List of professional a cappella groups

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BASIX

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Basta

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The Blenders

The Blenders are a vocal quartet based in Minneapolis, Minnesota ....

Blue Jupiter

Blue Jupiter is an a cappella pop-funk singing group.Formed in Late 2001, Blue Jupiter is known for their delivery given in their live shows. Blue Jupiter sings covers and renditions of songs. Most of their songs are a cappella, but sometimes acoustic instruments have small and light...

The Bobs

The Bobs were dubbed the first new wave a cappella group in history when they were founded in San Francisco, California in the early 1980s. Now based in Seattle, Washington, this genre-bending, eccentric vocal group has maintained a healthy cult following in the U.S...

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Bjelleklang

Bjelleklang is a Norwegian a cappella vocal group, formed in 1986, who have released several albums. The band performs both song with only a cappella and songs with guitar or other unconventional music instruments like stir pans or pots...

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Cantus

Cantus (vocal ensemble)

Cantus is a nine-member male vocal a cappella ensemble based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.-Biography:Cantus is a full-time, professional vocal chamber ensemble, made up of nine men singing in a TTBB , changed male voice arrangement. The artists are self-led, with programming and musical direction...

Cappella Romana

Cappella Romana is a vocal ensemble founded in 1991 in Portland, Oregon. Its name, meaning "Roman Chapel", refers to the medieval Greek concept of the Roman oikoumene , which embraced Rome and Western Europe, as well as the Byzantine Empire of Constantinople and its Slavic commonwealth centered...

Chanticleer

Chanticleer (ensemble)

Based in San Francisco, California, Chanticleer is a full-time classical vocal ensemble in the United States. Over the last three decades, it has developed a major reputation for its interpretations of Renaissance music, but it also performs a wide repertoire of jazz, gospel, and other venturesome...

Chicago a cappella

Chicago a cappella (ensemble)

Based in Chicago, Illinois, Chicago a cappella is a classical vocal ensemble. The group is known for its performance of a wide range of musical styles, from medieval and Renaissance music to contemporary classical compositions, jazz, spirituals, and pop....

Cosmos

Cosmos (band)

Cosmos is a Latvian a cappella band that formed in Riga in 2002. Since its inception, the band has comprised singers Jānis Šipkēvics, Andris Sējāns , Juris Lisenko , Jānis Ozols , Jānis Strazdiņš and Reinis Sējāns .Cosmos gained national and international recognition after they were chosen to...

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Gas House Gang

Gas House Gang (quartet)

Gas House Gang was a barbershop quartet that won the 1993 SPEBSQSA international competition. They started singing as a group in 1987.The quartet won the International Quartet Championship of the Barbershop Harmony Society in 1993...

- disbanded in 2005 GLAD

Glad (band)

GLAD is one of the pioneers of Christian pop/rock and a cappella music, having formed as a progressive rock group in 1972 and discovered a large audience for their a cappella music in 1988. Today, with over 1.5 million albums sold, they continue to perform concerts and release occasional recordings...

The Gospellers

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The Magnets

The Magnets are a six piece British a cappella group, comprising Nicolas Doodson, Michael Welton, James Fortune, Andrew Frost, Stephen Trowell and Fraser Collins ....

Mahotella Queens

The Mahotella Queens are a South African singing group formed in 1964 comprising Hilda Tloubatla, Nobesuthu Mbadu and Mildred Mangxola...

The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...

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Monkey Puzzle (band)

Monkey Puzzle is an a cappella music group from Bloomington, Indiana which formed in the mid 1990s, releasing their first CD in 1995. In 1999 they won the award for "Best World/Folk Song" from The Contemporary A Cappella Society and their third CD was nominated by the same organization for Best...

Moosebutter

Moosebutter is a comedy a cappella group that started in Salt Lake City, UT, and has been based for most of its existence in Provo, Utah. The quartet has performed at venues spanning the United States, with most of their shows in the Rocky Mountain region, most notably Utah and Colorado...

Mosaic

Mosaic (vocal band)

is a five-man vocal band from the United States. An innovative vocal collaboration, Mosaic combines elements of funk, pop, rock, jazz, R&B, and even opera to create a musical experience produced entirely by the human voice.-Members:The five members of Mosaic are:...

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The Persuasions

The Persuasions are an a cappella group that began singing together in Brooklyn, New York in the mid 1960s. They have performed interpretations of both secular and non-secular music, and have covered a wide range of musical genres....

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Die Prinzen

Die Prinzen is a German music group. The band is made up of former members of the Thomanerchor and a former member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor.-Overview:Early albums consist of a cappella music...

The Puppini Sisters

The Puppini Sisters are a vocal trio. Arion Berger described them as part of "Retro's futuristic vanguard" and described their sound as "swing-punk". The group has sought to be associated with a burlesque revival....

Perpetuum Jazzile

Perpetuum Jazzile is a Slovenian choir that performs jazz and popular music. It was founded as Gaudeamus Chamber Choir in 1983 by Marko Tiran. In 2001, Tiran passed the art directorship of the choir to Tomaž Kozlevčar, the renowned music producer, arranger and vocalist, who was followed by Peder...

The Polyphonics

The Polyphonics Barbershop Chorus is a male, a cappella choir specialising in the barbershop style of choral singing. The choir is based in Carrigaline, a satellite town for Cork City and attracts members from Cork City and County....

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Rajaton

Rajaton is a Finnish a cappella ensemble, founded in Helsinki in 1997. The Finnish word rajaton means "boundless", to indicate the breadth of their repertoire, from sacred classical to near Europop...

The Real Group

The Real Group is a professional a cappella group from Sweden, consisting of five members: Emma Nilsdotter, Katarina Henryson, Anders Edenroth, Morten Vinther Sørensen, and Anders Jalkéus....

Rescue

Rescue (group)

Rescue is a Christian a cappella quartet of musical performers operating out of Gresham, OR. The group started as a quartet in 1996 consisting of Jason Overstreet, Jason McKenney, Chad Krober, and Matt Lusk and released their first album in 1999. Tim Storms, who set a Guinness World Record for...

Riltons Vänner

Riltons Vänner is a Swedish professional a cappella group. The group is based in Stockholm and was formed in 1999.The group has toured in Sweden as well as internationally.-Members:*Linnéa Rilton *Matilda Lindell...

Rockapella

Rockapella is an American a cappella musical group formed in 1986 in New York City. Their name is derived from the words "rock" and "a cappella". They sing original vocal music and a cappella covers of pop and rock songs; over time, their sound has evolved from high-energy pop and world music...

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Seminaarinmäen mieslaulajat (Semmarit)

Seminaarinmäen mieslaulajat

Seminaarinmäen mieslaulajat aka Semmarit is a male choir from Jyväskylä, Finland formed in 1989. The group extremely seldom performs traditional male choir music. They deliberately break the boundaries of choral music, and it is difficult to place their music in a specific genre. It is however...

SONO

SONO is a vocal group from Aarhus, Denmark singing rhythmic a cappella music. The group consists of 23 singers ranging in age from 20-35.-History:Founded in 1990 Jim Daus Hjernøe as Can't Help It, the name was changed to SONO in 2007...

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Spiralmouth

Spiralmouth is an a cappella group. The group is most famous for their original music for Vivendi Games's Crash Twinsanity. They also co-performed the soundtrack for Crash Tag Team Racing along with Marc Baril, and have a self-titled album featuring covers of songs by the Beatles, Sheryl Crow,...

Straight No Chaser

Straight No Chaser (a cappella group)

Straight No Chaser is the name of two related but separate a cappella men's singing groups. The Indiana University group is composed of 10 to 12 undergraduate men whose lineup changes every year. The professional group, known simply as Straight No Chaser, is composed of former members, mostly...

Streetnix

Streetnix was a Canadian a cappella group based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. They performed a total of over 2,500 shows across Canada and the United States, making over 300 appearances a year at their height....

Sweet Honey in the Rock

Sweet Honey in the Rock is an all-woman, African-American a cappella ensemble. They are an American Grammy Award-winning troupe who express their history as women of color through song, while entertaining their audience. They have together worked from four women to the difficult five-part harmony...

Swingle Singers

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Take 6

Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two...

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Toxic Audio

Toxic Audio is a five-person a cappella singing group from Orlando, Florida. They began with appearances at the Orlando International Fringe Festival in the late 1990s. Upon achieving frequent appearances at the Jazz Club in Pleasure Island at Walt Disney World Resort's Downtown Disney, their fame...

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TSZX

The Grace is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment in 2005. It consists of four members who sing, dance, and act. The quartet debuted in 2005....

TVXQ

TVXQ, an acronym for Tong Vfang Xien Qi , is a South Korean pop group formed in 2003 under SM Entertainment. In South Korea they are known as Dong Bang Shin Ki , often abbreviated by international fans as DBSK; they were later introduced in Japan as Tohoshinki under the Avex sub-label Rhythm Zone...

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Van Canto

Van Canto is an a cappella metal band from Germany, founded in 2006 and composed of five singers and a drummer. Although the group is often classified as an a cappella ensemble, they use real drums in their music, instead of vocal percussion or beatboxing....

Viva Voce

Viva voce

Viva voce is a Latin phrase literally meaning "with living voice," but most often translated as "by word of mouth."It may also refer to:*Italian for "live voice."*Voice vote in a deliberative assembly...

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Vocaldente

-History:vocaldente were founded in 2004 by five singers - Tobias "Tobek" Kiel , Johannes "Johnny" Gruber Niklas Turmann , Ansgar Pfeiffer , and Arndt Schmöle . The group primarily emerged from the Knabenchor Hannover and the Hanover University of Music and Drama...

The Vocal Majority

Vocal Majority

The Vocal Majority is a Dallas, Texas-based men's chorus of over 150 singers, billed as "America's Premier Pops Chorus." The VM is part of the Dallas Metro chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society...

Vocal Sampling

Vocal Sampling is an all-male a cappella musical group from Cuba. They are distinctive for their rich a cappella adaptations of traditional Cuban salsa music, son, and Rumba, such as their renditions of "El Cuarto de Tula" and "La Negra Tomasa", vocally imitating the piano, cowbell, conga, bass,...

Voces8

VOCES8 is an international award winning a cappella octet from the United Kingdom. Formed in 2005, Voces8 has a diverse repertoire ranging from early English and European Renaissance choral works, by e.g...

Voice Male

Voice Male is a six-man contemporary a cappella group based in Utah. The group performs covers of contemporary popular songs as well as traditional Latter-day Saint music and some original material. Voice Male formed at Utah State University in 1994 as a nine man group, Over the next two years...

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