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How Chicago’s Uniting Voices Choir Helped Close Out Djo’s Lollapalooza Set

Two days before they helped close one of the most memorable sets at this year’s Lollapalooza, the 40 teen singers in Uniting Voices Chicago’s top ensemble performed their newest arrangement to an audience of one: Joe Keery.

The former DePaul University student, Djo frontman and “Stranger Things” actor had come to a small rehearsal room on the North Side for a first listen to the choir’s reimagined take of the band’s song, “Back On You.”

“I think what made this experience so meaningful is that Uniting Voices really represents all of Chicago,” Velez-Lauria said. “Being on that Lollapalooza stage, performing as part of a group that reflects the full diversity of this city, alongside an artist like Joe who has ties to Chicago — it just felt like this culmination of everything we stand for.”

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Keery closed out the set with the tender, “Back On You,” joined by an actual chorus, the Uniting Voices Chicago, formerly the Chicago Children’s Choir. Choir director Josephine Lee led the young members, who angelically sang, “Come back home, buddy, I remember who you are, who you are” — marking the end of one heck of a homecoming.