A love of singing often seems to run in families, and many choruses count among their members husbands and wives, parents and children, and siblings.
The UW Choral Union, for example, currently has two generations of women, two sisters and a daughter-niece, from the same family.
Nicole Grapentine-Benton, 20, is a UW senior majoring in Portuguese and minoring in environmental studies who joined the Choral Union this year after being in another UW choir last year. She sings with her mom, Lori Grapentine, and her aunt Joy Grapentine.