Take 6

Take 6

Infobox musical artist
Name = Take 6


Img_capt = Take 6 performs for U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush during a Black Music Month celebration in the East Room of the White House on June 30, 2001.
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Origin = Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Genre = Gospel, urban gospel, jazz, smooth jazz, R&B, pop
Years_active = 1987 –
Label = Warner Brothers
Take 6 Records
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URL = [http://www.take6.com/ www.take6.com]
Current_members = Alvin Chea
Cedric Dent
Joey Kibble
Mark Kibble
Claude V. McKnight III
David Thomas
Past_members = Mervyn Warren
Notable_instruments = voice

Take 6 is an influential 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 NAACP Image Award nominations. They won Grammy Awards in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1998, and 2003 and have collaborated with Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Don Henley, Ray Charles, Queen Latifah, Joe Sample, Quincy Jones, Marcus Miller, Brian McKnight and Gordon Goodwin.

Group biography

Oakwood College years

In 1980, Claude McKnight (older brother of R&B musician Brian McKnight). formed an a cappella quartet, The Gentlemen's Estates Quartet, at Oakwood College, a Seventh-Day Adventist college in Huntsville, Alabama, where he was a freshman. He auditioned fellow students for the hobby group. The Gentlemen were rehearsing in a campus bathroom (later said to be in Peterson Hall), getting ready for a performance, when Mark Kibble walked by and heard them singing. He joined the harmonizing, adding a fifth part, and ended up singing with them onstage that very night. [ [http://www.singers.com/take6.html Primarily A Capella: Take 6] ] Mark later invited Mervyn Warren to join the group. The group performed under the moniker "Alliance".

The group performed in local churches and on campus over the next years, with members changing due to college's inevitable comings and goings. In 1985, the lower half of the group (bass, baritone, and second tenor) left upon graduating. At that time, Alvin Chea, Cedric Dent, and David Thomas joined.

Recording group

The group was signed to Warner Brothers in 1987, and quickly changed its name to "Take 6" after a name search revealed that "Alliance" was already being used. Their eponymous debut album, released in 1988, won them two Grammy Awards and resulted in top ten appearances on both the Billboard Contemporary Jazz and Contemporary Christian Charts. Take 6's swinging, harmony-rich gospel sound attracted a flurry of attention, and the group went on to record or appear with a number of luminaries, including Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald and Stevie Wonder.

In 1991, after the release of their second album, "So Much 2 Say", Mervyn Warren left the group to pursue a career as a producer. Joey Kibble, Mark's younger brother, was invited to round out the vocal lineup. The group added instrumentation to their purely a cappella sound beginning with the record "He Is Christmas"; "Join The Band" and "Brothers" continued their streak of success, and Take 6 amassed a total of seven Grammys and eight Dove awards, as well as topping the Downbeat Magazine's Reader's and Critic's poll for seven years' consecutively. Fact|date=February 2007

Take 6's 1998 release, "So Cool", brought the group back to its a cappella origins.

In 2006 the group launched Take 6 Records and the 2006 release "Feels Good" was released on that label.

The group currently lists Nashville, Tennessee as its official home-base [cite web|url=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=57908316 |accessdate=2007-01-14 |title=Take 6|year=2006 |publisher=My Space] , although two members have resided in Los Angeles for a number of years. All members grew up Seventh-Day Adventist. Fact|date=February 2007

Members

Current members

*Alvin Chea (1985-Present) - bass
*Cedric Dent (1985-Present) - baritone
*Joey Kibble (1991-Present) - second tenor:Kibble married singer Karima Kibble (Trotter) of the gospel group Virtue in August 1997.
*Mark Kibble (1985-Present) - first tenor.
*Claude V. McKnight III (1985-Present) - first tenor.:McKnight's brother is R&B musician Brian McKnight.
*David Thomas (1985-Present) - second tenor

Former members

*Mervyn Warren (1985-1991)

Discography

Album Releases

Awards

Award wins

Award nominations

ee also

*Worship music
*List of Christian worship music artists

External links

* [http://www.take6.com/ www.take6.com] - Official web site

Footnotes


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