Wheelchair Sports Camp

Location: Denver, CO

Challenge: Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Website: wheelchairsportscamp.co

Fronted by the wheelchair bound MC/beat-maker/activist/educator/shit-talker Kalyn, the band is a combination of live and electronic instruments with a more jazzy, noisey, funky, combination to the traditional hip-hop group.

Their unconventional setup of live instruments and Kalyn's produced beats presents a polished sound with old-school lyrics that maintain a sarcastic yet independent and heavy consciousness. Kalyn is 27 years old, weighs 53 pounds and measures three feet, six inches tall.

Wheelchair Sports Camp consists of Kalyn (MC/beats) Gregg Ziemba (live drums) Joshua Trinidad (trumpet) special guests: Ikey Owens (producer), Rubedo (band), Mike Brown (bass), Qknox (beats), Felix Fast4Ward (vocals), Everai (MC/DJ), Abi (sax/vocals), DJ B*Money, & many more.

She’s light enough to carry, compact enough to hide under a winter coat and is sometimes mistaken for a child. But Kalyn, who has the brittle-bone disability osteogenesis imperfecta, is hardly innocent, precious, or inconspicuous. The band has been featured on the cover of the Village Voice as well as in SPIN Magazine, Huffington Post, High Times Magazine and more.

The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from California to her hometown and was invited to attend and corrupt the 14th annual week-long Colorado Jr. Wheelchair Sports Camp. The band tours the states and beyond from their home in Denver.

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