Three people who are singing together are a "vocal trio".
In 1965 he backed the vocal trio the Ivy League, and continued working as a session musician.
But there are two combinations that will be present throughout his career: the vocal trio and solo song sung by a member of the group.
The Breakaways were an English female vocal trio, formed in 1962.
Salala is an a capella vocal trio from the south of Madagascar.
They grew up in the Netherlands, where two of them worked as acrobats before forming a vocal trio.
The King Brothers were a British pop vocal trio popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Lettermen is an American male pop music vocal trio.
Vanity 6 was a female vocal trio assembled by Prince in the early 1980s.
The original vocal trio was from Rochester, Indiana and that is where they died.