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Written by Andrew Burmon / Stanford Daily
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
STANFORD, CA -- Tacked to the wall of senior Sanjay Kairam’s room in Durand House is a black shirt proclaiming, “I directed the National Champion South Asian A Cappella group, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.” On Nov. 5, under Kairam’s direction, Raagapella — Stanford’s only South Asian a cappella group — won Anahat, the second national South Asian A Cappella Championship.
Raagapella was founded in 2002 by Bobby Ghosh, Class of 2005, senior Jay Pandit, senior Sudeep Roy and co-terminal student Mehul Trivedi for just one performance. It rapidly became something far bigger in scope.
The group presents a fusion of Western and South Asian music. At the competition earlier this month, it performed three songs — “Vande Mataram,” a patriotic salute to motherhood, “Meri Jaan,” a fusion hip-hop piece and a mix of the Hindi song “Chak De” and the Maroon Five pop hit “This Love.”
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 December 2005 )
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Written by Joshua Olive
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Monday, 28 November 2005 |
 ARLINGTON, MA -- Ten years after the group started, they released the 1998 CARA award-winning vocal jazz album, “Chameleon”, a disc critics universally acclaimed as one of the best jazz releases to be found. Then they went on a temporary hiatus, hung up the Until-Further-Notice sign on the door and went about their business as individuals: doing solo work, joining other groups, getting ‘real’ jobs – whatever it is people do when they’re not singing together. Then, the other day, I got an email – someone walked past the Vox One door, and the sign was gone.
What does this mean? It means one thing and one thing only: gear up for some incredible vocal jazz, because Vox One is back!
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 03 December 2005 )
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Written by ABC News
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Monday, 28 November 2005 |
 NASHVILLE, TN - Wilson "Lit" Waters, Jr., a member of the Grammy Award-winning Fairfield Four gospel group, has died at his Nashville home of cancer, family members said. He was 74.
Waters, who died on Thursday, became a member of the black a cappella band in 1982. Founded in the early 1920s, the Fairfield Four launched its career in radio then broke up in the 1950s when radio formats changed.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 November 2005 )
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