This student choir’s lead vocalist Alexa Moster gave music lovers whole body chills with her soulful tour de force on Bishop Briggs’ “River.” The talented young lady led the two dozen vocalists from Thunk A Cappella in a passionate performance that featured jaw-dropping vocal lines that recreated the entire song. Moster really stole the show with an intense lead vocal that tore the roof off, and the energy that she put into the show blew viewers all over the world away, resulting in a 17 million view viral upload.
Moster impressed with her ability to not only fill the entire room with powerhouse belting, but also to switch gears and drop some soulful crooning. Her energy was matched by the mixed-gender choir, who gave 100% to the performance while delivering some killer vocal lines in the creative a cappella arrangement. The Music Man loves to share lightning in the bottle performances like this from independent artists, and Thunk A Cappella really cracked this one for six!
Thunk A Cappella gained a global audience after their take on “River” went viral, and it has since become their most popular video. Fans were impressed by the group’s fiery energy and praised their performance with comments such as “It gave chills all over my body, that’s the team spirit every school must have” and “The soloist should be on Broadway. So powerful and pure!!! I sing like her in my dreams.”
The “River” performance is not the only time Thunk A Cappella have gone viral. They also put a 4.6 million view upload on the board with their rendition of Sara Bareilles’ heartbreaking ballad “She Used to Be Mine.” This number is very emotionally intense and not at all easy to pull off, but the soloist Aiden Fisher really steps up to the plate to deliver a killer performance. Naturally, the talented vocal line of Thunk A Cappella matches her note for note throughout.
Thunk A Cappella was founded at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1993, and is the institution’s oldest a cappella group. The Music Man readers might be interested to hear that the vocal group is entirely directed and produced by students of the university. Thunk A Cappella began uploading their campus performances to YouTube in August 2008. The group maintained a steady upload schedule for several years, but their profile only really took off after their “River” cover went viral in November 2017. Thunk A Cappella has now produced two videos with more than a million views, and have produced 13 other videos that hit six-figure view counts.