Jevan Soo's RARB Bio

So I'm Jevan. I graduated from Harvard in June 2001 and am currently working in Shanghai managing recruiting strategy in Asia for McKinsey & Company, a big consulting corporate machine.

My road to a cappella was somewhat of a chance encounter. I grew up as an instrumental musician, playing anything and everything (including piano, violin, marimba, tenor and bari sax, and clarinet) at different intervals until I graduated high school, and participating in concert bands, marching bands, orchestras, jazz and pit bands, etc. etc. etc! Singing was something limited to the shower, the car, and the choruses of a few high school musicals.

Upon arriving at Harvard, I was blown away by my first encounter with the Opportunes, our oldest coed a cappella group. I tried out for them on a complete whim and after several callbacks later, found myself in way over my head. And here I am years later, unable to play any instruments anymore and a marginally better singer. While in the Opportunes, I was business manager, tour manager (organizing our first trip to Hawaii), treasurer, and arranged a bunch of songs in between. Unfortunately since graduation, the singing has been relegated to the shower and the car again, much to the pleasure/chagrin of my roommates and friends.

My musical tastes are fairly eclectic and range from respectable musicians (Sting, Bjork) to complete guilty pleasures (e.g., Z100 or 103.5 for NYC residents). But think heavy on the pop and R&B side, with a nice dosage of world music (Angelique Kidjo, Suphala), folk (Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy), whiny rockers (Death Cab, Snow Patrol), and old-school/neo-soul (Aretha, John Legend) to spice it up.

Future plans are up in the air, but some up for consideration include human capital management, grad school, doing the starving artist thing, and becoming a surf bum in Australia. Since they're all equally likely at this point, feel free to drop me some input!

Reviews by Jevan Soo

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	Great Northern Union Chorus - It's a Grand Night for Singing [20 Mar 2008]
	Rhythm & Blue (Duke University) - Punch a Higher Floor [25 Feb 2008]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - The Empty Set [04 Feb 2008]
	The Bobs - Get Your Monkey Off My Dog [15 Jan 2008]
	Chattertocks (Brown University) - Play On [25 Nov 2007]
	After Dark (Washington University) - Eclipse [31 Oct 2007]
	Hyannis Sound - Shirt, Tie, Khaki [28 Oct 2007]
	The Amateurs (Washington University) - mmm...Pie! [22 Oct 2007]
	Jackson Jills (Tufts University) - Don't Try This In Heels [04 Oct 2007]
	The Dear Abbeys (Boston University) - Sincerely, Lost in Boston [05 Sep 2007]
	Penn Masala (University of Pennsylvania) - Pehchaan [23 Aug 2007]
	Maybebop - Superheld [02 Aug 2007]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - Bombtracks: Best of 1997-2006 [27 Jul 2007]
	Halogen - Depths [01 Jul 2007]
	Transit - Transit [27 Jun 2007]
	Vocal Point (University of Rochester) - Game Face [01 Jun 2007]
	AACI - Sing 3: Mélange a Trois [05 May 2007]
	Faith in Action - Faith in Action Live [21 Apr 2007]
	Exit 245 (James Madison University) - Barbershop Tragedy [17 Apr 2007]
	Hoos In Treble (University of Virginia) - Amped [24 Mar 2007]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - Kenophobia [03 Mar 2007]
	Dischord (University of Pennsylvania) - Loving Every Minute [25 Feb 2007]
	The Amalgamates (Tufts University) - Baggage Claim [21 Feb 2007]
	Bathtub Dogs (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - Outloud [16 Jan 2007]
	Low Key (James Madison University) - Long Time Comin' [30 Dec 2006]
	Grains of Time (North Carolina State University) - True [17 Dec 2006]
	Boston College Dynamics (Boston College) - Public Displays of A Cappella [07 Dec 2006]
	Nothin' but Treble (Georgia Tech) - Caught Red Handed [04 Dec 2006]
	SoCal VoCals (University of Southern California) - Get in. ROCK. Get out. [27 Nov 2006]
	Freshman Fifteen (Northwestern University) - Game Time [22 Nov 2006]
	Out of the Dawg House (Butler University) - On Track [20 Nov 2006]
	Testimony (Stanford University) - Accelerate [16 Nov 2006]
	Note-oriety (James Madison University) - Fusion [19 Oct 2006]
	UGA Accidentals - 14 and Change [15 Oct 2006]
	Vox One - Pure Imagination [30 Sep 2006]
	Ascending Height - Turn It Up [11 Sep 2006]
	Brown Sugar (Northwestern University) - Rhythm Room [06 Aug 2006]
	Tizmoret (Queens College) - Decade [10 Jul 2006]
	The Royal 8 - My Saviour, First Of All [06 Jul 2006]
	Kaskeset (Binghamton University) - Drop It Like It's Treif [07 Jun 2006]
	Cosmos - Ticu un viss/ I believe and that`s it [28 May 2006]
	The Dear Abbeys (Boston University) - Abbeys Road [20 May 2006]
	Maybebop - Immer für Dich da! [16 May 2006]
	Stanford Raagapella (Stanford University) - Raags to Riches [28 Apr 2006]
	The Bobs - Rhapsody in Bob [26 Apr 2006]
	On the Rocks (University of Oregon) - Full Coverage [10 Apr 2006]
	Boston College Acoustics (Boston College) - Fake Instruments [11 Mar 2006]
	Chattertocks (Brown University) - NOW That's What I Call Chattertocks [03 Mar 2006]
	AACI - Sing 2: Eclectic Boogaloo [01 Mar 2006]
	Maybebop - Weihnacht [31 Dec 2005]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - Float [30 Dec 2005]
	Shades (Yale University) - Sankofa [27 Dec 2005]
	Harmonettes (University of Michigan) - A New Rendition [13 Dec 2005]
	Cosmos - Pa un par (On And About) [09 Dec 2005]
	Hyannis Sound - Route 6 [02 Nov 2005]
	The Earth Tones (University at Albany) - Maybe We Shouldn't [28 Oct 2005]
	Academical Village People (University of Virginia) - Academical is Not a Word [27 Sep 2005]
	Antioch Chamber Ensemble - Winter Songs [21 Sep 2005]
	Sympathetic Vibrations (Georgia Tech) - Techtonic [07 Sep 2005]
	Aural Pleasure (Emory University) - Steady the Wheel [19 Aug 2005]
	The Madison Project - The Khaki Album [17 Aug 2005]
	Penn Masala (University of Pennsylvania) - The Brown Album [30 Jul 2005]
	Four Shadow - Four [09 Jul 2005]
	Great Northern Union Chorus - Bound For Glory [07 Jul 2005]
	TR Griffin - Eternity [03 Jul 2005]
	Octopodes (Johns Hopkins University) - Shot Of Blue [01 Jul 2005]
	Germantown Friends School A Cappella (Germantown Friends School) - Soup [11 Jun 2005]
	Apes&Babes - Rå [19 Apr 2005]
	Amazin' Blue (University of Michigan) - Self-Titled [29 Mar 2005]
	The Amalgamates (Tufts University) - Stopping For Breakfast [12 Mar 2005]
	The Swingle Singers - Mood Swings [10 Mar 2005]
	Jackson Jills (Tufts University) - Headcase [13 Feb 2005]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - Burn Like a Roman Candle [06 Feb 2005]
	Maybebop - Heisse Luft [27 Jan 2005]
	muSix - Everything We Want [24 Dec 2004]
	The Bobs - Best of the Bobs: 20 Songs, 20 Years [21 Dec 2004]
	T Minus 5 - Purity [22 Nov 2004]
	Up the Octave (Brandeis University) - UTOpia [09 Oct 2004]
	The Amateurs (Washington University) - Amateurity [26 Sep 2004]
	The UNCG Spartones (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) - BULLETPROOF [20 Sep 2004]
	ManSound - If It's Magic [12 Aug 2004]
	AACI - Sing - A Vocal Explosion [05 Jun 2004]
	Jackson Jills (Tufts University) - Out of the Red [30 May 2004]
	Aural Pleasure (Emory University) - Tell Me When [18 Mar 2004]
	Mass Transit (New York University) - Mass Transit [14 Mar 2004]
	Amazin' Blue (University of Michigan) - South U and State [24 Jan 2004]
	Eclipse - Three Kings [10 Jan 2004]
	ManSound - Slavic Roots [07 Jan 2004]
	Penn Masala (University of Pennsylvania) - Soundcheck [07 Dec 2003]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - More Screaming [17 Nov 2003]
	Chattertocks (Brown University) - All Modesty Aside [24 Oct 2003]
	Boston College Acoustics (Boston College) - Vintage Denim [15 Oct 2003]
	Halogen - Halogenesis [06 Oct 2003]
	On the Rocks (University of Oregon) - The Backgammon Sessions [19 Sep 2003]
	Germantown Friends School A Cappella (Germantown Friends School) - 440 [15 Sep 2003]
	Rescue - The Difference [18 Jun 2003]
	The Madison Project - Rock Star [14 Jun 2003]
	On the Rocks (University of Oregon) - OTR [07 Jun 2003]
	Harmonytryx - Fine Whine [25 May 2003]
	WIBI - In the Pocket [31 Mar 2003]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - Take One [28 Jan 2003]
	Grains of Time (North Carolina State University) - UNION [31 Dec 2002]
	Eclipse - Think Twice [29 Dec 2002]
	The Amalgamates (Tufts University) - Bamboo [14 Dec 2002]
	AKSARA - Gently Enter [12 Dec 2002]
	Octappella - Motion [14 Nov 2002]
	The Amateurs (Washington University) - The Bristol Sessions [07 Nov 2002]
	Rescue - The First Christmas [31 Oct 2002]
	DJ Nati - Lip Session [23 Oct 2002]
	Hookslide - Original Spin [09 Sep 2002]
	The Swingle Singers - Live in Japan [18 Aug 2002]
	Maybebop - Auf die Ohren [12 Aug 2002]
	Mezzo Macho - In the Whyland [08 Aug 2002]
	The Virginia Gentlemen (University of Virginia) - Turning [07 Aug 2002]
	The 18 Wheelers (The Wheeler School) - Here We Go [05 Aug 2002]
	Eclipse - Once [11 Jul 2002]
	The Amateurs (Washington University) - Pieces of Flair [04 Jun 2002]
	Four His Glory - Will You Love Jesus More? [30 May 2002]
	The Bufftones/Double Treble - The Best of GFS A Cappella, 1995-2001 [10 May 2002]
	Four Shadow - Flake [22 Feb 2002]
	Aural Pleasure (Emory University) - Lend an Ear [29 Dec 2001]
	Off the Beat (University of Pennsylvania) - Off the Beat [28 Dec 2001]
	Penn Masala (University of Pennsylvania) - 11 PM [11 Jul 2001]
	Various Artists - Sweet Adelines' Best [09 Jun 2001]
	Group 7 - Songs [02 May 2001]
	The Amalgamates (Tufts University) - Juice [10 Apr 2001]
	Carol Ponder - Little Journeys: A Cappella Ballads and Folk Songs [26 Mar 2001]
	Jackson Jills (Tufts University) - Snapshot [23 Feb 2001]
	Dartmouth Aires (Dartmouth College) - Interplanetairey [20 Feb 2001]
	Amazin' Blue (University of Michigan) - Raising the Bar [15 Feb 2001]

130 total reviews