Mike holds a BFA from New York University in Drama, having studied at the Stella Adler Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.
There he joined The Jazz Chords, a Festival Disney: Jazz Celebration recognized choir and his love for a cappella music was born. This led him to Cab Calloway School of the Arts High School where he devoted his studies to musical theatre, drama and vocal performance. Mike first became intrigued with the entertainment world at the age of 11 performing in community theatre.
Since joining Backtrack in 2015, Melissa has continued to write songs and wrote the group’s first original, “Love Me Sweetly.” She looks forward to continuing to hone her songwriting skills and expressing herself through music. In 2014, her original song, “Kill the Lights,” was runner-up for the Contemporary A Cappella Recording (CARA) award 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).
The group also placed third at the 2013 SoJam Competition. With the group, Melissa appeared multiple times at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) semi-final rounds. She continued singing a cappella in college, where she sang with Johns Hopkins University’s premiere a cappella group, Octopodes. During this time, she had the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall and served as Soprano I Section Leader. Melissa has been singing a cappella since high school, where she sang with Ridge High School’s award-winning A Cappella Choir in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. She has since expanded her creative pursuits into filmmaking Mallory wrote, directed and edited her own short film through the Manhattan Film Institute and has her own family video business called FamFlix.
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After college, Mallory completed the highly selective 9-month professional training program at Actors Theatre of Louisville during its 14/15 season and has performed in several NYC new play readings and workshops. During her time at NU she performed in numerous musicals and plays, directed a site-specific production, and served as a four-year member and Show Producer for X-Factors A Cappella. in Theatre with both musical theatre and marketing concentrations at Northwestern University. She went on to pursue acting and singing throughout middle and high school in Fort Worth, TX where, as a senior, she won the Betty Buckley Best Actress award for her role as Katharine in Kiss Me Kate. Mallory got the performing “bug” at the age of four when her parents enrolled her in classes and shows at an NYC hole-in-the-wall theater called New Media Repertory. They made a splash in the a cappella community by headlining at the Boston Sings festival and Camp A Cappella. Notable venues include Carnegie Hall, BB&T Pavilion and Beacon Theater. Their repertoire includes covers of past and present pop music, original compositions and unexpected genres such as classical and electronic music.īacktrack has taken the stage at venues across the nation, including concert halls, festivals, corporate events, schools, private functions and more. They infuse heart and humor into every performance and enhance their vocal-driven performances with guitar and vocal looping elements. Backtrack is an award-winning, five-person vocal group based in New York City that explores the power of the human voice through unique vocal arrangements, tight harmonies and world-class beatboxing.
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