About Us!
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Supertonic! is the oldest existing a cappella group at Santa Clara University. Founded in 2006 by several students and one alum whose all shared an ambition to pretend to be electric guitars, members of Supertonic! have since distinguished themselves in performances at Music at Noon, Relay for Life, LoveJones, for former University President Paul Locatelli, SJ, and even at the Golden Circle fundraiser with Kenny Loggins and Gladys Knight. Our stated goal is for the audience to enjoy listening to our music as much as we enjoy performing it. Supertonic! is a singing formation in the tradition of groups like Rockapella, The House Jacks and The Real Group: any noise in a song is produced either by the mouths or the appendages of its singers.
As with other college groups like University of Pennsylvania's Off The Beat, Stanford's Fleet Street Singers, the Tufts Beelzebubs (who invented the genre in 1991) or Santa Clara's former groups ("Choral Pleasure," c.2000-2003, and "Santa Clarans for Unaccompanied Music," '04-'05), we are entirely self-governed, with no direct faculty intervention in our arranging, composing, learning and performing. (This does, in fact, have something to do with why those groups are "former:" it can be challenging to pass the torch of leadership from one generation of students to another.) And, as with many singing groups, we have absolutely no shame, and will sing anything from a jazz ballad to gospel to rap to a Michael Jackson medley!
Supertonic! can be contracted to entertain at social, scholastic and corporate functions. Please contact us via the form here on our webpage. |
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