The King's Singers are a celebrated, long-lived, Grammy Award-winning British a cappella vocal ensemble. Their name recalls King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars in 1968. The group's popularity in the United Kingdom peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter they began to reach a wider audience in the U.S. where Johnny Carson invited them regularly onto his talk show. In recent years the curr...
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The King's Singers are a celebrated, long-lived, Grammy Award-winning British a cappella vocal ensemble. Their name recalls King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars in 1968. The group's popularity in the United Kingdom peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter they began to reach a wider audience in the U.S. where Johnny Carson invited them regularly onto his talk show. In recent years the current King's Singers have performed more regularly in the UK once again, with several successful appearances at the Cadogan Hall in London, including their 40th Anniversary concert on April 30, 2008, another anniversary concert the following day in the chapel of King's College Cambridge, with the choir of King's, several appearances in the Albert Hall Proms, and a concert for the Three Choirs Festival. In February 2009 their CD "Simple Gifts" won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album.
Today the ensemble remains one of the world's...
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