The first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring an a cappella group was unveiled Tuesday with three-time Grammy winners Pentatonix receiving the honor.
Singer-songwriters Rachel Platten and Andy Grammer joined the group's current five members near The Hollywood Roosevelt hotel.
Pentatonix has its origins in the attempt by three students at Martin High School in Arlington, Texas -- Kirstin Maldonado, Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying -- to win a local radio show competition to meet the cast of "Glee" in 2010. They submitted a trio version of "Telephone," the 2009 song by Lady Gaga that featured Beyoncé. While they did not win, their version of "Telephone" gained attention on YouTube.
Despite not all meeting until the day before the auditions began, Pentatonix was the show's third-season champion. Pentatonix has released 11 studio albums, with 2014's "That's Christmas to Me," certified as double-platinum , 2016's "A Pentatonix Christmas," certified as platinum, and 2015's "Pentatonix" as gold.
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