AVin: The Ship of Meat and Potato
Huffington Post’s Mike Ragogna chats with numerous artists including Pentatonix’s own Avi Kaplan. The whole interview is worth a read especially if you want to read about the Behind-the-Scenes story of Pentatonix’s self-titled album Pentatonix from Avi’s point of view (a rare and wonderful thing, like a lumberjack unidragoncorn), amongst other things (also: group dynamics, A Cappella Academy, and what’s next)…
But the most intriguing part of this is who Avi gushes about Kevin’s many achievements. Basically, the interviewer would ask one of those so-who-did-what questions and Avi would go, you know Scott will do this, Mitch will do that, Kirstie will go like this, I will go like… well, and Kevin… let me talk about Kevin. How much time do you have?
Well, okay maybe I’m exaggerating. A LITTLE. But… yeah….
Interviewer: Of course, you all have music education when you were in school.
Avi: Yeah, we were all classically trained, I was actually an opera major in college, Scott was a pop music major, Mitch had actually just graduated, he was going to be a music major, Kirstin was a music theater major in college. Kevin was actually pre-med and East Asian studies but he has been doing music and is an extremely amazing talented musician, he’s classically trained, he played at Carnegie Hall, he’s done a lot of great things in music.
Interviewer: Who oversees the vocal arrangements?
Avi: You know, we actually have a different overseer for every arrangement because we all have such different and eclectic musical styles and tastes. For instance, if we’re going to be covering an R&B song I would say that Scott would take over for that sort of thing. If we’re doing a real chill, vibe-y, emotionally type of thing, or if it’s choral and has a lot of beautiful harmonies I would say I would arrange it. Kevin is the leader when it comes to beats and all those different groove changes and stuff. Everybody has a different strength. It might even just be because of what song it is. If Kevin’s super in love with a song he can lead that one, you know?
You know? You Know? You Know?
GO READ THE REST OF THE INTERVIEW
Pic above from It’s Avi and Kevin! youtube video
Random Ship Trivia: The largest cruise ships in the world (Royal Caribbean’s Allure and Oasis) typically carry 25,500 lbs of meat and 12,500 lbs of fresh potato (not including frozen fries, which would be about the same or a bit more) for a typical 7-day cruise. Passengers eat about a metric ton of lobsters during that period.
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