The highlight of this experience for me was just the process each week as we
went
and practiced songs and were able to bring that into a really polished state for each
week's performance.
I mean, that was quite an accomplishment for us. Toward the end of our time on the
sing-off, we would
get together as a group and sit down in a circle
and in 20 minutes, we'd have the foundation
for a really good piece. And then it was just tweaking and,
you know, rearranging from there. But I got really impressed with how
our ability to arrange as a group improved over time.
Probably my favorite experience when the show start air was
receiving a picture message on my phone from a friend of mine.
The picture was of this little boy who I don't know, I've never met him in my life,
but for Halloween, he dressed up as me. He put on a blue shirt, yellow tie, and
had black glasses on and
and was proudly advertising that he was McKay from Vocal Point.
As far as my dad's passing goes, I feel like
the show was, you know, in some ways a wonderful opportunity to be able to
share our beliefs.
So, you know, like I've kind of mentioned before, I don't know why those
things happen or,
you know, why my dad would pass away in the middle of this show, but it certainly gave a
great form for us to be able to share
a message that I think Vocal Point is centered around and that's,
you know, not only to bring happiness but also the message of the gospel and how
that's
central to our personal beliefs. So one of my friends, he's a convert to the church,
and his family wasn't super friendly towards, you know,
his joining of the church and what he believes, but
since watching "The Sing Off",
Vocal Point has become one of their favorite groups and they became a lot more friendly
towards the Church in and what we believe. It's been really cool for us to
read things online and hear things from people who aren't
members of our church that have felt something special with Vocal Point and
something different that they can't quite understand or put their finger
on.
We know what that is, but it's really cool to know they're feeling something
different when they watch Vocal Point. Looking back,
I feel really blessed
to have been able to be part of such a wonderful
production and such an experience. I remember
when we got out, we got backstage and we were doing the
post-show interviews and all the cameras were rolling and they had all of the
producers there and the choreographers and music producers and then
the costumers and everyone we had worked with for the last two months and
it got really emotional, not so much because we have lost anything,
you know, the prize money or anything, but because
the whole experience was just so incredible
and we got to work with so many wonderful people and I think those are
people that
I'll always remember and experiences that I'll never forget. Vocal Point has
already started to receive some amazing
opportunities, a lot of performance requests, and I think that this
opportunity on The Sing Off is just going to propel the group forward
and allow us to reach more people and that's really ultimately what we want to
happen is to be able to share our message
and that goal of sharing happiness with people
to more and more folks who can listen the Vocal Point. An experience that was
really special for me
regarding the correspondance that we've receieved back from some of the fans or people
that have seen our music,
we got a letter from an occapella group from a different University
that one of the members' dads also had a disease that
resulted in him passing way and I believe that
the same day that he passed away or the same day that they found out that he passed
away, that night,
our show aired or our song aired, "I'll Be Missing You"
that depicted the same sentiment, so that was just really amazing to me how
God moves in a mysterious way and how He uses
these kind of experiences, not only to bless us, but to bless the lives of
others, and so that was really special
experience for me. It's interesting to think about the effect and the influence
that we may have had on people's opinions of
BYU and the LDS Church. I don't think we'll ever really know
what impact we fully had, but to know that we were probably able to
impact even if it was just one person
and help them see that we're just people trying to live our lives and do
that in a happy way,
is totally worth it. The whole experience, if we're able to help one person,
for us, makes the whole thing worth it.