American a cappella group The Edge Effect sing and travel the world for a living. One of their most impressive backdrops was likely the caves at Grotto Bay Beach Resort Bermuda.

The five-man group recently released a YouTube video of themselves singing Leonard Cohen’s iconic hit Hallelujah here. It has amassed close to 3,000 views on the popular social media site — and opened the door for them to perform in Bermuda in the near future.

Group member, Sean Gerrity, tells us more ...

Q: What brought you to Bermuda?

A: We’ve been singing on Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruise Lines for the past four years. We tend to fly up to the destination midweek and board the ship to entertain people for one or two nights. We’ve been to Bermuda many times before, but this was our first time staying at the Grotto Bay Beach Resort. We checked [out the caves] and we agreed we have to sing in here. The acoustics were phenomenal, but the aesthetic was just beautiful and breathtaking.

Q: As far as you know were you the first singers to do that?

A: We haven’t heard of anyone else just going in there and singing. We typically sing everywhere. We just go to find a nice spot and set up and sing but that one took the cake. We just got great feedback from the resort and they asked if they could put that video on their website and repost it onto their Facebook page. I believe we are also scheduled to come back before the end of the year. I’ve been in talks with people who handle some of the bands there. We’d love to do an intimate, small concert in the caves — maybe a 30-minute show for people at the resort.

Q: What are your thoughts of Bermuda overall then?

A: We absolutely love it. We all say we just need to do about five more years of cruise shipping and then we want to buy a compound in Bermuda and retire there. We just have to convince our families, which shouldn’t be too hard. It’s really the best place to be. We just love how incredibly clean everything is. It seems there is such a sense of pride by everyday Bermudians. Even when you drive to areas that aren’t the most affluent they are still pretty immaculate and you have this flair towards tropical living, even though it’s a subtropical island. On top of that you have the most gorgeous beaches I’ve ever seen. It’s just beautiful and the culture, people and food are great.

Q: So what role do you play in the band?

A: I’m actually the top tenor so I’m the one that sounds like a girl in the recording. (Tenor Danny Alan, tenor, baritones John Gibson and Troy Dolendo are also in the band along with Karl Hudson on bass.)

Q: How did the five of you get together?

A: We’ve known each other for literally the better part of 20 years. Some of us went to school with each other and three of us were part of a group that was based in Las Vegas for six years. We had some creative differences with one of the members in Vegas so we decided to leave that group and form a new one. We reached out to all of our buddies that we had performed with over the years and it was just a quick gathering of amazing talent from other groups. As soon as we put the word out it didn’t take long before we started getting gigs. All of us had made our way individually to Orlando, Florida. That was the home base for us. We all at one point worked for Walt Disney World or Universal Studios as entertainers. Some of us still carry full-time jobs at Walt Disney and perform as The Edge Effect on the side. We just love what we do. It’s a really good group of guys. There’s no ego battle. Everyone gets on very well.

Q: Does The Edge Effect mostly perform on cruise ships?

A: No, we do quite a bit of work outside the cruise ship industry. If we took every offer that came to us from the cruise ships we’d never be home or get to see our wives and children. We stay quite busy. It is a full-time gig, but some of us have other full-time obligations as well so we’re generally back and forth a lot trying to figure out our schedules. We do corporate convention work and travel all around the world doing convention entertainment. We stay very busy and we create original material as well. We have three CDs that are out right now and we are working on two more.

Q: How did you get started in music?

A: It started out for me like a lot of entertainers — waiting tables. And then I got my first full-time job at Walt Disney World in 1999. I was in my mid-20s. Through that job I met all these other guys who were being paid to be entertainers full-time at theme parks. We decided to pool our resources and put together a production inside and outside the amusement park. Members of our group have had opportunities to perform with entertainers like Prince, Tony Bennett and Jay Leno.

Q: How does it feel to get to be one of the few doing singing and entertaining full-time?

A: I think the fact that I haven’t worked a real job since 1999 is great. I get to do what I love for a living and raise my family on that. It’s afforded me the opportunity to meet my wife, get married and have children. We actually met in Las Vegas when she was a showgirl and musician’s assistant, but we both happen to be from New Jersey. This job is just so much fun and I know the other guys feel the same. Being able to perform for a living has opened up so many doors for travel and meeting people that you never thought you would have the opportunity to.

See their rendition of Hallelujah shot in Bermuda, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOLnER6mdM. For more information, visit www.notaboyband.com