Covers of songs by Earth, Wind & Fire, Maxwell, Al Green, Michael Jackson and Lynyrd Skynyrd will appear on the self-titled debut album from the gospel-rooted a capella group Committed, winner of the second season of NBC’s “The Sing-Off.”
“We wanted to be true to who we are,” the group’s Therry Thomas tells Billboard.com. “We’re singers who love a capella music and singers who happen to be Christian. Christian music is inspirational. It’s love music. We wanted to have an album with real-life music. Christians go through breakups and love and all that stuff. We just wanted it to be real, and to not offend anybody.”
Due Aug. 30, “Committed” will include the Alabama sextet’s rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Hold My Hand” that it performed during “The Sing-Off.” [Watch performance below.] Other covers include Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings,” Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and “a new spin” on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.”
“We’re just trying to pay homage to our home state,” Thomas says. “We’ve been living in Huntsville the last six years, so we also wanted to pay tribute to our supporters from there. It was a lot of fun. It’s a nice new spin to an old song.”
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