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Wednesday 2 august 2023

Scott Hoying of Pentatonix celebrates love, goes solo with debut

‘Parallel’

By JOHN RABY a time when the couple
Associated Press was supposed to attend an
During a two-month break event but ended up laying
in the a cappella group side by side on the floor of
Pentatonix ‘s world tour, the kitchen talking long into
baritone Scott Hoying be- the night. Hoying directed
came a newlywed. He also the song’s video, filmed
went out on his own, with in Iceland after Pentato-
his most personal music to nix had performed the last
date. show on its European Tour
The 31-year-old Grammy there in June.
winner sings from the heart Mark Hoying appears in the
about falling in love and videos for “Parallel” and
losing his best four-legged “Mars,” a single released
friend in his seven-track solo last September.Scott Hoy-
debut “Parallel,” which is ing also pays tribute to his
out Friday. dog that passed away in
Other members of Penta- “Bubs.”
tonix have released solo al- There’s also “King Kong,”
bums before, and going at about personal growth and
it alone is something Hoy- finding confidence, and
ing has thought about for “Trust Fall,” which “is about
many years, but with much diving into the scary, un-
hesitation. Singer-songwriter Scott Hoying poses for a portrait at his home, Friday, July 28, 2023, in Los Angeles. known parts of life. It’s only
Still, the process of finally Associated Press scary because we don’t
doing it has been thera- know what’s to come, but
peutic. It’s given Hoying and being more motivated tancing, the five-member a inspiring, and I ended up exciting. More like a ner-
an opportunity to fortify his than ever. And then I’m in cappella group laid down writing hundreds of songs,” vous butterfly,” he said.
creativity and build confi- love ... and I’ve just had a tracks separately, having Hoying said. And just like that, Hoying
dence. lot of personal growth over learned how to use digital Produced by Jon Levine, will be back on tour with
“I have always been a little the past couple of years. audio technology. Once four of the seven songs are Pentatonix when it starts a
bit scared to be vulnerable “It’s just like this really big Hoying became comfort- about love, including the North American leg of their
and kind of put myself out new chapter that’s start- able with the process, he title track “Parallel,” which tour in August.
there as a solo act,” Hoying ing. And it feels kismet and was captivated by it. He was released as a single in The group has been to-
told The Associated Press. amazing.” constantly watched tutori- June. gether since 2011. It began
“And I feel like this timing is The COVID-19 pandemic als on YouTube and it led “Parallel” is about Hoying’s with Hoying, tenor Mitch
just so perfect because I’m was an underlying reason to a flurry of personal song- relationship with his hus- Grassi and mezzo-soprano
entering this very beauti- for the project. Because writing. band, Mark, their shared Kirstin Maldonado as high
ful era of my life, like pro- Pentatonix couldn’t record The pandemic process qualities and being in sync school classmates in Arling-
ducing and making music together due to social dis- “was super energizing and with one another. It recalls ton, Texas. q

In her next book ‘Prequel,’ Rachel Maddow will explore

a WWII-era plot to overthrow U.S. government

NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel story and deep origins of this isn’t a brand new chal-
Maddow’s next book will any particular news event, lenge another sizeable
be an exploration into right- I also find it helpful to know chunk of Americans felt es-
wing extremism in the U.S., if we’ve previously con- sentially the same way in
including a plot to over- tended with something the lead-up to World War
throw the government at like what we’re seeing in II.” In “Prequel,” Maddow
the start of World War II. today’s news,” the Emmy- will describe anti-govern-
Crown, an imprint of Pen- winning MSNBC host, who ment actions involving a
guin Random House, an- discussed the book on “The Nazi agent, more than 20
nounced Monday that Rachel Maddow Show” members of Congress and
Maddow’s “Prequel: An on Monday night, said in the anti-Semitic America
American Fight Against a statement released by First Committee that led to
Fascism” will be published Crown. a 1944 sedition trial, which
Oct. 17. “Even though I find it dis- ended in a mistrial. Mad-
The book expands upon turbing and a little scary dow’s previous books in-
research for the liberal that, in our own time, some clude “Blowout: Corrupted
author-commentator’s MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel sizeable chunk of Ameri- Democracy, Rogue State
podcast “Rachel Maddow Maddow Show, moderates a panel, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at cans seem ready to jet- Russia, and the Richest,
Presents: Ultra,” for which a forum called “Perspectives on National Security,” at the John tison real elections and Most Destructive Industry
Steven Spielberg has ac- F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard instead embrace rule by on Earth” and “Drift: The
quired film rights. “Just as I University, in Cambridge, Mass. force, it’s somehow heart- Unmooring of American
like to dive into the back- Associated Press ening to me to know that Military Power.”q