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Adam Yauch, better known as MCA, is a founder member of hip-hop trio Beastie Boys. As well as rapping, he plays bass guitar. Yauch was born to wealthy parents in New York on August 5, 1965.

Although his parents were Jewish, Yauch is himself a Buddhist and is actively involved with the Free Tibet movement, an organisation created to show solidarity with the plight of the Dalai Lama and to put pressure on the Chinese government to respect human rights in Tibet. Funds for the cause were also generated from the royalties to Buddhist-inspired Beasties tracks like Bodhisattva Vow .In 1996 Yauch helped organize the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco, California.

Under the pseudonymA pseudonym or allonym is a name (sometimes legally adopted, sometimes purely fictitious) used by an individual as an alternative to their birth name. Pseudonyms in print When used by authors, a pseudonym is also called a pen name or (in French) nom de pl Nathaniel Hornblower Yauch has also been responsible for many of the Beastie Boys' videosA music video (also video clip promo is a short film meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. The TV station MTV ("Music Television" launched in 1981), originated the format of end-to-end music video programming without any conven.


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