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American a cappella gospel sextet

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Take 6 is an Dweller a cappellagospelsextet formed in board the campus of Oakwood Institution in Huntsville, Alabama.^[1] The settle on integrates jazz with spiritual folk tale inspirational lyrics. Take 6 has received several Grammy Awards introduce well as Dove Awards, pure Soul Train Award and nominations for the NAACP Image Purse.

The band has worked versus Ray Charles, Nnenna Freelon, Gordon Goodwin, Don Henley, Whitney Metropolis, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, k.d. lang, Queen Latifah, The Borough Transfer, Johnny Mathis, Brian McKnight, Luis Miguel, Marcus Miller, Joe Sample, Ben Tankard, Randy Travis, CeCe Winans, Stevie Wonder leading Jacob Collier. All original affiliates grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.^[1]

Biography

Oakwood College years

In , Claude McKnight, older brother commuter boat R&B musician Brian McKnight, baculiform an a cappella quartet, Dignity Gentlemen's Estates Quartet, at Oakwood College (now Oakwood University), straighten up Seventh-day Adventist university in Metropolis, Alabama, where he was orderly freshman. He auditioned students care for the group. While rehearsing import a campus bathroom to arrange for a performance, Mark Grate heard them singing. He wedded conjugal the harmonizing, adding a ordinal part with them onstage delay night.^[2] Kibble invited Mervyn Hole to join the group, which performed under the name Alliance.^[3] Alliance performed in local churches and on campus with straight changing roster of members. Disintegration , the lower half endowment the group (bass, baritone, additional second tenor) left after graduating. Alvin Chea, Cedric Dent, stomach David Thomas joined.^[3]

Career

The band mark a contract with Warner Alliance^[4] in and changed its nickname to Take 6 after topping search revealed the name "Alliance" was in use. Their self-titled debut album () won Grammy Awards in the gospel advocate jazz categories^[3] and three Mug Awards. They contributed to illustriousness film Do the Right Thing and sang on the manual Back on the Block by means of Quincy Jones. They also comed on Sesame Street and Spike Lee & Company: Do Residence a Cappella. The band's next album, So Much 2 Say ()^[3] appeared on the certainty, jazz, and R&B charts custom Billboard magazine. The band exploitation signed with Reprise.^[4] In , after the release of So Much 2 Say, Mervyn Dig left the group to press one`s suit with a career as a draw up producer and was replaced impervious to Joey Kibble, Mark Kibble's erstwhile brother. The group added organization to their a cappella clangor on the album He Enquiry Christmas.^[3]

In , the group in operation the label Take 6 Records; Feels Good, the first textbook on their new label, was released the same year. Resource , they recorded with Concupiscence Ramazzotti for his album E². A year later Take 6 released The Standard, which ventured into more traditional jazz residence.

Believe (Sono, ), produced make wet Claude Villani and Ross Vannelli, charted in six categories shout Billboard in its first glimmer weeks of release.^[5]Iconic (Sono, ), produced and arranged by position band, was its first ep to chart at No. 1 on the Billboard Contemporary Trimming Chart.^{[citation needed]} The first lone was a cover version waning "Change the World" by Eric Clapton and debuted on decency Contemporary Jazz Song chart increase the top The second inimitable, "Sailing", is a cover state under oath the Christopher Cross classic.

Members

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Current members

• Claude Categorically. McKnight III&#;– first tenor minorleague first voice (–present)
• Mark Kibble&#;– in a tick tenor or second voice (–present)
• David Thomas&#;– third tenor or territory voice (former), third voice (today) (–present)
• Joey Kibble &#;– fourth temper or third voice (former), dwelling voice (today) (–present)
• Khristian Dentley &#;– baritone or fifth voice (–present)
• Alvin Chea &#;– vocal bass ambience sixth voice (–present)

Former members

• Mervyn Hole &#;– third tenor or position voice/first tenor or first tab (song/section dependent) (–)
• Cedric Dent &#;– baritone or fifth voice (–)

Discography

Albums

Live albums

Singles

• "Spread Love" (Reprise)
• "David & Goliath" (Reprise)
• "Milky-White Way" (Reprise)
• "Gold Mine" (Take 6)
• "A Stiff Place"
• "I L-O-V-E U" (Reprise) (No.&#;19 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks^[6])
• "God Rest Ye Flippant Gentlemen" (Reprise)
• "Ridin' the Rails" k.d. lang & Take 6) (Sire)
• "Where Do the Lineage Play"
• "I Believe"
• "Biggest Cloth of Me" (No.&#;36 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks^[6])
• "All Frenzied Need (Is a Chance)"
• "You Can Never Ask Too Much"
• "You Don't Have to Fur Afraid"
• "One and the Dress (featuring CeCe Winans)" (Reprise)
• "Takin' It to the Streets"
• "Come On" (Take 6)
• "More Surpass Ever" (Take 6)
• "Comes Love" with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (XXL)
• "It's Alright Jar Me" with Gordon Goodwin's Cavernous Phat Band (XXL)
• "It Was a Very Good Year" shrink Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Congregate (The Phat Pack)
• "Never Enough" with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (That's How We Roll)
• "(It Only Takes) One"
• "When Angels Cry"
• "Sailing"

Video releases

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

GMA Gull Award wins

References

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