Fatma almost at 4 Million Views!
3 Years since The Swingles’ collaboration with The Ayoub Sisters on Omar Khairat’s Fatma.
3 Years since The Swingles’ collaboration with The Ayoub Sisters on Omar Khairat’s Fatma; the music video has had almost 4 million views on Youtube.
Click below to watch.
Disney's Cruella - Hear The Swingles
Hear The Swingles with London Voices on Nicholas Britell’s original score.
If you haven’t yet seen Disney’s latest adaptation of 101 Dalmatians, Cruella, starring Emma Stone and Emma Thompson, it comes very highly recommended!
The Swingles were delighted to be asked to sing for Nicholas Britell’s original score with London Voices and you can hear them below.
Swingle Solo Challenge!
We’re super excited for the release of our collaborative project with Stay At Home Choir. You’re All I Need To Get By is a Motown classic with a message of love, togetherness and community for these tough times. We received more than a THOUSAND choir submissions, and the amazing SAHC team are currently working hard to stitch them all together into one epic video.
In the meantime, we’re inviting YOU to submit a short and soulful solo for our #swinglesolochallenge! We’ll be featuring a few of our favourites in the final video. We’ll also repost some of the most delightful submissions on our Instagram story, so make sure to follow @swinglesingers and look out for them.
This is open to anyone, whether you took part in the Stay At Home Choir submissions or not. Sing whatever you like: the main thing is to express yourself and have fun! Whether it’s R&B riffing, jazz scat, beatboxing… we’re up for all of it.
Full instructions on how to record and upload your video are below – we’re accepting entries via Dropbox until 23:00 (11pm) BST on Saturday 27 June.
We can’t wait to hear you!
How to submit
What do I need?
A smartphone
A device to play the guide track (e.g.computer or tablet)
Some headphones
Use the video below to submit your recording:
What do I do?
Plug your headphones into the device which is playing the guide track (this could be a computer, a tablet or even another smartphone!)
Hit record on your smartphone’s video camera.
Follow the audio instructions on the track in order to sync your singing with the rest of the track
Film yourself (in LANDSCAPE please) singing your solo along to the guide track. The main chord sequence goes around 3 times in total. Have fun and express yourself!
Label your video file in this format: “Swingle solo - Your Name - @instagramhandle” (e.g. Swingle solo - Jon Smith - @jonsmithmusic_). Don’t worry if you don’t have Instagram!
Upload it at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/fyBmO5hBZPxoUCezVQSj
The deadline for submissions is 23:00 (11pm) BST on Saturday 27 June.
If you’re also uploading your video to social media, please tag us @swinglesingers and use the hashtag #swinglesolochallenge
Please note: All submissions are bound by the Terms and Conditions of the Stay at Home Choir.
Meet Jamie, our new baritone!
We’d like to introduce you to the new baritone and vocal percussionist for The Swingles: Jamie Wright. We’ve had the pleasure of singing with Jamie at shows in the UK and Germany, and are so excited for the musicianship, groove, boundless energy and wealth of talents he brings to the group.
Jamie grew up in Norfolk and studied music at the University of York, before graduating from the Royal Academy of Music with a Masters in Vocal Performance. After leaving the Academy Jamie worked with Gareth Malone as an arranger and vocal coach for his shows The Naked Choir and Gareth’s Best in Britain. He later joined Gareth's choir ‘Voices’ for a UK tour and subsequent recordings. As a singer and conductor Jamie's projects have included: soloist / ensemble in a production of All the Angels at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, conductor of London Youth Choir Cambiata Boys Choir & Billericay Choral Society, bass at the Tower of London Chapels Royal, and numerous film and tv recordings with The Eric Whitacre Singers, Audio Network, and London Voices.
Jamie leads workshops for all ages exploring multiple genres, and has worked with Britten Sinfonia, Garsington Opera, Welsh National Opera, The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and The Sixteen. Recently Jamie has also developed his own music theory app, Muso.
He says: “Some of my earliest and favourite memories of singing in a cappella groups are of The Swingles' arrangements. The group has been an enormous inspiration to me since I first started singing and I’m so excited to join them!”
We know Jamie will be a brilliant asset to The Swingles as we embark on new projects in 2020, and we can’t wait for you to meet him.
