For every major performance, UCLA’s all-female Random Voices A Capella chooses one encompassing word to focus its energy on. As the group prepares to cover an unrevealed song by the iconic Madonna for this year’s Spring Sing, its current word seems fitting: “passion.” “Random Voices has one of the lowest ranges I’ve heard in terms […]
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Spring Sing Profile: The Street Hearts
Walking into The Street Hearts’ rehearsal, it is clear that the five musicians are comfortable with one other. They complete one other’s sentences, comfortably sway together in time and tease one other. In preparing for its upcoming Spring Sing performance on Friday the folk-soul band is working to bring that intimacy to all aspects of […]
Spring Sing Profile: We the Folk
We the Folk has a simply worded question for its audience, from a heartbroken man and his loyal friends: “Won’t You Come Back?” We the Folk will perform the song “Won’t You Come Back?” Friday at this year’s Spring Sing. With both urban and East European Gypsy sounds, the song will feature fourth-year ethnomusicology and […]
Spring Sing: The Primaries
Full of funky sounds and musicians, 10-piece R&B; and soul collective The Primaries have been preparing for their Spring Sing debut Friday. The band members say they are ready, due to their evolution in the last year. The group has added more members, including third-year jazz studies student Joe Kwon, who has changed the band’s […]
Spring Sing Profile: The AM
Momentarily stepping aside from a dinner during a vacation in Lake George, N.Y., Bryan Welch, The AM’s vocalist and rhythm guitarist, listened to a recording his bandmate had sent him earlier that day. The recording, which would become the band’s Spring Sing song, ended with “You get the idea” – and Welch did. “It’s the […]
Spring Sing Profile: Alex Liu and Eric Jung
The first time Alex Liu and Eric Jung met was during a desperate scramble to fill empty spaces in a production roster. As a second-year student, Liu realized his fraternity’s 2011 Spring Sing production was lacking musicians and reached out to Jung, then a first-year, through recommendations by friends and fraternity brothers. Three Spring Sings […]
Spring Sing Profile: Courtney Randall and Beat Rhino
Courtney Randall dreamed about singing at Spring Sing before she’d even been accepted to UCLA. In 2011, her dream came true. Randall, a first-year at the time, took home the award for best overall entry and the honor of best solo artist the following year. Her 2014 performance will bring together two styles of music […]