Take 6, the
most awarded a cappella vocal group in history with 10 Grammy Awards, 10 Dove
Awards, a Soul Train Award, and 7 Downbeat Awards has signed with SoNo
Recording Group to deliver a new album in 2016. Producing the album will be
Ross Vannelli, Vice President of A&R for the label. SRG will distribute the
album internationally through its affiliated partners ILS Group and Universal
Music Group.
The new
album will be released in the spring of 2016 with the first single issued by
the end of the year. Fans of the group can look forward to a contemporary
record of exciting new material with every hallmark of the classic Take 6
sound. Songs for the record are being contributed by a diverse group of
songwriters.
Claude
Villiani, SoNo Recording Group, President and Founder: "We are proud to
welcome Take 6 to the SRG family. We have a magnificent team starting with the
members of Take 6 themselves, their management team Ed Keane Associates, our
distributors ILS Group headed by Dominique Zgarka, and Universal Music Group.
Of course we have Ross Vannelli and his unparalleled writing team. We look
forward to delivering an outstanding record."
Take 6
(Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and
Khristian Dentley), has been heralded by none other than Quincy Jones as
the"baddest vocal cats on the planet!” Their uniquely cutting-edge style
is comprised of six virtuosic voices united in crystal clear harmony, against a
backdrop of syncopated rhythms, innovative arrangements, and funky grooves. All
of this bubbles into an intoxicating brew of gospel, jazz, R&B, and pop.
Take 6 are quintessential a cappella.
The group,
considered torchbearers for an entire reemergence of a cappella as a musical
movement, has been performing together since their days at Oakwood College in
Huntsville, Alabama in 1980. Their debut album scored two 1988 Grammy Awards
and landed in the Top Ten Billboard Contemporary Jazz and Contemporary
Christian Charts.
27 years
later, the most talked-about vocal group of all time, Take 6 is in greater
demand than ever, selling out shows all over the world. They have performed on
Saturday Night Live, the Oscars, the Grammys, had the honor of performing for
four sitting U.S. Presidents, and appeared at the Democratic National
Convention. The group, which has inspired and been a founding influence to a
generation of recording artists including Boys to Men and 'N Sync, has
collaborated with a who’s who of artists – including Stevie Wonder, Gordon
Goodwin, Don Henley, Whitney Houston, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, kd lang, Queen
Latifah, Brian McKnight, Luis Miguel, Marcus Millier, Joe Sample, Ben Tankard
and Cece Winans.
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