Matt Kent, a musician in NYC is blowing up on TikTok for his remixes of iconic classical music pieces. He's already a professional singer and musician in the Big Apple, but his new found talent is what's making him go viral.
The artist has remade about 30 pieces already of classic music into banging pop songs. And not just catchy tunes that you'd tap your foot to and then move on with your life. Kent is turning epic orchestral music into killer beats and melodies—songs you would definitely dance to in the club. Plus, he even adds his own lyrics that are definitely on par with the top 40 pop songs of today. We're talking famous pieces by pioneering classical musicians like Bach, Beethoven, and even Mozart. As a musician himself, he's able to produce these songs to sound completely different, while also respecting the artist's original piece.
Carl Orff “O Furtuna-Carmina Burana”
His viewers are obsessed and are constantly requesting new classical pieces for Kent to turn into pop songs. Now, classical lovers can hear their favorite pieces in the club and get down to it with everybody else. His viewers are also demanding that he record longer version and release them as an album on some sort of streaming platform so they can listened to them all the time in their playlists.
Don Rossini “The Barber of Seville”
Mozart “Lacrimosa”
Bach “Violin Partit II, Gigue (D minor)”
In fact, fans of his can rejoice, because he is currently working on a full version of his remake of Mozart's “Lacrimosa"—you can even pre-save it here. Kent also posts original music of his own on his TikTok and is definitely gathering a new fandom through his viralness on TikTok.