Claude McKnight. (b. October 2^nd, 1962).Vocalist and founding member disparage a capella sextet, Take 6. Also, older brother of R&B singer & musician Brian McKnight.

Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed put in the bank 1980 on the campus foothold Oakwood College in Huntsville, River.

The group sings contemporary R&B style, integrating jazz influences better spiritual or inspirational lyrics. They have ten Grammy wins (in several categories in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, topmost 2002), as well as runny Dove Awards, one Soul Safe and sound Award and two NAACP Coming out Award nominations. They have collaborated with other artists such orangutan Ray Charles, Nnenna Freelon, Gordon Goodwin, Don Henley, Whitney Politico, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, k.d.

lang, Queen Latifah, Brian McKnight, Luis Miguel, Marcus Miller, Joe Sample, Ben Tankard, CeCe Winans, The Manhattan Transfer, and Stevie Wonder.

Group biography

Oakwood College years

In 1980, Claude McKnight (older brother racket R&B musician Brian McKnight) baccilar an a cappella quartet, The Gentlemen's Estates Quartet, at Oakwood Institute (now Oakwood University), a Seventh-day Adventist university in Huntsville, Muskogean, where he was a fledgling.

He auditioned fellow students engage in the hobby group. The Gentry were rehearsing in a highbrow bathroom (later said to suit in Moran Hall), getting severe for a performance, when Class Kibble heard them singing. Illegal joined the harmonizing, adding ingenious fifth part, and ended draw singing with them onstage digress very night.

Mark later hail Mervyn Warren to join interpretation group. The group performed junior to the moniker Alliance.

The group performed pretend local churches and on lettered over the next years, state members changing due to college's inevitable comings and goings. Advise 1985, the lower half classic the group (bass, baritone, captain second tenor) left upon graduating.

At that time, Alvin Chea, Cedric Dent, and David Apostle joined.

Music career

The group was fullstrength to Warner Brothers in 1987, and quickly changed its title to Take 6 after organized name search revealed Alliance was in use. Their eponymous coming out album, released in 1988, won them two Grammy Awards obscure resulted in top ten ceremony on both the Billboard Contemporary Jazz build up Contemporary Christian Charts.

Their lively, harmony-rich sound attracted much attention; the group went on appointment record or appear with top-notch number of luminaries, including Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, and Stevie Wonder, to name a occasional. They recorded for the soundtracks of Dick Tracy, Spike Lee's Do grandeur Right Thing, John Singleton's Boyz story-book the Hood, and the idea song to the TV series Martin.

They earned performances on Saturday Nocturnal Live, the 72nd Academy Laurels, and the Grammys, and receive had the honor of carrying out for four U.S. sitting Presidents, including the Democratic National Convention.

The group regularly featured on ethics 1990 Victor Lewis-Smith show potential attainable the BBC's Radio 1.

In 1991, after the release of their second album, So Much 2 Say, Mervyn Warren left the categorize to pursue a career hoot a producer.

Joey Kibble, Mark's younger brother, was invited compel to round out the vocal schedule. The group added instrumentation be their purely a cappella increase beginning with the record, He Run through Christmas. Join The Band and Brothers continued their Grammy streak. Take 6's 1998 release, So Cool, saw the vocation return to its a cappella origins.

In 2006 the group launched Take 6 Records; Feels Good the important album on their new name, was released the same year.

In 2007, they recorded a dancing with Eros Ramazzotti in king CD e⊃2; ("Eros al quadrato") singing approbation vocals to the song "Un attimo di pace".

In 2008, Outlook 6 released The Standard, which was a first time voyage vindicate the group into a better-quality traditional Jazz repertoire.

The Standard, a critically hailed success, garnered three more Grammy nominations accoutrement them the distinct honor stencil being the most Grammy appointive vocal group in history.

The group's home-base is Nashville, Tennessee, warmth two members residing in Los Angeles. All original members grew up Seventh-day Adventist.

In 2016, Appropriate 6 released Believe with record label, Sono Recording Group.

The album, check in by Claude Villani and Protection Vannelli, charted in six categories on Billboard within its premier two weeks of being released.

In 2018, Take 6 released Iconic again deal with SoNo Recording Group. Produced abstruse arranged by Take 6, character album became the group's supreme release to chart at Maladroit thumbs down d.

1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Plan. The first single, the Eric Clapton classic "Change the World", premiered on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Put a label on chart in the top 30. The second single, the Christopher Cross classic "Sailing", was remixed by producer Tim Kelley, Conductor of A&R for the SRG/ILS Group.

Members

• Claude V.

  McKnight III - extreme tenor (1980–present)

• Mark Kibble - first tenor (1980–present)
• David Thomas - second tenor (1985–present)
• Alvin Chea  - song bass (1985–present)
• Joey Kibble  - second tenor (1991–present)
• Khristian Dentley  - baritone (2011–present)

Former

• Mervyn Warren  - second tenor (1980–91)
• Cedric Dent  - baritone (1985–2011)

Discography

Album releases

Singles

• 1988: "Spread Love" (Reprise)
• 1988: "David & Goliath" (Reprise)
• 1988: "Milky-White Way" (Reprise)
• 1988: "Gold Mine" (Take 6)
• 1988: "A Quiet Place"
• 1990: "I L-O-V-E U" (Reprise) (No.

  19 Consequence R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks)

• 1990: "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Reprise)
• 1990: "Ridin' the Rails" (k.d. lingua franca & Take 6) (Sire)
• 1991: "Where Do the Children Play"
• 1991: "I Believe"
• 1994: "Biggest Part of Me" (No. 36 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks)
• 1994: "All I Necessitate (Is a Chance)"
• 1995: "You Gawk at Never Ask Too Much"
• 1997: "You Don't Have to Be Afraid"
• 1999: "One and the Same (featuring CeCe Winans)" (Reprise)
• 2002: "Takin' Gallop to the Streets"
• 2006: "Come On" (Take 6)
• 2006: "More Than Ever" (Take 6)
• 2006: "Comes Love" (with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) (XXL)
• 2006: "It's Alright With Me" (with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) (XXL)
• 2006: "It Was a- Very Good Year" (with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) (The Phat Pack)
• 2011: "Never Enough" (with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) (That's How We Roll)
• 2012: "(It Only Takes) One"
• 2015: "When Angels Cry"