Platinum is a barbershop quartet, created in 1998 and the 2000

SPEBSQSA The Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbersho ...

international quartet champions. They are famous for their long posts (held notes at the end of songs), particularly in their adaptation of the song ''Be Our Guest'' and in Clay Hine's arrangement of ''Auld Lang Syne'', which is on Platinum's CD of the same name. Connelly and DeRosa were also members of the 1992 international champion quartet Keepsake. Connelly won gold in 1987 with the quartet

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and again in 2011 with the quartet

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. DeRosa and Lewis are the lead and baritone of the 2007 Champions, MaxQ. Kevin Miles has been a member of The Dapper Dans and has served as the Voice of Epcot Center, both at

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. Platinum was notable for scoring the most points for a single quartet's song in the history of the contest with their rendition of ''

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'', in which they scored 1438 points out of a possible 1500.

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