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PROVO — Brigham Young University’s all-male a cappella group Vocal Point announced recently that the group has signed a recording deal with Decca Gold, Universal Classics — a record label that focuses on classical repertoire.
Universal Music Group, Decca Gold’s owner, reached out to Vocal Point about two years ago to express interest in working with the nine-man singing group, according to a BYU news release.
@KSLcom@KSL5TV Vocal Point is the only collegiate a cappella group permanently housed at a university to sign a major deal like this. Pretty big news!
— McKay Crockett (@McKayCrockett) December 13, 2018
"I thought it was exciting but way too good to be true — flattering, but it'll never happen," McKay Crockett, Vocal Point's producer and artistic director, said in the release.
Yet two years later, it did, transforming Vocal Point into the only collegiate a cappella group permanently housed at a university to sign a major deal like theirs, according to Crockett.
“Vocal Point has been bringing joy and incredible musicality to audiences for many years, and so I am delighted they have joined Universal to take their collective talents to an even wider audience both here in the USA and around the world,” Universal Classics President Graham Parker said in the news release.
Universal Music Group will help Vocal Point with “all aspects of their brand,” according to their statement, including the release and distribution of their music, social media and even touring.
“It’s going to be an extension of what we’ve being doing for years,” Crockett said in the news release. “But now we can get our music out to people who otherwise wouldn’t hear it.”
The group, founded in 1991, is popular among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns Brigham Young University. But Vocal Point earned more widespread recognition when the group competed on NBC’s “The Sing-Off” in 2011. They were eliminated from the competition when the judges whittled the competitors down to the top four.
Though its members change over the years, the group continues to release singles and music videos, and will likely release a new album in 2019, according to the news release.
“Singing music that brings people joy, whatever that style may be, that’s what we want to do,” Crockett said.
