Home Free

Home Free started in Mankato, Minnesota back in 2000 as just a hobby for the five band members. The group struggled to find a permanent lead tenor until they met Austin Brown who worked on a cruise ship as a featured singer. Home Free and Austin met and he told the group that if there ever was a spot open in their band he would be interested in taking it. When their lead tenor moved away, they called Brown and he became their lead tenor. They entered the Sing-off and competed against many talented groups but they took the gold. Before performing their last song on the show, they got to meet season three’s winner, Pentatonix, who gave them a couple of tips on how to steal the show. “You just have to feel it,” says Scott Hoying, one of three lead singers in the group, “Don’t think about anything other than what it feels like to be out on that stage living your dream.” Pentatonix lived out their dream on the same stage on Season three of The Sing-Off and ended up revolutionizing the way the world sees acapella music.