Pentatonix

Pentatonix started with Kristie Maldonado, Scott Hoying, and Mitch Grassi when they were still in high school. The trio entered a contest hosted by Glee and even though they didn’t win, their video gained popularity on YouTube and eventually was noticed by Avi Kaplan, who was well known in the acapella community. Kaplan then proceeded to join the vocal band as the lead base. Kevin Olusola was contacted after the group found him on YouTube through a mutual friend “celloboxing” which is the art of beatboxing and playing the cello at the same time. Pentatonix got their name from the pentatonic scale which consists of five notes per octave. Hoying says it symbolizes their group. Week after week on the Sing-off, Pentatonix never failed to amaze the judges and wow the crowd. They were the youngest and the smallest group on the show in Season three but it didn’t stop them from taking the glory and the fame. Although the group is done with the Sing-off, they are just on their way to rising fame. With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, sold out concerts in the United States and the UK, and their most recent album, Pentatonix Volume. 2, on the top ten on the Billboard, Pentatonix has changed the way everyone thinks about acapella music.