DCappella is an
a cappella group formed via a national search and run by
Disney Music Group
Disney Music Group (DMG) is the music recording arm of Disney Platform Distribution, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It is located at the studio's headquarters in Burbank, California. The division's subsidiaries consist of two owned record ...
featuring Disney songs.
The group originally consisted of Antonio Fernandez, Joe Santoni, Morgan Keene,
Orlando Dixon, RJ Woessner,
Shelley Regner
Shelley Anne Regner (born December 21, 1988) is an American actress and singer, known for her role as Ashley Jones in the ''Pitch Perfect'' film series (2012–2017). She is also known as a past member of Disney's acappella group, DCappella.
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, and Sojourner Brown: it currently consists of Fernandez, Santoni, Keene, Dixon, Woessner, and Kalen Kelly.
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. He has been referred to as "t ...
is DCappella’s co-creator, music director, arranger and producer.
History
DCappella was conceived in 2012 with
auditions starting in November 2017. Then it was announced in December 2017 as being formed by Disney Music Group through a nationwide search for talent run by Deke Sharon. Plans at the time was for a seven member group,
soprano,
mezzo,
alto,
tenor
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,
high baritone,
low bass and
vocal percussionist. On April 29, 2018, the seven members were confirmed to be ''
Newsies'' star Morgan Keene as the soprano, ''
Pitch Perfect
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'' star
Shelley Regner
Shelley Anne Regner (born December 21, 1988) is an American actress and singer, known for her role as Ashley Jones in the ''Pitch Perfect'' film series (2012–2017). She is also known as a past member of Disney's acappella group, DCappella.
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as the mezzo,
Tony Awards
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performer Sojourner Brown as the alto, ''
Saturday Night Live
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'' performer RJ Woessner as the tenor, ''
The Voice
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'' finalist Orlando Dixon as the baritone, Hunkapella member Joe Santoni as the bass, and American Music Machine member Antonio Fernandez as the vocal percussionist. In January 2018, a list of 14 member was released, as at the time, Disney planned for two separate touring teams within DCappella group.
Disney Music released the group's first single, "Immortals" from Disney's "Big Hero 6" on April 27, 2018.
DCappella made its first appearance on
American Idol
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's Disney Night April 29, 2018.
The group gave its first concert performance over Memorial Day weekend 2018 as the opening act to Disney's Beauty and the Beast Live in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl
along with
ABC
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's first Idol winner
Maddie Poppe
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. The group's debut self titled album was released on November 16, 2018.
DCappella's first tour started in Jacksonville, Florida, in January 2019 and ended two months later in Oakland, California.
Regner was replaced as mezzo by Kalen Kelly in May 2019.
On October 25, 2019, they released their first holiday album called ''Rockin Holiday''. In March 2020, Brown was replaced by Kelly Denice Taylor.
Taylor left the group on May 9, 2022.
Members
*Vocal percussion
**Antonio Fernandez
*Bass
**Joe Santoni
*Soprano
**Morgan Keene
*Baritone
**Orlando Dixon
*Tenor
** RJ Woessner
*Mezzo
**
Shelley Regner
Shelley Anne Regner (born December 21, 1988) is an American actress and singer, known for her role as Ashley Jones in the ''Pitch Perfect'' film series (2012–2017). She is also known as a past member of Disney's acappella group, DCappella.
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(April 29, 2018–May 22, 2019)
**Kalen Kelly (May 22, 2019–)
[
*Alto
**Sojourner Brown]
Timeline
Lineup
Music
Albums
All music are arranged by Deke Sharon
Singles
Appearances and presentations
* ''American Idol
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'' (ABC
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** Disney–ABC Television ...
) Disney Night, April 29, 2018[
* ''Disney's Beauty and the Beast Live in Concert'' ( Hollywood Bowl) Memorial Day weekend of May 28, 2018 opening act]Last Christmas
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Tours
* Live A Cappella Concert Experience[ (January to March 2019) US, 40 stops][
* National tour (August to September 2019) Japan, 9 stops
]
Awards
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, Best Rock Video
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, Outstanding Special/Visual Effects
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, Outstanding Video Editing
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, Best Soundtrack Video
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, Best Video by a Professional Group
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, Deke Sharon for "Immortals"
, Best Professional Arrangement for a Non-Scholastic Group
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References
External links
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*, PR website
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American vocal groups
Professional a cappella groups
Musical groups established in 2018
Walt Disney Records artists
2018 establishments in the United States