The Dalton Academy Warblers | |
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| Origin | Westerville, Ohio |
| Genres | A cappella |
| Years active | 2010–2015 |
| Labels | Columbia Records |
| Members | Grant Gustin (Sebastian) Dominic Barnes (Trent) Curt Mega (Nick) Riker Lynch (Jeff) Jon Hall (Beatboxer) Titus Makin Jr. (David) Eddy Martin (Thad) Nolan Gerard Funk (Hunter) |
| Past members | Darren Criss (Blaine) Chris Colfer (Kurt) Telly Leung (Wes) |
The Dalton Academy Warblers are a fictionala cappellaglee club from theprivate school Dalton Academy, located inWesterville, Ohio. They were first introduced in theGlee television episode "Never Been Kissed".[1] The episode also introduced recurring guest starDarren Criss asBlaine Anderson,lead singer and junior member of the group.[1] Performing acover version ofKaty Perry's "Teenage Dream" with Criss on lead vocals, the actors who portrayed the Warblerslip synced tobackground vocals provided by theBeelzebubs, an all-male a cappella group fromTufts University inMedford, Massachusetts, who did not appear onscreen.
Tufts Beelzebubs voiced the background of the Warblers up until the end of the second season. When the Warblers returned in the season three episode"The First Time", Curt Mega, who sings lead on the Warblers track in this episode, mentioned the backgrounds were instead sung by "Jon Hall, Brock Baker and Luke Edgemon and some others", with the three named men having played on-screen Warblers in the second season.[2][3] Some of the actors who played Warblers in the second season, including Hall and Mega, returned for the third.[4]Glee character Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) was lead singer of the Warblers during season two, and after he left Dalton Academy, Sebastian Smythe (Grant Gustin) took over the Warblers in season three.
Singles by the Warblers, with series stars Criss andChris Colfer performing lead vocals, have collectively sold over 1.3 million copies through March 2011.[5] Their first album,Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers, released byColumbia Records on April 19, 2011, debuted at number two on the USBillboard 200 and number one onBillboard's Soundtracks chart, selling 86,000 copies in its first week.[6][7]
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