The original roster included P. Daniel Newman, Jason Coryell, Brian Stephenson, Liz Radford, Josh Einsohn, Devorah Rosner, and Lora Norback, with the group holding auditions in the fall of 1991.

[8] There, they performed their award-winning set which included their arrangements of "Smooth" by Santana, "Elastic Heart" by Sia, "Tremors" by SOHN, and "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars.

To gain votes, the Whispers got support of both the WashU newspaper Studlife[12] and the St. Louis Metro social media staff.

In Spring 2012, the Whispers sang "Change the World" for Bill Nye and Washington University's board of trustees, as a part of the dedication to WUSTL's new Earth, Planetary, and Space Science Center.

They have also sung for the WUSTL Founder's Day ball on multiple occasions, which has been attended by Robert Gates, John Huntsman, and Anderson Cooper.