About SCL History Etymology Schedule Repertoire Members Alumni Recordings Contact Us		lifton "kip" est III is the founder and president of the Suspicious Cheese Lords, a position he retains through his skills as a cook par excellence. Skip began his stage career in kindergarten by singing "The Perfect Nanny" from the movie Mary Poppins. He was encouraged to study music by his next-door neighbor, who happened to be Howard Mitchell, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra. Skip was a boy chorister in the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, a musical travesty he'd rather forget. He sung with the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Treble Choir, the J. Weldon Norris Chorale (Howard University), the Washington Capella Antiqua, the Cathedral Choral Society, and Coral Cantigas before deciding to found his own group. This D.C. native is equally at home with Gregorian chant and spirituals, but his true love is for music of the Renaissance. He sings countertenor, and currently studies with Barbara Hollingshead.

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