Kid Beyond

Kid Beyond performed at the inaugural w00tstock shows at the Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, California on October 19 and 20, 2009.

While opening for Buckethead in San Francisco on February 15, 2008, Kid Beyond mentioned recording vocals for "Free Bird" and other songs for Guitar Hero II.

Kid Beyond has toured nationally with Imogen Heap. He has also performed at major music festivals, including sets at Burning Man atop a Unimog, the Langerado festival, the 2007 Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival, and Coachella.

He released his first solo EP, Amplivate, in 2006.

As Andrew Chaikin, he has performed as a voice-over artist for a number of video games and advertisements, prominently in American McGee's Alice as The Mad Hatter/The White Rabbit/The March Hare, and in the 2005 game Star Wars: Republic Commando, where he does the voices of Clone Advisor and Delta 40 "Fixer".

In 2004, Kid Beyond made a cameo appearance as an actor in the music video Maximum Wage, which featured music he co-created with Andrew Bancroft.

He voiced Dio Brando in the 2004 English dub of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OVA.

Chaikin attended Brown University and was a leader in the co-ed fraternity Zeta Delta Xi. He sang in the Jabberwocks, a student a cappella group. He graduated in 1991 and moved to San Francisco to join the House Jacks with Deke Sharon, recording "Naked Noise" and "Funkwich" with the band (the latter for Tommy Boy Records).

Kid Beyond (real name Andrew Chaikin) (December 7, 1969) is an American singer, beatboxer, songwriter, live looper and voice actor, based in the San Francisco area.