When not performing with Backtrack, you can find her teaching voice, dance, musical theatre and a cappella classes at Gateway to the Arts in Denville, NJ. She has had residencies in Europa Park, Germany as well as Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA throughout the Halloween and Christmas seasons. Post graduation, Chrissy went on to work professionally in the musical theatre and a cappella world. As Assistant Music Director and featured soloist of the group, Vocal Point placed 3rd in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Finals and was featured on numerous compilation albums such as BOCA and Voices Only. Chrissy went on to receive her Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Delaware where she studied classical music and sang with award-winning a cappella group, Vocal Point. Immediately hooked into the world of musical theatre, she has been belting out and awakening neighbors everywhere with her rendition of "Defying Gravity". When Melissa is not traveling with Backtrack, she enjoys spending time with family including her husband Sean, and two cats, Arnold and Molly.Ĭhrissy is a New Jersey native who got her start singing in church choir at the age of 9. Outside of a cappella, Melissa has continued writing originals, and in 2021 she released her debut EP, "Lullabye," - check it out on all streaming platforms. One of which, "Kill the Lights," was runner-up for the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Association awards (CARA) for Best Original by a Scholastic Group and was featured on the compilation, "Sing 11: One Louder," produced by the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA).
Melissa's interest for songwriting began her senior year when she wrote two songs for the group’s all-original album. Her passion grew stronger at Johns Hopkins University where she sang with the school's coed competitive a cappella group, Octopodes. Melissa's interest in a cappella began in the choral program at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. She joined the group in 2015 when it was transitioning from a purely online-entity to a full-time touring group. Melissa is a singer, songwriter, and managing member of Backtrack. They offer school assemblies, workshops with choirs, and clinics on topics including beatboxing, group vocal improvisation and DIY music video production. Backtrack has conducted educational programs at hundreds of schools nationally and internationally, from elementary assemblies to college level workshops as well as a cappella camps both here in the US and internationally. Backtrack took to the international festival stage when they performed as a headliner at the Bridgefest stage in Da Nang, Vietnam in August of 2022.īacktrack's outreach programs for young aspiring artists are an extremely important part of their mission.
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Backtrack has appeared on NBC, FOX, PBS, Steve Harvey's daytime show "STEVE!", and Broadway's "Kinky Boots," and HBO's "PAUSE with Sam Jay." They also won New York's Got Talent Season 6 in 2019 and made their movie debut in “A Ring for Christmas” in December 2020. Backtrack got its start on YouTube in 2013, where the group has now amassed over 100,000 subscribers and 12 million views across their channel. They infuse heart and humor into every performance and their versatile repertoire which covers Top 40, Motown, classical, show tunes, original music, and more, to ensure that there is something for everyone.
Their exciting arrangements transform familiar tunes and showcase the top-notch vocal and beatboxing abilities of all of the members. The group takes the stage nationally and internationally at performing arts centers, corporate events, music festivals, schools and more. Backtrack Vocals is a 5-person a cappella group based out of New York City.
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