The Barberettes (Korean: 바버렛츠) is a South Korean retro, doo-wop feminine group that debuted in 2014 as a trio, and is predicated in Seoul. With their covers and authentic music, they reproduce the sound of the 50s-60s music, and are known as a time slip lady group who journey again to the occasions of barbershop music and harmonizing lady teams. The group consists of Shinae An Wheeler (Korean: 안신애) and Seon (or Sunnie) Lee Kyeong (Korean: 이경선). In 2019 The Barberettes and Candy Sorrow kind a concord collab group SBSB (Korean: 스바스바).
The group began singing, as a trio, for enjoyable in October 2012, when Wheeler had the concept of making a retro-inspired lady group. Wheeler and Grace Kim had been already singing solo for a similar jazz band, and Park started taking vocal classes from Wheeler. They carried out at quite a lot of locations, together with the indie music venues within the Hongdae space close to Hongik College in Seoul, and for audiences of the older Korean technology, releasing their first album on Might 27, 2014.
The identify “Barberettes” was chosen as a result of they needed to call themselves after the a cappella barbershop music model, hoping to make use of a reputation like “Barbershop Quartet”, however missing a fourth member, they added the suffix “ettes”, like many lady teams of the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties.
They usually use one microphone for performances,initially to mimic that period’s lady teams, however later realizing the benefit once they discovered they may hear one another higher, which helped them management the concord stability. In addition they use costumes, make-up and choreography to re-create the impact.
