Deke Sharon

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Deke Sharon
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On stage with the House Jacks, 2006
Background information
Birth nameKurk Richard Toohey, Jr.
Born (1967-12-12) December 12, 1967 (age 56)
OriginSan Francisco, California, USA
Genres A Cappella
Occupations
  • Singer
  • arranger
  • composer
  • director
  • producer
  • television producer
  • teacher
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • instrument mimicry
Years active1991–present
Labels
Website Official website

Deke Sharon (born December 12, 1967) is an American singer, arranger, composer, director, producer, author, coach, [1] pioneer, [2] [3] [4] and teacher of a cappella music, and is one of the leaders and promoters of the contemporary a cappella community. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] He has been referred to as "the father of contemporary a cappella" [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] and "the godfather of a cappella". [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

Contents

Early life

Deke Sharon was born and raised in San Francisco. [25] He started singing in choir groups at age five, [26] including the San Francisco Boys Chorus. [27] [28] He attended Town School for Boys and San Francisco University High School, [29] [30] where he sang lead (second tenor) in the barbershop quartet his freshman year in "The Music Man," [31] and kept it going all four years, learning to direct and arrange a cappella. [32]

College

Sharon spent his college years in Boston, graduating from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts in childhood studies, [33] and a Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music [34] with a focus on vocal jazz, third stream (now called "contemporary improvisation"), and music theory. [35]

Tufts Beelzebubs' Foster Street (1991) Fosterstreetcover.jpg
Tufts Beelzebubs' Foster Street (1991)

In college, he directed the collegiate a cappella group the Tufts Beelzebubs, [36] [37] transforming the group's sound to reflect modern rock, [38] with intricate instrumental vocalizations [39] [40] and the integration of vocal percussion. [41] [42] The 1990–1991 Beelzebubs album Foster Street that he directed musically is credited with the creation of contemporary a cappella sound. [43] Sharon had to audition three times before he was accepted, as he was seen as "overzealous" [44] during a time when a cappella was not popular, a fact which was mentioned in the book "Pitch Perfect." [45] [46] Beca and Benji in the Pitch Perfect films are partially based on Sharon. [47] During this time, he decided to make a career of contemporary a cappella [48] [49] and popularize this new style, despite being laughed at and told it was impossible, [50] [51] "like making a career of professional Tiddlywinks." [52]

Film

Deke and Rebel Wilson recording the Pitch Perfect 2 Finale Dekeandrebel.jpg
Deke and Rebel Wilson recording the Pitch Perfect 2 Finale

Sharon was the music director [53] [54] and arranger [55] for the film Pitch Perfect , [12] [56] [57] [58] as well as singing on several of the songs, where he was credited on screen as "Male Voice #1." [59] He returned for Pitch Perfect 2 , [60] in which he has a brief cameo as the German judge and broadcaster. [61] [62] [63] He helped involve several professional a cappella groups and singers with the film, including The Filharmonic, [64] Penn Masala, and Pentatonix. Sharon also worked with the Green Bay Packers. [65] [66] He returned to music-direct, arrange, and vocally produce for Pitch Perfect 3 . [67] He had also arranged for the film, The Social Network . [68]

Television

In December 2009, he acted as music director, arranger, coach, and consultant behind the scenes on America's first a cappella reality show competition, titled The Sing-Off , [69] and returned in 2010 as one of the show's producers. [70] He also served as Executive Music Producer on the Dutch Sing Off, [71] Sing Off South Africa [72] and Sing-Off China, including several guest appearances as a judge and performer. [73]

Along with The House Jacks, he sang and performed the 2011 Monday Night Football theme song "Are You Ready for Some Football" with Hank Williams, Jr. [74]

He worked with Straight No Chaser on their first PBS special Live in New York. [75]

He appeared in front of the camera for the first time on Lifetime's Pitch Slapped reality show, in which he coached after school high school a cappella group Stay Tuned from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, [67] [76] focusing both on their musicality and emotional delivery. [77] The show also aired overseas in London, [78] Israel (where its name in Hebrew means "a cappella battle") [79] across Latin America, Indonesia and the Philippines (under the name Pitch Battle). [80]

Pitch Battle Finale Judges: Gareth Malone, Kelis, Deke Sharon Pitch Battle Finale Judges.jpg
Pitch Battle Finale Judges: Gareth Malone, Kelis, Deke Sharon

As of summer 2017 he is series music director for a new competitive choir show on BBC1 called Pitch Battle , [81] as well as appearing on camera each episode providing insight and commentary. [82] [83] He was also the third judge for the season one live finale. [84]

He judged Eurovision Choir 2019. [85] In 2022 music directed "Best in Snow" for Disney+ as well as co-arranged/vocal produced the a cappella scenes in Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin. [86]

Performing career

Upon graduation in 1991, he moved back to San Francisco, bringing with him a handful of other collegiate a cappella singers to form The House Jacks, [87] a pioneering a cappella group [88] known for its original music and sound, [89] often called "the original rock band without instruments", [90] in part because they were the first a cappella group with a designated vocal percussionist. [91]

House Jacks Promo Photo (circa 2001) HouseJacksHeadshot.jpg
House Jacks Promo Photo (circa 2001)

The House Jacks have released seven albums (signed to Warner Brothers/Tommy Boy Records in the mid-1990s) [92] and completed several world tours. [93] He has performed with many musicians, including Ray Charles, Crosby, Stills and Nash, LL Cool J, Run DMC, The Temptations, and James Brown. [94] [95] [96] They have won "Best Pop Rock Album" from the Contemporary A Cappella Society, for "Unbroken" (2004), "Level" (2010), and "Pollen (2014). [97]

He also performs as a solo artist, with groups such as the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus [98] and at events like Singapore's "Vocal Edge" [99] and directing DCINY's annual "Total Vocal" at Carnegie Hall [100] [101] [102] as well as serving as Emcee for a cappella events, such as the annual Techapella concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area. [103]

Studio session credits include the Wii game Just Dance Kids 2 including the songs "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Barbara Ann", and "Mahna Mahna". [104]

Arranging

A prolific, award-winning [105] [106] vocal music arranger, he has arranged more than 2,000 songs [107] for a wide range of ensembles, including some of vocal music's best-known groups. [108] The Best Arrangement award at the Colorado Harmony Sweepstakes is named after him, [109] and he has won the best arrangement award at the Harmony Sweepstakes several times since 1991. [110] He was named "favorite arranger" in the 2010 A Cappella Community Awards [111] and won "Best Professional Arrangement" in 2019. [112]

Live music direction and production

He founded and directed a cappella groups at Walt Disney World/Epcot (American Vybe) and Disneyland (Groove 66). [113] In 2013, he created a new professional a cappella ensemble in New Mexico: "Voasis". [114] [115] [116] In 2014 and 2015 he music-directed the Sing Off Live tour [117] [118] He created Vocalosity for which he was artistic producer, music director, [119] and arranger. [41] They started touring in 2016 [120] and their debut album was released on Universal Classics. [119]

In December 2017 he announced the formation of DCappella, a seven-member contemporary a cappella group launched in 2018 that will tour performing arts centers singing music from classic and contemporary Disney films. [121] He serves as the group's co-creator, music director, arranger, album producer and artistic producer [122] [123] [124] integrating modern sounds and technology. [125] He also Music Directed "Disney: The Castle" in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia in 2023 [126]

His production with Columbia Artists Management, "A Cappella Live," toured the US featuring four a cappella acts: Committed (vocal group), The Filharmonic, Women of the World, and Blake Lewis. [127] [128] [129]

Album production

As a producer of a cappella recordings, [130] he is known for having changed the sound of collegiate a cappella recording via the Beelzebubs' album Code Red. He has arranged and produced multiple albums and tracks for Atlantic Records' Straight No Chaser, [131] including the certified gold "Christmas Cheers". [132] [133] [134]

In the early 1990s, he co-founded The Best of College A Cappella (BOCA) compilation, [135] which he now produces annually with Varsity Vocals.

Event production and promotion

In college, he brought the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival to the East Coast, producing the first Boston regional with the Beelzebubs. [136] Shortly after college he founded the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), [137] [138] the West and East Coast A Cappella Summits (the first contemporary a cappella conferences), and a number of other a cappella-related projects, programs, and events [139] with the goal of popularizing a cappella. [140] Recent festivals include Aca-West in San Francisco, VoiceJam in Arkansas, [141] Solevoci in Italy, Vocal Asia (in Japan, China, and Taiwan), [142] [143] [144] Aarhus Vocal Festival in Denmark, and Croappella in Croatia [145] [146] [147] [148] [149] [150] where he often hosts the evening concert or competition as well as teach during the day. [151]

He is a frequent host and emcee at a cappella events, such as Silicon Valley's "Techapella", [152] [153] The National A Cappella Convention, [154] The annual College Notes event in Walnut Creek CA, [155] "Pacific Harmony" in New Zealand, [156] AKA A Cappella in Singapore, [157] and the Maui Barbershop Festival. [158] Some of the videos he has posted to promote a cappella groups around the world have gone viral. [159] [160] He's also frequently in residency or headlining events at universities such as Indiana U, Midland U and Tufts U [161] [162] and co created as well as emceed the "History of Harmony" concerts with Chicago A Cappella. [163] [164]

He's also active in the choral world, presenting at choral festivals, such as the World Choir Games in 2021 in Flanders [165] [166] and 2024 in New Zealand, [167] [168] World Symposium on Choral Music, [169] Cambridge Choir Festival, [170] GALA Choruses [171] and Chorus America, [172] as well as the Barbershop community with the Barbershop Harmony Society [173] and Sweet Adelines International [174] [175] [176] [177]

His work to popularize and promote a cappella worldwide is now being recognized by major media: "A Capella [sic] is more popular than ever, thanks to this guy" (NPR Here and Now), [178] "Deke Sharon makes a cappella cool again" (NPR All Things Considered). [14]

Organizations

In his college dorm he founded The Contemporary A Cappella Society [179] [180] [181] [182] [183] and The Ultimate A Cappella Arranging Service (which became TotalVocal). Shortly after graduation, he created the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards ("CARAs"), a cappella's equivalent of the Grammy Awards. [71]

He formed the Contemporary A Cappella League, [184] a new national network of adult "post-collegiate" a cappella groups. [185]

Writing

Biographical Information about Deke Sharon can be found in Mickey Rapkin's Pitch Perfect (2008), Rick Smolan's 24 Hours in Cyberspace (1996), Joshua Duchan's Powerful Voices (2012), Alysia Abbott's Fairyland (2013) [192] Darren Pleasance's "True North" (2023) and Carsten Gerlitz's Popchor (2018) [193]

Musical theater

Teaching vocal instrumental sounds to the cast of In Transit TeachingInTransit.jpg
Teaching vocal instrumental sounds to the cast of In Transit

The pioneering, [194] first all-a cappella musical on Broadway, In Transit, [195] for which he is co-producer and arranged all the music, [196] opened at the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway in December 2016. [197] He started working with the production just after their off-Broadway run five years earlier. [198]

Vocalosity, a live a cappella theatrical concert production with diverse cast, [199] began touring in January 2016 and has performed in 30 states. [200] [201] [202]

He has worked on a cappella musical theatre projects including "Street" and "Our World". [203]

He arranged the opening number for Andrew Lloyd Webber's new greatest hits musical "Unmasked", [204] a fast-paced mashup of 17 of his greatest hits.

Education

He co-founded and directs Camp Acappella for teens and adults each summer [205] [206] at Wright State University [207] in Dayton, Ohio [208] and teaches the music production class Soup To Nuts periodically. [209] as well as travels to other countries to work with groups in person, such as New Zealand, [210] Brazil, Italy, [211] Sri Lanka and Singapore. [212]

His YouTube channel features a variety of educational topics including how to sound like several different instruments. A GE special features him discussing the physics of a cappella. [213]

In 2016, he joined the California branch of the American Choral Directors Association as the first ever Contemporary A Cappella R&R chair. [214] and co-created Acappella.how for google [215] His Camp A Cappella Intensive in Washington DC started in 2022, a partnership with Ben Folds, Planet Word, and the National Symphony Orchestra. [216]

Awards

The Pitch Perfect soundtrack earned several awards, including an RIAA platinum record certification, the American Music Award for best soundtrack, [217] an Online Film and Television Association nomination for Best Music, Adapted Song (Don't You Forget About Me) [218] and an MTV Video Music Award for "Best Musical Moment". [219] [ better source needed ]

The Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, [220] secured the American Music Award for best Soundtrack [221] and a Grammy nomination for Best Soundtrack. [222]

As album producer, he was nominated for a Dove Award in 2012 (Best Contemporary Gospel Album: Committed). [223]

In 2016, he became an honorary member of the Barbershop Harmony Society, one of only twenty since 1938, [224] and he was named an honorary member of BYU Vocal Point. [225] In 2017 he was awarded the P.T. Barnum Award for excellence in Entertainment from his alma mater, Tufts University. [226]

He has received two lifetime achievement awards for his work in a cappella: in 2016 for the 25th anniversary of his founding of thee Contemporary A Cappella Society [227] and in 2018, from the A Cappella Music Awards. [228]

Other

He is known for his ability to replicate a variety of instruments (e.g. trumpet, [229] guitar, flute, violin, muted trumpet, harmonica) with his voice—which he teaches online [230] and via "Singing Instruments" seminars [231] —teaching summer camp for young vocalists, [232] and adjudicating choral festivals around the world. [233] He has worked with many professional pop vocal groups, including 98 Degrees, The Nylons and Boyz II Men. [234]

Helping groups get started has been a ongoing goal of his for 30 years, which he does by providing free advice, support [235] and arrangements. [236] [237] He also works with organizations philanthropically who support vocal harmony. [238] [239]

He served on the CASA board for almost twenty years, often as President or Vice President. [240] Acapellablog named him the number-one "a cappella power player to keep an eye on in 2012", [241] and NPR credits him for "making a cappella cool again". [14]

In 2016 he launched an a cappella podcast called "Counterpoint" with co-host Robert Dietz [242] and has appeared on other podcasts. [243] [244] [245] [246] [247] [248]

To help promote Good Omens, he arranged several songs for "The Chattering Order of St Beryl," a group of singing nuns., [249] [250] and co-created Walmart's "Sparkappella." [251] [252]

When the cult NXIVM tried to use a cappella as a recruiting device, he drew out Keith Raniere in a public forum, [253] [254] [255] resulting in his being put on their list of enemies. [256] [257]

He has been featured repeatedly in Kiplinger's Personal Finance for socially responsible investing. [258]

He describes his life's work is "to get more people singing" [259] because "music can build a better community" [260] as "our country needs to understand the importance of working together". [261] His motto is "Harmony through harmony." [262]

Selected bibliography

TitleYearCategoryISBN
A Cappella Arranging2012 Non fiction ISBN   1458416577 ISBN   9781538185308
A Cappella2015Non fiction ISBN   147061667X
The Heart of Vocal Harmony: Emotional Expression in Group Singing2016Non fiction ISBN   1495057836
A Cappella Warmups for Pop and Jazz Choirs2017Non fiction ISBN   0793595290
So You Want To Sing A Cappella: A Guide For Performers2017Non fiction ISBN   153810587X
Teaching Music Through Performance in Contemporary A Cappella2020Non fiction ISBN   9781622774876
A Cappella Arranging 2.0: The Next Level2024Non fiction ISBN   9781538172667 ISBN   9781538172674
TitleYearCategoryISBN
Contemporary A Cappella Songbook Vol 11996 Song book ISBN   0793595290
Contemporary A Cappella Songbook Vol 21997Song book ISBN   0793595282
A CASA Christmas1998Song book ISBN   0793595274
Songs For All Occasions1999Song book ISBN   0634011707
I Feel Good: A Contemporary A Cappella Collection2000Song book ISBN   0634025600
Natural Woman2001Song book ISBN   0634033611
Shout2002Song book ISBN   0634055127
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun2003Song book ISBN   0634084224
Good Ol A Cappella Vol 12003Song book ISBN   0634055275
ShBoom: Contemporary A Cappella Songbook2003Song book ISBN   0634055283
A Cappella Jazz Broadway2004Song book ISBN   0634097776
A Cappella Jazz Classics2004Song book ISBN   0634084232
Respect2004Song book ISBN   0634084240
Deck The Hall2006Song book ISBN   0634084216
Ya Gotta Be2007Song book ISBN   1423412397
Love Songs A Cappella2010Song book ISBN   0634055240
DCappella Tour Songbook2019Song book ISBN   9781540041791

Selected discography

AlbumYear(s)Role
Fourteen – Tufts Beelzebubs 1989Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Beelzebub Winter Invitational – Tufts Beelzebubs1990Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Foster Street – Tufts Beelzebubs1991Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Sing Naked – House Jacks1991Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Naked Noise – House Jacks1994Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Best of College A Cappella1995–presentProducer
Urban Harmony: R&B A Cappella1996Producer
Funkwich – House Jacks1997Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
A Cappella All-Stars: The CARAs1997–2000Producer
Harmony Sweepstakes1997–1998Producer
Voices Only: A Cappella Originals1997Producer
Yearbook: Live from Spring Thing1997–1998Producer
Best of High School A Cappella1998–presentProducer
Naked Funk – House Jacks1999Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Wasting Our Parents' Money: BOCA Humor1999Producer
Drive – House Jacks2001Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Next – Tufts Beelzebubs2001Arranger, Producer
Disney's American Vybe – American Vybe2001Music Director, Arranger
Punch – Various2002Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Embodiment – BaSix (Denmark)2002Producer
Only In America – Peking and the Mystics2002Producer
Code Red – Tufts Beelzebubs2003Arranger, Producer
Unbroken – House Jacks2004Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Fitchy & Grikko – House Jacks2005Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Udder Won – Moosebutter2005Vocalist, Producer
Unleash the Periscope – Colorado College Back Row2006Producer
Get Down Mr. President – House Jacks2007Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Good Things – House Jacks2009Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Christmas Cheers – Straight No Chaser 2009Arranger, Producer
The Sing-Off tracks – US Sing-Off Cast, Season 1–52009–2014Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Go Nuts – Colorado College Back Row2010Producer
With A Twist – Straight No Chaser 2010Arranger, Producer
Level – House Jacks2010Music Director, Arranger, Vocalist, Producer
Nota – Nota 2010Arranger, Producer
Harmonies for the Holidays – Sing-Off Cast, Season Two2010Arranger, Producer
Best of The Sing-Off Season Two – Sing-Off Cast2011Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Committed – Committed 2011Arranger, Producer
Songs of the Season – Sing-Off Cast, Season Three2011Arranger, Producer
Pitch Perfect Soundtrack – Pitch Perfect cast2012Arranger, Music Director, Vocalist, Producer
Act Accordingly – Gentlemen's Rule2012Arranger, Producer
Life's So Lyrical – Forte2012Arranger, Producer
Blackjack – The House Jacks2012Arranger, Music Director, Vocalist, Producer
Southern Autumn Nostalgia – Street Corner Symphony 2013Arranger, Producer
Pollen – The House Jacks2014Arranger, Music Director, Vocalist, Producer
Best of BOCA2014Producer
Pitch Perfect 2 Soundtrack – Pitch Perfect Cast2015Arranger, Music Director, Vocalist, Producer
Pitch Slapped Live Performances – Stay Tuned2016Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Vocalosity – Vocalosity2016Arranger, Music Director, Vocalist, Producer
Straight No Chaser – I'll Have Another2016Arranger, Producer ("Run Run Rudolph")
In Transit – Original Broadway Cast2017Arranger, Producer
Pitch Perfect 3 Soundtrack – Cast2017Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Incredibles 2 Soundtrack – D Cappella2018Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Full Rally – Tufts Beelzebubs2018Arranger, Producer
D Cappella – D Cappella2018Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Unholy Night – Chattering Order of St Beryl (Good Omens)2019Arranger, Coach/consultant
D Cappella Japanese album – D Cappella2019Arranger, Music Director, Producer
SparkAppella - SparkAppella2019Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Rockin Holiday – D Cappella2019Arranger, Music Director, Producer
All Ears – D Cappella2020Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Holiday A Cappella – D Cappella2021Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Magic Reimagined – D Cappella2022Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Home For The Holidays – D Cappella2022Arranger, Music Director, Producer
Pitch Perfect: Bumper In Berlin – Soundtrack2022Arranger, Music Director, Producer

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Pitch Slapped is a reality show on Lifetime. It premiered on January 5, 2016. It follows a cappella teams from two New Jersey high schools that are mentored by some of the best coaches in the industry as they face off in weekly competitions, leading up to a championship sing-off. Cherry Hill's Stay Tuned learns under the tutelage of Deke Sharon—who was the on-site music director for the Pitch Perfect films—while singer and performance coach Diana Preisler guides Highlands Voices as they prep for their performances.

Techapella is an annual showcase of a cappella music hosted by members of tech companies in Silicon Valley, California. The event was started in 2013 by Laolee Xiong and Aaron Roan, founders of Facebook's The Vocal Network and Google's Googapella, respectively.

DCappella was an a cappella group formed via a national search and run by Disney Music Group featuring Disney songs. The group originally consisted of Antonio Fernandez, Joe Santoni, Morgan Keene, Orlando Dixon, RJ Woessner, Shelley Regner, and Sojourner Brown: Kalen Kelly and Kelly Denice Taylor joined the group after Regner and Brown left. Deke Sharon was DCappella’s co-creator, music director, arranger and producer.

Bill Hare is an American Grammy Award-winning audio engineer known for pioneering contemporary recording techniques in a cappella. He was the first to record voices individually, and the first to mic singers exactly as one would mic instruments. Over the course of his career, Hare has become well known for his outsize role in shaping the sound of recorded a cappella. Industry observers have called him the "patriarch" and "the Dr. Dre" of a cappella recording. Deke Sharon, founder and longtime president of the Contemporary A Cappella Society, wrote of Hare's influence in 2018: "The sound of contemporary recorded a cappella owes more to his technique, style, and pioneering than any other person."

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