SHARP

SHARP All Male A Cappella

SHARP All Male A Cappella is the newest a cappella group at Columbia University, officially founded on October 16, 2011 by sophomores Danny Murcia and Zach Vargas-Sullivan.

History

SHARP was unofficially founded outside of Wallach Hall on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus in mid-September of 2011. Founders Danny Murcia and Zach Vargas-Sullivan were having their typical 2am pow-wow after a rather exhausting rehearsal with their then a Cappella group. But this time their pow-wow wasn’t all fun and games as was typical for these two gents. That night, the two sophomores decided it was time to part ways with their current group to develop something new and fill an a Cappella void on Columbia’s campus. They had no idea what they were about to get themselves into, but they established two basic principles that would guide this new group: 1) the ensemble would be all male and 2) the group would be stellar, giving all the premier a Cappella groups on Columbia’s campus a run for their money. This new group of theirs would not specialize in a particular musical genre, as was common of CU a Cappella groups at the time. The gentlemen of SHARP (as it would come to be called) would be the premier voice for a Cappella music on Columbia’s campus, focusing their time learning and perfecting songs from every musical genre. But apart from these lofty goals, they didn’t really have much of a plan. No name. No members. No anything. But before the night was through, they immediately got to work calling and emailing friends and untapped singers asking them to come along for the ride.