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The House Jacks

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The House Jacks is a professional a cappella quintet from San Francisco, founded in 1991 by Deke Sharon. [1]

27 relations: A cappella, Beatboxing, Beelzebubs, Carnegie Hall, Deke Sharon, Ford Motor Company, Gewandhaus, Hank Williams Jr., Jabberwocks, Kid Beyond, Mancow Muller, Pitch Perfect, Pop music, Rick Dees, Rolling Stone, San Francisco, Sony, The Dartmouth Aires, The Freight and Salvage, The Sing-Off, Tommy Boy Records, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vocal jazz, Vocal percussion, Warner Bros., Wes Carroll.

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Beatboxing

Beatboxing (also beat boxing or b-boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

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Beelzebubs

The Beelzebubs, frequently referred to as "The Bubs", is an all-male a cappella group of students from Tufts University that performs a mix of pop, rock, R&B, and other types of music while spreading their motto of "Fun through Song." Founded in 1962, they have toured in Europe, Asia, South America, and North America, and they competed on NBC's The Sing-Off in December 2009, finishing in second place.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Deke Sharon

Deke Sharon (born December 12, 1967) is an American singer, arranger, composer, director, producer and teacher of a cappella music, and is one of the leaders and promoters of the contemporary a cappella community and a pioneer of the contemporary a cappella style.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, Germany, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

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Hank Williams Jr.

Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), known professionally as Hank Williams Jr., is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Jabberwocks

The Jabberwocks is the oldest a cappella group at Brown University.

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Kid Beyond

Kid Beyond (real name Andrew Chaikin) (December 7, 1969) is a voice actor, singer, beatboxer, throat singer, songwriter, and live looper based in the San Francisco area.

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Mancow Muller

Matthew Erich "Mancow" Muller (born June 21, 1966) is an American radio and television personality, actor, and former child model.

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Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect (also known as The Hit Girls in France, and Voices in Italy) is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Jason Moore and written by Kay Cannon.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Rick Dees

Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 novelty song "Disco Duck".

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Sony

is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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The Dartmouth Aires

The Dartmouth Aires is a collegiate a cappella group from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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The Freight and Salvage

The Freight and Salvage (known as "The Freight") is a nonprofit musical performance venue in Berkeley, California, that primarily hosts folk music and world music acts.

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The Sing-Off

The Sing-Off is an American television singing competition featuring a cappella groups.

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Tommy Boy Records

Tommy Boy Music is an American independent record label founded in 1981 by Tom Silverman.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.

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Vocal jazz

Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.

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Vocal percussion

Vocal percussion is the art of creating sounds with one's mouth that approximate, imitate, or otherwise serve the same purpose as a percussion instrument, whether in a group of singers, an instrumental ensemble, or solo.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Wes Carroll

Wes Carroll was born September 27, 1970 in Schererville, Indiana, and is known as a pioneer and teacher of mouth drumming a form of vocal percussion from the musical genre of contemporary a cappella, now widely known as beatboxing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Jacks

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