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Peter James Hollens [2] is an American singer-songwriter, producer and entrepreneur. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he and Leo da Silva founded the University of Oregon 's a cappella group, On The Rocks, known as the first official collegiate a cappella group in Oregon.
Christmas Together is the seventh studio album by American musical group The Piano Guys.Released on October 27, 2017, by Portrait (a division of Sony Masterworks), [2] the album reached number 27 on the US Billboard 200. [3]
The album was released on October 28, 2016 and consists of nine previously released tracks, including collaborations with Plácido Domingo, Peter Hollens and Vittorio Grigolo, and three new tracks, "Someday at Christmas" and two versions of "The Little Drummer Boy", one with Il Volo. [2]
As of November 2018, they had performed in front of or on top of four. Videos at the Great Wall of China ("Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends"), [ 9 ] [ 24 ] the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro ("The Mission/How Great Thou Art"), [ 9 ] [ 24 ] Chichen Itza ("The Jungle Book/Sarabande"), [ 25 ] and Petra ("Indiana Jones and the Arabian ...
In 2018, Peter Hollens recorded an a cappella medley of this song and two other songs from the musical, "Waving Through a Window" and "For Forever", and released it on YouTube. [23] He would revisit the song in 2020 when he released a separate a cappella cover of the song on YouTube. [24]
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, Hollens and Home Free collaborated on a cover of the U2 song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", incorporating a choir made up of over 200 members of their respective Patreon patrons; each performer or family group recorded their audio and video remotely.
It is featured in orchestral performances and spawned numerous covers, many of which combine the song with an in-game, English-language composition "The Dragonborn Comes". One such cover, by Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens, holds the Guinness World Record for most viewed cover version of a video game soundtrack.
The song was later covered by New Zealand singers Yulia Townsend and Will Martin and American singer Peter Hollens. In 2014, German a cappella Metal band van Canto performed a cover on their fifth studio album, Dawn of the Brave .