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The Swingle Singers - Close-Mic Classics
110m · Music
The story of a sound that inspired decades of vocal music. In Paris 1962, Ward Swingle assembled a group of session singers and had them sing Bach as if it were jazz. He described the sound “as if the singers were whispering in the audience's ear.” The records that followed won Grammy awards, inspir
Where to see it
1 Graces Alley, London
Fri 13 Nov
19:00
The story of a sound that inspired decades of vocal music. In Paris 1962, Ward Swingle assembled a group of session singers and had them sing Bach as if it were jazz. He described the sound “as if the singers were whispering in the audience's ear.” The records that followed won Grammy awards, inspir
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