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Elio Kennedy-Yoon Is Flattered to Be Your ‘Copacabana’ Crush
“It’s very meaningful, especially being who I am. I really like that people are seeing a trans person in a cappella.”
Forget all the artists battling it out with Taylor Swift on the top-ten charts — on some corners of TikTok, the song of the summer is a cover of Barry Manilow’s 1978 single “Copacabana (At the Copa),” by the Harvard a cappella group Din & Tonics — namely for a charming solo by 21-year-old member Elio Kennedy-Yoon. “It’s obviously very flattering,” the biology major admits on a video call from the Dins’ final stop in Sydney, Australia, during their two-month world tour that started in June. I hope that a director would see me and be like, “Oh, yeah, you could be Jack Kelly or Orpheus or — recently I’ve been super-obsessed with Sweeney Todd — Anthony.” And it wouldn’t be a political statement.
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