Duke Masala
Duke a cappella group Speak of the Devil has two desi members this year. They drafted the others as a cappella backup for the desi culture show last month, singing ‘Ghanana Ghanana‘ from Lagaan and ‘O O Jaane Jaana‘ from Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya while stripping off their kurtas in between. One of the white guys provided vocals for the hip-hop sample.
They aren’t quite Penn Masala, but hey, they’re trying.
on Sunday, December 21st, 2008, 3:12 pm in Film, Music, Video clips › 
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Oh. My. God. They’re SO bad. How did either of the brown kids even get into a regular a capella group? The first one was flat throughout, and the second one wasn’t much better.
aaaaaand No. Just. No.
All the white guys have wife beaters or some variation and home boy’s got a ‘gunji’. Really?
Maybe he has some good old desi shoulder hair going on? :D
it took a while for even penn masala to figure out its strengths and play them up, while playing down the weaknesses (e.g. relegating some members strictly to the chorus.) in the beginning, there were really only two or three guys singing all the songs, and many songs were chosen within a certain vocal range. it’s just that the world (via youtube) only really ‘discovered’ penn masala after they had their growing pains worked out. also, in spite of these two desi singers here, it sounds like the composition is all wrong - the background singers sound more like they’re drowning out the main vocals, rather then complementing them - maybe that was the point? ;)
Check out Raagapella at Stanford.