocal percussionist, musician, and empowerment speaker who uses her voice to challenge gender norms, social constructs, and expectations in music and leadership. She began her career in the underground, male-dominated beatbox battle scene, where she made history as the world’s first female beatbox champion.
Her career reached a global audience after a breakout performance on America’s Got Talent, where she placed third, gaining international recognition and launching a prolific touring and recording career. Butterscotch is known for her trifecta performance style, seamlessly blending singing, beatboxing, and live instrumentation on piano or guitar, often layered through a loop station to create a full-band experience with her voice.
Drawing inspiration from Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul, and Reggae, her sound evokes comparisons to Billie Holiday and Lauryn Hill. Her music and speaking openly explore themes of identity, mental health, love, and resilience, reflecting her lived experience as a biracial queer woman of color. Beyond performance, she is deeply committed to service, using music as a tool for empowerment, education, and healing.
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Butterscotch Clinton, the vocal percussionist virtuosa, uses her powerful voice to defy gender and music social constructs. She began her career in the underground male-dominated beatbox battle scene, where she was crowned the world’s first female beatbox champion.
Soon thereafter, a breakthrough performance on America’s Got Talent lead her to place third on the hit TV show. The exposure on national TV gained her thousands of fans and kickstarted a prolific career.
Butterscotch blends Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul and Reggae and her shows are emotionally and physically invigorating with her trifecta fusion of singing, beatboxing, and playing either piano or guitar simultaneously, or creating endless layers on her loop station.
With a voice reminiscent of Billie Holiday and rap verses comparable to Lauryn Hill, Butterscotch Clinton courageously sings about her love life, depression, and daily struggles of being a biracial queer woman of color. Her philanthropic mission is to empower and elevate people through music and compassion.
She has toured the world and has performed at the most prestigious jazz festivals in Europe such as the Montreux Jazz Festival, Baloise Session, Leverkusener Jazztage, Ingolsadter Jazztage, as well as in Asia at the Hong Kong Jazz Festival, Jarasum Festival in Korea, and Java Jazz Festival in Indonesia. Butterscotch has opened for Marshmello, Russ, Erykah Badu, Earth, Wind & Fire, Thievery Corporation, Sergio Mendes, Wyclef Jean and other musical legends.
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