Date Signed: June 2025
Label: Green Hill Music
Type of Music: A Cappella
Management: David Britz, Works Entertainment
Booking: Andrea Johnson, Wasserman Music
Publicity: Ashley White Public Relations
Web: sncmusic.com
Not since The Flying Pickets in the ‘80s has an a cappella group achieved so much, and bothered the charts to this degree. The nine voices of Straight No Chaser have sold three million albums worldwide, pulled in a billion streams on Pandora, and sold over 1.5 million concert tickets.
“This group formed in 1996 on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, IN,” says band member Steve Morgan. “We met through a show choir of just over 100 guys and girls, and we decided to get together to sing the music that we were listening and start an a cappella tradition at IU. This group was the starting point for a lot of the guys as writers and arrangers.”
Morgan says that the group’s sound has changed a lot since ‘96. “Honestly, I would contend that we have never sounded better. The addition of Freedom Young three years ago has really amped up the percussion (no offense to Tyler and Don intended) and top to bottom, I believe we can cover any style with a lot of flexibility in the voice parts to match the sound we want. If I was describing this as emotional well-being, I would say we’re in a good place.”
As they approach their 30th anniversary, Straight No Chaser have celebrated by signing with Green Hill.
“We were impressed with the Green Hill team from the first meeting, and we’ve long admired the roster of artists they’ve worked with over the years,” Morgan says. “Their commitment to timeless music resonated with us, so when the opportunity came along to join their roster, it felt like the right fit.”
The group is releasing a holiday album, Holiday Road, their first in five years. “We have once again put together a wide variety of styles, from classic songs to which we trimmed the tree with our families to religious carols to fun originals to unique collaborations with incredible guest artists, all with that signature Straight No Chaser twist,” Morgan says.
Looking ahead, Straight No Chaser has plenty planned for the coming months. “This summer, we did a second tour of songs from the 1990s, which was an absolute blast,” Morgan says. “So we have a couple final shows for that tour on the West Coast in September, and then we will turn our full attention to the Holiday Road tour. The second half of our shows in the fall always involve holiday music, but the first half is, as always, some of the best music of the last 80 years, so we are putting that show together.”
