Purple Haze is an American a cappella

A cappella

A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

 choir

Choir

A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

 group, consisting of students from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 in Evanston

Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...

, Illinois. Formed in 1996 by Elisa Mandell and Gretchen Helmrich, Purple Haze is a small group of talented musicians committed to award-winning music and long lasting friendship. Purple Haze performs three shows a year, tours both nationally and internationally, and has released six studio albums to favorable reviews. Their 2008 album Mosaic

Mosaic (Purple Haze album)

Mosaic is the sixth studio album by Purple Haze, released independently in 2008. The album won two Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards in 2009 for Best Pop/Rock Album and Best Pop/Rock Song from the Contemporary A Capella Society...

 won two Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards in 2009 for Best Pop/Rock Album and Best Pop/Rock Song from the Contemporary A Capella Society.

Albums

Studio albums

• 3 Seconds...
  3 Seconds...
  3 Seconds... is the first studio album by Purple Haze, released independently in 1998. It includes a cover of the Indigo Girls' hit, "Least Complicated," from their 1994 album Swamp Ophelia, which is sometimes incorrectly attributed to the original artists....
  
  (1998)
• Hooray for Everything
  Hooray for Everything
  Hooray for Everything is the second studio album by Purple Haze, released independently in 2000.-Track listing:#"Cornflake Girl"#"Rain"#"Strangers in a Car"#"Come Undone"#"I’m Sorry Now"#"Better Things"#"Car Wash"#"Bills Bills Bills"#"Two Step"...
  
  (2000)
• Out of the Band
  Out of the Band
  Out of the Band is the third studio album by Purple Haze, released independently in 2002.-Track listing:#"Elevation"#"Everywhere"#"U Got It Bad"#"Emotion"#"Barrel of a Gun"#"Go Rest High on that Mountain"#"Fallin’"#"This Woman’s Work"...
  
  (2002)
• Streaked
  Streaked
  Streaked is the fourth studio album by Purple Haze, released independently in 2004.-Track listing:#"Bleed American"#"The Remedy"#"Straight Up"#"Your House"#"Disease"#"Fast Car"#"Changes"#"Toxic"#"Candleburn"#"Falling"#"You’re No Good"#"Gone"...
  
  (2004)
• Rutherford P. Haze
  Rutherford P. Haze
  Rutherford P. Haze is the fifth studio album by Purple Haze, released independently in 2006.-Track listing:#"Popstars"#"Accidentally in Love"#"All These Things That I’ve Done"#"Does He Love You?"#"Somebody to Love"#"Proud"#"Harder to Breathe"...
  
  (2006)
• Mosaic
  Mosaic (Purple Haze album)
  Mosaic is the sixth studio album by Purple Haze, released independently in 2008. The album won two Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards in 2009 for Best Pop/Rock Album and Best Pop/Rock Song from the Contemporary A Capella Society...
  
  (2008)
• Feed The Sound (2010)