what's Barbershop?" Anna's mother, Britt-Helene Bonnedahl, Master director of International medalist chorus Ronninge Show Chorus, became the quartet's coach and mentor. Naima & Suzanne immediately replied: "Sure, but. They asked their respective classmates, Naima & Suzanne if they would be interested in singing in a Barbershop quartet. Anna's & Malin's mothers sang together in a quartet called "The Beautiful Screamers" and the young daughters thought it would be fun to start a quartet of their own. All four girls were 11 years old at the time, hence the name Growing Girls. Growing Girls formed on January 5th, 1979 in Ronninge, Sweden. Personal and family reasons made it impossible to keep up their busy show schedule, and Susan Ives left the quartet in 2000. And after finally attaining the top prize in 1998, the quartet says that preparation and learning to take a risk was the key to success. Perceived as restrained by many judges, the foursome learned to let their hair down at the 1996 contest and earned second place medals. They placed ninth in 1991 and sixth at each international contest from 1992 through 1995. Gaining confidence with each succeeding contest, and following their coach's advice, the quartet qualified again for international competition. Although each member had extensive experience singing with other quartets as well as one another, their performance at the 1990 international contest was disappointing. The foursome organized just nine months prior to the 1990 Sweet Adelines competition in Salt Lake City, winning their regional competition and making them eligible to compete on the international stage in Salt Lake that same year. The awards are given by the Contemporary Society of America (CASA).ġ998 International Championship Quartet Sweet Adelines International Classic Edition's journey to the championship began seven years before their win, in the same city. The award was for their 1991 recording, I Hear a Rhapsody.
Ambiance was named first runner-up in the 1992 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards in the category of best recording by an unsigned professional. It is fortunate that the quartet's unforgettable Fats Waller package, and their impressive vocal gymnastics on Rhapsody of New York (an adaptation of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue), are preserved on cassette and CD.
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It was their first international competition and it has been said that they owned the stage - everyone knew this was no ordinary quartet.Īmbiance soon became a Sweet Adeline legend, maintaining a full performance schedule for the next nine years before retiring in 1995 with a sold-out, farewell concert at New York's famed Carnegie Hall. With a new bass, the members of Ambiance were as astounded as everyone else when they won the 1986 international quartet championship just six months later. This six-month-old quartet won its regional competition in the spring of 1986 and lost its bass immediately afterward.
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