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Blackberry Jam is Jammin’ on Song Writing

BlackberryJam 2013Adrian & Julian “Blackberry Jam”

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 School could not end fast enough for Adrian and Julian, 16 year old identical twin singing duo who prefer to spend their time making music.  

After Rivenmaster announced  a chance to win a scholarship to the 2013 Prodigy Camp Project, a summer program that brings together 20 of the most promising teenage songwriters and filmmakers to hone their craft, they actually got a call from the camp encouraging us to apply.  Julian said,

“The chance to collaborate with other artists from around the world was really exciting to us.”

 

Blackberry Jam has come a long way since third grade where they got their start entertaining their classmates with comedic singing routines at “Lunchbox Special”. This past year, as high school sophomores they took a songwriting class and spent 90 minutes each day writing music and lyrics. For 6 weeks the twins work through the creative process, trying out different lyrics and riffs on their new song Seven Seas.  Adrian said,

“Songwriting is hard! The music part is easy, but the lyrics just don’t sound right.”

A breakthrough came when their teacher suggested they collaborate with Desiree Hazleton, a classmate who was particularly skilled at writing lyrics.  

“In the first session we had an entire verse and chorus written. Desiree would just crank out the lyric and it was so easy to put the music and vocals behind her words.”

Within a few sessions they had an entire song, and ideas for 4 more projects. Collaboration was the key to success.  By the end of the semester, their latest song, “End of the Night”, was finished.

End of the Night“End of the Night” Original By Blackberry Jam

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JorJay Extraordinarily Entertaining, Extremely Talented Twins

Jayden and Jordan Besana on stage
Jayden and Jordan Besana “JorJay”

 

Jordan and Jayden Besana 2013

 

It’s not every day that you discover twins that are as entertaining and talented as 8-year old fraternal twin brothers, Jordan and Jayden Besana, better known as “JorJay”. These two boys are multi-talented actors and singers, as well as an extremely funny stand-up comedy duo!   I’m told that from the first time, this DOUBLE TROUBLE made a surprised appearance on the sonogram monitor and the doctor yelled,

“You’re having twins!”

Jordan and Jayden have continued to SHOCK their parents in many positive ways. 

 

BORN ACTORS

Because their parents own a video camera and used it constantly to shoot videos of the twins, the boys became comfortable being in front of the camera at a very young age.  At age three, their parents started shooting commercials and skits as a fun family activity.  The boys were very natural, great at memorization and took direction well.   They also loved seeing themselves on television, laughing and making fun of each other.  Seeing their potential, their parents decided to enroll them into an acting class in Los Angeles at age seven.  The acting class really propelled the boys into becoming up and coming young actors in Hollywood.    

                     

JorJay sings TitaniumJordan and Jaden sing “Titanium” by David Guetta ft. Sia

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