Family karaoke never hit quite like this before! The LeBaron family scored a super viral video with their astounding cover of the Les Misérables classic “One Day More.” The family sang no fewer than 10 parts from the musical arrangement, with each voice sounding better than the last! To have so many great voices in one family singing all together is just amazing. And aside from the novelty of having one family do all the parts, it’s just a great performance, with lots of tasty vocal moments packed in.
Jayson LeBaron kicked off the musical number by singing Valjean’s opening lines with a sonorous and tuneful baritone. Jordan LeBaron then sang Marius’s parts with a honeyed tone, and Angela Garrett LeBaron dropped in with a shining soprano that perfectly harmonized Jordan’s parts. Things just kept getting better and better from there on in, and The Music Man readers will definitely want to tune into Jayson’s thunderous high notes just after the 2:30 mark.
The family’s cover of “One Day More” clocked up 2.8 million views on their YouTube channel, The LeBaron Family. Viewers loved the family’s take on the Les Misérables number, and added both cheeky and complimentary comments such as “In order to marry into the family, you probably have to audition” and “I love how when the younger guy on the left starts singing a few of them smile over at him all encouragingly. Such love and talent.”
The Music Man readers might be interested to learn that the “One Day More” cover is actually the LeBaron family’s very first YouTube upload, from April 5, 2018. The family has some big-name admirers, as seen when Kelly Clarkson invited them to sing “One More Day” onstage at her concert. The LeBaron family subsequently uploaded the Clarkson performance, where it became their third-most popular video.
The LeBaron family’s YouTube account reports only that the family hail from Utah. Luckily, after their viral success, Y Magazine caught up with Heidi LeBaron Garn (who sang Madame Thenardier’s parts in the video), and she provided some additional details about the family. When quizzed about how they all learned to sing so well, Heidi explained that “My parents tell the story that my sister, who was probably two or so at the time, started singing, and they found out she was on pitch, which is really uncommon for a really little kid.” Heidi continued by explaining that after discovering their daughter’s musical talent, the parents put all the kids in singing programs, which they all took to like ducks to water. She added that her dad would play piano for singalongs, and that for as long as she could remember, the family always sang together.