The One Voice Children’s Choir has grown since the days when founder-director Masa Fukuda squeezed 45 folding chairs into the living room of his apartment for rehearsals. “My downstairs neighbor hated me,” said Fukuda, who now makes his home in Sandy with his wife, Alyssa.
Rehearsals now are split into two weekly sessions, one at a middle school in Salt Lake County and the other in Utah County. (It’s all the same choir, so singers simply choose the rehearsal that’s more convenient.) Children travel from as far away as Wyoming and Idaho to participate. One Voice is a nonprofit corporation with a board of directors and many parent volunteers.