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Here’s why MICappella isn’t your average a capella group

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<p>Singaporean a capella group MICappella isn’t your average a capella group — they are a group of artists whose passion for music goes beyond their musical style. </p><p>Composed of Peter Huang, Juni Goh, Eugene Yip, Calin Wong, Mingwei Goh, and Tay Kexin, MICappella has been making waves in different parts of Asia as well as other parts of the world. </p><p>With a capella still getting mixed up as a genre of music, MICapella took the opportunity to clear up that it is not a genre of music but rather a style of music. Right now, they are still on a mission to change the perspective of listeners on it. It may not be the typical style people hear on the radio or streaming platforms, but the group is out to prove that their voices can do so much more than just sing. </p><p>“A capella was viewed as a sub-sect of choral music, it wasn’t viewed as something mainstream. So I wanted to change that perspective. That’s one of the key goals. And I wanted to show that this format is unique and has a place in mainstream pop and is a sustainable career. And I think we are still on that path,” Peter said. </p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-12" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cmk61F8piMR/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=511&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A12%2C%22os%22%3A2373963.099999994%2C%22ls%22%3A178178.29999999702%2C%22le%22%3A178229.59999999404%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="820" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-12" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>He went on: “It’s like we can have a rock band, a Latin band, a jazz band, or unplugged versions. So that’s a format issue. It’s not a style or genre issue. So to us, similarly, we can make a capella unique. It’s just mainly the use of instrumentation. In our case, it’s our voices.”  </p><p>Eugene, on the other hand, reiterated that their group isn’t boxed into a specific genre. In fact, they can do more than just one, two, or three genres. Name it, they can do it.</p><p>“What we decided to do was to stop people from thinking that this is a genre of music. It’s just basically replacing instruments with voices. So you can close your eyes and you listen to so many sounds. You can even hear guitars or even drums but when you open your eyes, you’ll see six microphones or just six people singing. It’s not so much of a genre because we can sing pretty much anything and almost any genre we wanted to. We’re just using our voices to replace instruments,” Eugene said.</p><p>“Basically a capella is not a genre to us but a method of expressing music,” Calin, or simply Cal, added.</p><p>When asked about where the group draws inspiration when it comes to the music that they put out, the group said that it’s always a collective effort. For their latest single, they made sure each of them gets to share their own story.</p><p>“All of us generally draw inspiration from all kinds of different places. For this particular song that we’re talking about which is our latest single, this is the very, very first time that all six of us combined forces to write it. So this time, we decided on what we wanted to be inspired by. We used a popular group in Taiwan, a Mandapop band,” Eugene said. “We wanted it to be an empowering-sounding song. So that’s where we drew inspiration from.”</p><p>Juni shared what<em> Love, Life </em>—  the follow-up to their first EP,<em> Love, MICappella</em> — is all about. Drawing from their own experiences in life, Juni said that they wrote the songs from <em>Love, Life </em>not for themselves, but for their fans who stood by them throughout all these years.</p><p>“So, it’s like a love letter to our fans. The second EP is called <em>Love Life.</em> So, it’s like how life has written a letter to us. We have seven songs in the EP. The rest of the songs that were already released were written individually. So, we all draw inspiration from our experiences in life. Then, one person wrote the song, and then after that, we go to the arrangement process,” Juni said.</p><p>“It’s a lot of individual stories. So, for the song that Eugene mentioned, the English title for the song is ‘Craze.’ It’s the last song that we’re gonna release from the album <em>Love Life. </em>So we wanted it to be a group effort or something that has a strong group sound. Because the other MICappella songs have a lot of individualities in those songs as well,” he added.</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-10" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUtpPnbl_fP/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=511&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A10%2C%22os%22%3A2334370.599999994%2C%22ls%22%3A178178.29999999702%2C%22le%22%3A178229.59999999404%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="546" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-10" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Sharing what makes their latest album different, Cal said: “In all of our previous albums, we’ve never tried anything like that. We decided to do something like that because we felt that it was time to tell our own stories. It’s also time to show our audience, our fans, and our friends our individuality and then come together as a group. That’s our main point.”</p><p>On how they want to put their music on the global scene, Tay Kexin or better known as Kex, said they want to be known not for any particular genre of music but for their pop-rock a capella style of music which they want to bring to the world.</p><p>“I think that it’s become so international nowadays. When you talk about K-Pop, I think everyone else is doing K-Pop — not just Koreans. K-Pop is a genre, a style. And everyone else is also doing K-Pop songs. Americans are also doing K-Pop songs. So I think it’s more of we want to do our style of music, our pop-rock a capella style of music and we want to bring it to the rest of the world,” Kex said.</p><p>For Cal, they see the group as special because they reach two different markets without compromising their sound.</p><p>“I think having an acapella group that focuses on Chinese pop is pretty niche in that sense. We’re quite special in that sense. But then, we are also able to bring our music overseas and we also have English songs as well. So we kind of reach two different kinds of markets in that sense. Hopefully, it will continue to work for us,” Cal said. </p><p>For MICappella, it’s all about showing sincerity in the kind of music they put out. More than prestige or fame, what matters to them is they get to make music that they are passionate about.</p><p>“I also wanted to add that as a vocal band, our style is actually not isolated to the typical a capella group. If you listen to our covers, we have heavy metal, we have K-Pop, we have rock, we have some contemporary or slightly more choral kinda original songs harmony-focused. We want to show our sincerity to the kind of music and the stories that we want to share,” Juni said.</p><p>“We don’t really want to be pigeon-holed that ‘Oh they’re an a capella group they are doing like Do-Re-Mi or lalalala thing. So, at the end of the day, we hope our sincerity can touch the audience. At the end of the day, music is also an international language. Whether it’s in English or is in Mandarin or Japanese or Thai. I think the reason why Thai and K-Pop are so big in the Philippines is the sincerity in their music as well,” he added.</p><p>Kex, on the other hand, said proof that music is a universal language is the response of their audiences no matter wherever they go — regardless if those people speak Mandarin or not.</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-8" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLHFYshlU8P/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=511&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A8%2C%22os%22%3A2289657.199999988%2C%22ls%22%3A178178.29999999702%2C%22le%22%3A178229.59999999404%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="717" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-8" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>“I think it’s the artists themselves that will shine. Like for us, apart from showing our sincerity, I think one of our main selling points is that our live shows are usually very high energy and we usually get very good responses from our audience. And we know that because we have been traveling all around the world. We have been to European countries singing Chinese songs,” Kex said.</p><p>“At the end of the song, they would always give us a standing ovation. And we would be thinking ‘Wow’ That’s where we learn that there is no real language for that. They don’t understand Chinese but they still love what they saw and what they hear,” she added.</p><p>MICapella kicked off its Taiwan tour on Friday, April 14.</p><p>Meanwhile, you can stream MICappella&#x27;s latest album <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5P1420z5sMVhSHd5lEjqHa?si=A0_izHDCQ72AbMCHXMyD4g"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.</p>

<p>MICappella fuses pop, rock Japanese anime music, and everything in between to create empowering music through their voices alone.</p>

MICappella fuses pop, rock Japanese anime music, and everything in between to create empowering music through their voices alone.

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