Matt and Christian
We are Matt Markulis and Christian Cubacub. Music has been a passion of ours for as long as either of us can remember. It wouldn't be until The beginning of the year that we'd start writing our own stuff. Since then we've done about 5 original songs. Christian writes the music and I do the lyrics and figuring out the flow for each song. Lately Christian has been delving into the lyrical part of the water and I've been trying to take my hand at picking up guitar...so we'll see how this goes.Band/artist history
Matt- I've been singing as long as I could make audible noise ask any of my family. Early on in school I'd do choir at church and as I got into high school I'd get into Concerts with the music department and into the Drama Dept. Music has always been a big part of my life. In high school is were I met Christian and Summer between Sophomore year and Junior year we probably would start jamming a lot. Music is definitely more than just a hobby for me, it's a passion that I very much want to do more with.
Christian-Christian has always been a huge fan of almost every genre of music that's out there. At an early age he was playing piano and it would be in high school that he would pick up guitar. After high school he would play off and on in his free time.
December of this past year Christian and I reconnected after kind of doing our own thing for a while and started jamming again. Early January we started righting our own music. We're at 5 originals right now and we're working on a couple more. The goal is to definitely get an EP out before the years end.Have you performed in front of an audience?We've played live a couple times. We're definitely working on broadening our horizons and possibly hitting some of the local clubs.
Your musical influences
Majore musical influences .... we're all over the board here. From classic Jazz....to Motown, to John Mayer, to John Coltrane. Jason Mraz, Incubus, James Morrison...to personal influnces for me(Matt) at least, my buddies, Stefanie Montemayor, Kris Clemente, Allan Laino, Earl Baylon, Josie Garcia, Kim Poblete and many more.What equipment do you use?
RIght now we're using a Macbook Pro, with an M-Audio Box. We're just starting out. Which is what I've dubbed our production company(i.e. the macbook pro and the box) it's been dubbed...Just Starting Out.Anything else?
Honestly being able to come up with our own music is really satisfying. One of the coolest things probably was after we wrote one of our songs, "Midnight Daydream" one of Christians buddy's asked who did it originally. That was a pretty cool feeling. He liked the song so much he was sure that it what we did was a cover.
In all honesty in termsa of musicians Christian is probably one of my favorite artists hah. I love writing, always have, and lyrics just kind of seem easy to me, but some of the stuff he comes up with. Just blows my mind. Like in my head he's right up there with Babyface and Brian McKnight in terms of what he comes up with in regards to music.