I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.
Kirstin Maldonado
Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.
My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married.
I really wished I'd learned Spanish. I took it all in high school and was planning on trying to be fluent in it. I would get Selena tracks and sing with them and stuff like that.
Surround yourself with good people who support and love you. And have confidence in yourself and your abilities!
I couldn't be more excited about doing 'Kinky Boots' on Broadway; it's going to be a delicious challenge!
David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.
We do a cover of Charlie Puth's 'Attention' that I really, really love and I think really grooves.
I've slowly become more comfortable as an artist and as a person.
My career started the second we auditioned for 'The Sing-Off' on NBC in 2011.
We sing popular songs and show it can be done a cappella. It's fun music.
I never planned out my wedding.
We have a really incredible fan base... they're... the ones that are rooting for us and buying the music and streaming it. They're just really, really amazing... and we're just so thankful for them.
I love Halloween - I'm a die hard.
I remember moving to California and feeling so strange because I'd always seen myself moving to New York.
My favorite singer was Shania Twain. I would love for her to sing with me. And J. Lo - they are my favorites.
I love all the 'Harry Potter' books. Those are just my favorites.
I've always loved lyrics, so I used to listen to Sara Bareilles - more folky, singer-songwritery people.
I'm so proud of 'Break a Little.'
I shaved a quarter of my hair one time, and my poor nana was crying when I FaceTimed her, but I was like, 'It's just hair! It's fun.'
We're just a joyous band, and our music is just fun, happy, and nostalgic.
I think the first big thing I did: I sang at my mom's wedding when I was almost 8, so 7... that was my first thing.
A cappella group names are hard!
A bully is going to be a bully, and you have to stand up for yourself. You can't expect everyone else is going to come and run to your aid. You have to stand your ground; that's very important.
The theater community is so incredible, kind, and supportive.
What better way is there to raise money for such an important organization like Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS than by celebrating all types of bodies, all types of relationships, and just acceptance overall?
I was so happy to be able to be a part of Broadway Bares and had the best time ever!
I love snow cones.
I think it's cool to do a summer outdoor show because, growing up, like, those were always the shows and the concerts that I would get to see, where I would be sitting on the grass with my friends and hanging out, and it was such a moment.
I would definitely go back to 'Kinky Boots' because that family, I think, is so wonderful and incredible, and my role and my part were just so fun to play. But I would definitely love to do other shows as well.
Gwen Stefani was just the most incredible frontwoman. She was the total cool girl.
I think YouTube has been super instrumental in our success as well, because I think there's something really important about seeing and hearing what we're doing.
We always try to make every song we do sound like a track. It's vocal, but we want it to be really full so no one really can even know if it's a cappella. It's not like it's missing anything, per se.
I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot of harmonies and, like, crooners, it puts you in that holiday spirit, I feel like.
It's really, really cool that we've been able to have these opportunities to surround ourselves with these people because they're brilliant. Like, Dolly Parton is legendary, and she's maybe the nicest person I've ever met in my entire life and, like, amazing.
Literally, when the pilot came out for 'Glee,' I think we had a watching party or something. We were all seniors, and everyone all of a sudden in the show choir were so excited. We were like, 'This show is awesome. It's so cool. This is exactly us.'
Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.
When the movie 'Selena' came out, I got really obsessed with her, and my mom and I went and saw it.
Jennifer Lopez, she's my girl! And Shakira... I really like her.
I want people to see that I'm just a girl who went for her dreams.
I want to inspire people to tear down their walls, especially for teenage girls.
So many people don't believe in themselves; people are worth so much more than what social media shows.
Every single 'no' that you get, you know that that was an experience that you learned from. Keep going.
Jennifer Lopez and Sara Bareilles are my tops! Both incredibly hard-working and talented women.
I remember seeing 'Chicago' and 'Legally Blonde' and waiting by the stage door.
Ever since I was little, Broadway had always been my passion.
When I was a kid I was always listening and singing along to Disney compilation CDs.
I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.
Coming out of a group, it's always really fun and creative to do your own thing.
I thought I would move to New York and be on Broadway; that was my goal. I was very work-focused.
