Take 6: Just The Voices

The six members of the Grammy-winning gospel group Take 6 are celebrating their 10th year of recording together, and their anniversary gift to one another and to their fans is a new album titled So Cool. CBS This Morning Co-Anchor Mark McEwen spoke to the group at the Blue Note in New York City. He asked how the group has changed over the years.

"Well, I think it's a pleasure that we really take seriously now," says bass singer Alvin Chea. "We took it for granted before. Just would get together at school and just harmonized and we thought that would always happen. Since we've been together, though, there are a lot of groups that have come and gone."

Seven Grammys and six albums later, Take 6 has returned to its a cappella roots.

"Oh, wow, the new album is so cool, in name and in character," says David Thomas, the group's second tenor. "At least, we like to think so. But we're going back to singing a capella, the way we first started."

Adds first tenor Claude McKnight, "Some of the fans who were diehard Take 6 fans and know us from the early days, being fully a capella, had been saying over and over, 'Man, I like that first record...I like that first record. Can you guys come back and do that?'"

Ask Take 6 what they do, and Cedric Dent has an answer: "I'd say Take 6 has a music ministry. You know, it used to bother me that people would come up to us a lot of times and say, 'You know, I've listened to your music for years before I ever listened to the words.' And it wasn't until recently that I realized that that was part of the strength of what we do. The Lord has gifted us with a very unique sound that enthralls and captures people, and it holds them there long enough so that then the message can seep in."

The other two members of Take 6 are Joey Kibble and first tenor Mark Kibble, who are brothers.

You can hear more Take 6 on The Prince of Egypt album. The group also has a cameo in the upcoming movie The Out of Towners, starring Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin.