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Q&A: Pentatonix Member Hails From Visalia, Ventures Into Folk Music

In 2011 the a cappella group Pentatonix won the third season of NBC’s show “The Sing Off.” Avi Kaplan, a bass in the group, is from Visalia and recently decided that he will be leaving the group. He’s also launched out on his own with a project called “ Avriel & the Sequoias ” and a new EP called ” Sage and Stone. ” FM89’s Ezra David Romero caught up with Kaplan on the station’s program Valley Edition. How did you get involved with Pentatonix? “I was asked to join the group when I was in college just kind of off of a whim. I joined the group and we auditioned for the show The Sing-Off. Then we won that show and then you know it just kept going and going and going. It was kind of a quick thing and you know I didn’t really expect it to go how it went, but I definitely did it was crazy ride.” What was that experience like? “It’s been surreal. Doing something that that I love that you know that is really seen as a risk to the rest of the world, being a musician. To have it be
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