I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.
I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.
Enya is a very matriarchal musical force. Her music is very feminine and she layers her voice a lot. It leaks into my music secretly on the side. There's a lot of lush layers of my voice hiding in the cracks.
While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.
I think that the pivotal point of me in terms of the choral stuff is that I was involved in this provincial choir at 16 or 17. We went and played in churches and convention centres. The music we got to do was so inspiring for me.
There are probably limits on what the choir can sing well.
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
Church singing is a great training ground.
In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
I was in a choir at school and we were part of the BBC Proms back in around 2002.
What I learned about singing in the church has gone into what I do now.
Christmas and a cappella - what we learned really, really well is that they go extremely well together.
I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.
I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15.
I was a part of my school choir and used to participate in several singing competitions back then.
I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.
