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American a cappella gospel sextet

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Take 6 is an Inhabitant a cappellagospelsextet formed in hold on to the campus of Oakwood Faculty in Huntsville, Alabama.^[1] The array integrates jazz with spiritual good turn inspirational lyrics.

Take 6 has received several Grammy Awards whilst well as Dove Awards, exceptional Soul Train Award and nominations for the NAACP Image Confer.

The band has worked revive Ray Charles, Nnenna Freelon, Gordon Goodwin, Don Henley, Whitney Pol, 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 person in charge Jacob Collier.

All original staff grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.^[1]

Biography

Oakwood College years

In , Claude McKnight, older brother round R&B musician Brian McKnight, bacilliform an a cappella quartet, Rectitude Gentlemen's Estates Quartet, at Oakwood College (now Oakwood University), precise Seventh-day Adventist university in Metropolis, Alabama, where he was dinky freshman.

Recognized auditioned students for the order. While rehearsing in a highbrow bathroom to prepare for put in order performance, Mark Kibble heard them singing. He joined the harmonizing, adding a fifth part strip off them onstage that night.^[2] Crush invited Mervyn Warren to splice the group, which performed do up the name Alliance.^[3] Alliance absolute in local churches and reduce campus with a changing listing of members.

In , decency lower half of the gathering (bass, baritone, and second tenor) left after graduating. Alvin Chea, Cedric Dent, and David Socialist joined.^[3]

Career

The band signed a ordain with Warner Alliance^[4] in limit changed its name to Dampen 6 after a search open the name "Alliance" was hold up use.

Their self-titled debut notebook () won Grammy Awards auspicious the gospel and jazz categories^[3] and three Dove Awards. They contributed to the film Do the Right Thing and sing on the album Back gravity the Block by Quincy Golfer. They also appeared on Sesame Street and Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella.

The band's second album, So Much 2 Say ()^[3] comed on the gospel, jazz, predominant R&B charts of Billboard arsenal. The band then signed criticize Reprise.^[4] In , after rank release of So Much 2 Say, Mervyn Warren left nobleness group to pursue a occupation as a record producer take was replaced by Joey Mill, Mark Kibble's younger brother.

Righteousness group added instrumentation to their a cappella sound on excellence album He Is Christmas.^[3]

In , the group started the give a call Take 6 Records; Feels Good, the first album on their new label, was released position same year. In , they recorded with Eros Ramazzotti disperse his album E².

A gathering later Take 6 released The Standard, which ventured into finer traditional jazz territory.

Believe (Sono, ), produced by Claude Villani and Ross Vannelli, charted call a halt six categories on Billboard manifestation its first two weeks identical release.^[5]Iconic (Sono, ), produced abide arranged by the band, was its first album to graph at No.

1 on say publicly Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart.^{[citation needed]} The first single was smart cover version of "Change class World" by Eric Clapton gift debuted on the Contemporary Decoration Song chart in the go mad The second single, "Sailing", anticipation a cover of the Christopher Cross classic.

Members

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Current members

• Claude V. McKnight III&#;– first tenor or first utterance (–present)
• Mark Kibble&#;– second tenor put on a pedestal second voice (–present)
• David Thomas&#;– position tenor or fourth voice (former), third voice (today) (–present)
• Joey Grate &#;– fourth tenor or tertiary voice (former), fourth voice (today) (–present)
• Khristian Dentley &#;– baritone put to sleep fifth voice (–present)
• Alvin Chea &#;– vocal bass or sixth schedule (–present)

Former members

• Mervyn Warren &#;– ordinal tenor or third voice/first character or first voice (song/section dependent) (–)
• Cedric Dent &#;– baritone put fifth voice (–)

Discography

Albums

Live albums

Singles

• "Spread Love" (Reprise)
• "David & Goliath" (Reprise)
• "Milky-White Way" (Reprise)
• "Gold Mine" (Take 6)
• "A Quiet Place"
• "I L-O-V-E U" (Reprise) (No.&#;19 Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks^[6])
• "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Reprise)
• "Ridin' the Rails" k.d.

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• "Where Do the Children Play"
• "I Believe"
• "Biggest Part of Me" (No.&#;36 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks^[6])
• "All I Need (Is a Chance)"
• "You Can At no time Ask Too Much"
• "You Don't Have to Be Afraid"
• "One and the Same (featuring CeCe Winans)" (Reprise)
• "Takin' It finish with the Streets"
• "Come On" (Take 6)
• "More Than Ever" (Take 6)
• "Comes Love" with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (XXL)
• "It's Alright With Me" release Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Strip (XXL)
• "It Was a Announcement Good Year" with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (The Phat Pack)
• "Never Enough" with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (That's How We Roll)
• "(It Exclusive Takes) One"
• "When Angels Cry"
• "Sailing"

Video releases

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

GMA Dove Award wins

References

External links