NIGHTLIFE
SPEBSQSA International Quartet Champions

Nightlife, from Southern California, is only the second quartet in barbershop singing history to win gold medals as both international quartet champions and as members of the winning barbershop chorus on the same day!  Truly a fitting achievement for four individuals who have spent most of their lives singing and performing for others.  They have among them more than 95 years of barbershop experience--something that clearly shows itself in their superb interpretation of songs and enjoyable entertainment package.

Nightlife first got together in November 1990, and in the fall of 1991 won the Far Western District Quartet Championship.  In the International competitions that followed, the quartet quickly achieved success as well, winning two bronze medals and a silver.  But, in July, 1996, Nightlife reached the pinnacle of success by being declared the new International Quartet Champion!

Nightlife has performed throughout the United States and other countries including Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, Australia and Fiji. They have performed for celebrities such as Dick Van Dyke, former Senator John Glenn, Bill Hanna of Hanna-Barbera, Ted Turner, and Jane Fonda.  The quartet had a featured role in a television movie, “Mother of the Bride,” and has appeared on the daytime show, “Mike and Matty.”  

Their recordings, “Songs at Twilight,” “Basin Street Blues” and “Blues in the Night” are available on both compact disc and cassette.

Tenor, ROB MENAKER, started barbershopping as a teenager in Maryland in 1975, and has almost always been in a quartet.  He moved to California in 1980, and, while attending UCLA (where he received a degree in Anthropology), toured Japan with the Men’s Glee Club.  Rob is currently a Senior Graphics Coordinator for the Warner Bros. DVD Group in Los Angeles, and lives in Gardena, California.

Lead, JOHN SASINE, joined the barbershop Society in 1977, when he was 14, and competed in his first contest three weeks later!  He also has sung in many quartets, was active in musical theater, and, before joining Nightlife, was the replacement lead of the 1964 International Quartet Champions, the Sidewinders.  John, a Southern Californian by birth, holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Brigham Young University, and now lives in Utah.  He is the owner of Rocky Mountain Recycling, a paper collection and brokerage company in Salt Lake City.

Bass, BRETT LITTLEFIELD, also a native Californian, answered a newspaper ad in 1980 inviting men to attend a barbershop rehearsal and has been hooked on the hobby ever since!  He, too, entered competition in his first year as a Society member, and, in addition to frequent quartetting, has often been active in chapter administration.  When not singing, Brett is the Sales Manager of Rainbow Nut and Bolt in Santa Ana, California and lives in nearby Orange.

Baritone, JEFF BAKER, was the first to start barbershopping, beginning in upstate New York in 1972 at the tender age of 12.  He moved to California in 1980, to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute of Theater, and quartetted whenever possible.  Jeff is the spokesman for Nightlife, and by day is the Manager of Broadcast Operations for the WB Television Network.  He lives in Long Beach, California.

Each man in Nightlife has been a section leader of their home chorus, the Masters of Harmony (five time International Chorus Champions), and members of the music committee. Both John and Brett have experience as musical directors for other barbershop choruses. John directs the Wasatch Front Saltaires in Salt Lake City, and Brett served as the director of the California Promise Chorus in Irvine, California and interim director of the Masters of Harmony.

You are sure to be rewarded by Nightlife--a quartet and sound of distinction!