Mitch Grassi

Mitch Coby Grassi
Born Mitchell Coby Michael Grassi
July 24, 1992
Occupation Musician
Home town Arlington, Texas

Musical career

Years active 2011-present

Mitchell Coby Michael Grassi[1] (born July 24, 1992),[2] known professionally as Mitch Grassi, is an American singer, songwriter and YouTube personality, most known for singing tenor in the a cappella group Pentatonix.[3] He also co-hosts the web-show Superfruit with fellow Pentatonix member Scott Hoying.

Life and career

Grassi performing with Pentatonix in 2013

Grassi grew up in Arlington, Texas. Grassi met Scott Hoying during a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stage play while in elementary school. While attending Martin High School, Grassi and Hoying met Kirstin "Kirstie" Maldonado. The three friends formed an acappella trio, posting their first cover of the Lady Gaga song, Telephone, to Youtube for a radio contest in which he sang alto.[4] Grassi is known as a counter-tenor, which is a male who can sing higher than the average tenor. Mitch made the TMEA All-State Choir three times during his high school career. In 2011, the trio, with the addition of Avi Kaplan and Kevin Olusola, formed the acappella group Pentatonix and won NBC's The Sing-Off.[5] Since the band's winning of The Sing-Off, they have released three full length albums,[6] one of which has gone platinum.[7] Grassi is also working in producing electronic music.[8]


Scott Hoying (left) and Mitch Grassi (right); Superfruit

In August 2013,[9] Grassi and Scott Hoying created a webshow called Superfruit. Grassi and Hoying release a Superfruit video every Tuesday, and currently have over 1 million subscribers[10] and well over 95,000,000 views.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ Liberty, John. "Pentatonix Q&A: Mitchell C. Grassi talks about the group's YouTube success, new album". MLive.com. MLive. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Grassi, Mitch. "Mitch Grassi on Twitter - "@skylarkeleven July 24th. Yours?"". twitter.com/MitchGrassi. Mitch Grassi. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Jones, Darianna. "Bold & Sugar Interviews Mitch Grassi of Pentatonix: "Don’t Be Afraid to Be Different"". BoldAndSugar.com. Bold and Sugar. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  4. ↑ DeRosa, Nicole. "Q&A with Mitch Grassi of acappella Group, PENTATONIX Talks: New Album, Starring in The Movie, PITCH PERFECT 2, Getting A Shout Out from Beyonce and More!". Music.AllAcess.com. All Access. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Snetiker, Marc. "Pentatonix: 5 members, 1 hour, 37 questions". EW.com. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Yahr, Emily. "Who are Pentatonix and why is their Christmas album so popular?". WashingtonPost.com. Washington Post. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Pentatonix. "Pentatonix Facebook post: "We cannot believe we get to say this, but... when the official charts come out tomorrow, #ThatsChristmasToMe will have officially gone PLATINUM!!! Thank you SO much to the (more than one) million people who bought our holiday album and for letting us share our music with you. We can't we for y'all to see (and hear) what's next! heart emoticon PTX"". facebook.com/Pentatonix. Pentatonix. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Pentatonix. "Bio". PTXofficial.com. Pentatonix. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  9. ↑ Superfruit. "AN INTRO TO SUPERFRUIT". youtube.com/channel/UC9yXFuNnghsUHU6OpGg_MGA. Superfruit. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  10. ↑ Superfruit. "Superfruit on Facebook: "To celebrate ONE MILLION subscribers... tomorrow we're going to be doing our FIRST live stream at 6pm PT!!!!!! bit.ly/SuperfruitLiveStream"". facebook.com/Scomiche. Superfruit. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  11. ↑ YouTube. "Superfruit - About". YouTube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 16 March 2015.