Randi Stanley's RARB Bio

I'm a terrible a cappella junkie. I have a hard time listening to any song without mentally envisioning what it might sound like arranged for an a cappella group. I rarely sing along to leads of songs and get lots of stares when "jen-do-wa-ing" down the streets of Manhattan. I shouldn't wear headphones as often as I do.

I've been singing in a cappella groups since 1992, starting with a high school group, then onto Significant Others at Northwestern University, where I directed and produced the group's first two CDs. Here in NYC, I sang with a group called Treble and co-produced their second album. My current a cappella group is The Sirens, a group of 8 women who fortunately are also great friends of mine. Our first CD, "PreMusical Syndrome" was released in June 2007.

In my former life, I worked at Sony Music and BMG, before they were the mammoth co-label they are today. Specifically I worked at RCA Victor Group (classical, world, jazz, reissues) and at Sony 'did my time' in the Copyright department. I also worked at Varsity Vocals as a producer. After Northwestern, I received a master's in Music Business at NYU. Currently, I'm a freelance writer and have turned my a cappella habit into a part-time career. I started the a cappella arranging company NYC A Cappella in September 2006. It's so rare to have a job that you love doing every day, and I'm so lucky to have found one. I'm also a new Mom to a little, sweet alto! Short-term goals for my arranging career are: to have an arrangement appear on a group's CD that I'm not a member of, have an arrangement reviewed by RARB on said CD(s) (double check, both happening this year), write an original a cappella song, and appear on an a cappella compilation. Oh yeah - and win a Grammy. And the Pulitzer.

Reviews by Randi Stanley

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	Bare Naked Statues (St. Louis University) (Saint Louis University) - ...Pitches [26 Jul 2008]
	Note-oriety (James Madison University) - Bettin' High [26 Jun 2008]
	AACI - Sing IV: Good Medicine [05 May 2008]
	The Midnight Ramblers (University of Rochester) - Manifesto! [26 Mar 2008]
	The Sil'hooettes (University of Virginia) - Sauce [01 Mar 2008]
	Legacy - Legacy [24 Oct 2007]
	Xtension Chords (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Creative Outlet [12 Oct 2007]
	Home Free - From the Top [08 Oct 2007]
	Chi Rho (Wake Forest University) - Here Is What I Know Now [15 Sep 2007]
	Ladies In Red (North Carolina State University) - Retrospection [13 Sep 2007]
	Basix - Star People [11 Sep 2007]
	Penn Masala (University of Pennsylvania) - Pehchaan [23 Aug 2007]
	Juxtaposition (Virginia Tech) - Anomaly [21 Aug 2007]
	Quintessence - The Joy of Six [10 Jul 2007]
	Halogen - Depths [01 Jul 2007]
	Transit - Transit [27 Jun 2007]
	The Colgate Resolutions - Off The Record [23 Jun 2007]
	Blue Lights (Colby College) - Copyright Infringement [30 Jan 2000]
	Spirit - The Gift of...Lullabyes, Lollipops & Love [08 Jan 2000]
	Everyday People (Stanford University) - EP JONES [03 Dec 1999]
	Various Artists - Hot Lips: The Vocal Band Sampler [25 Nov 1999]
	Spirit - Un-Plugged Holiday Music [21 Nov 1999]
	Spirit - Christmas A Cappella Music, Volume One [20 Oct 1999]
	spiralmouth - spiralmouth [29 Sep 1999]
	Spirit - Holiday A Cappella Music For Children [29 Sep 1999]
	VoiceMale (Brandeis University) - malestrom [06 Aug 1999]
	Chattertocks (Brown University) - Aire [27 Jul 1999]
	The EDLOS - A Cappella Country [15 Jul 1999]
	Ball in the House - Ball in the House [06 Jul 1999]
	Mosaic Whispers (Washington University) - Don't Tell My Parents [18 Jun 1999]
	Schrödinger's Cat - Big Beat A Cappella [09 Jun 1999]
	The Amalgamates (Tufts University) - Grandma's Camper [11 May 1999]
	The Stanford Mendicants (Stanford University) - Besides What You See [08 Apr 1999]
	Jabberwocks (Brown University) - Sermons and Soda Water [30 Mar 1999]
	The Amateurs (Washington University) - The Little Blue CD [24 Feb 1999]
	Counterparts (University of Pennsylvania) - High Dive [28 Jan 1999]
	Ball in the House - Love Drug [25 Nov 1998]
	Acoustix - Stars & Stripes [22 Nov 1998]
	Acoustix - The New Science of Sound [22 Nov 1998]
	Akafist - The Russian Male Chamber Choir - Masterpieces of Orthodox Spirituality II [09 Nov 1998]
	Acoustix - Jazz, Jazz, Jazz [13 Sep 1998]
	Everyday People (Stanford University) - 2648 West Grand Blvd [13 Sep 1998]
	Artists in Resonance (UC Berkeley) - AIR [13 Sep 1998]
	Western Wind Vocal Ensemble - My Funny Valentine: Classic American Love Songs, 1920-1990 [09 Sep 1998]
	Pieces of 8 - Hook, Line & Sinker [15 Jul 1998]

55 total reviews including 10 reviews from before May 1998, which predate our database and are not listed here.