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Let's meet the team!

All the members have known each other and played together for several years, more than 10-15 years for most, without wanting to give any indication of their ages...

They have acquired a good experience of the stage and the studio during their various musical projects, always in a blues and blues-rock register. They worked a lot on covers, often little-known pieces of the blues repertoire, but also classics.

They composed quite a bit in their previous project and now, after a long break due to the singer's pregnancy, they are returning to the path of composition by currently working on their first original songs.

• Pascal - the drummer - is the glue, the one that brought the band members together and the one who keeps them on track during their frenzied solos. He's very tactile but we love him.
• Gio is a soulful guitarist who plays with the raw strings that stir your guts. As well as playing the guitar, he has a real passion for petrol stations.

Both Giovanni and Pascal formed and played in several Brussels blues bands, notably the Brusseleirs and Marylin, with which they reached the final of Emergenza festival in 2017. Their live experience and telepathic feeling do a lot in the harmony of the group.

Soon after Amandine joined ex-Marylin (keys & backing vocals), the band became Mojo Rising and after several concerts in Belgium (such as Rock Classic and Sombreffe Festival several times each), they recorded a few tracks including compositions at Studio Jet. The band as it was later split up for various personal reasons - without breaking the friendship that linked them all - and this is where the companions meet Jeremy (in 2018) who arrives first as a guitarist.

• Jeremy arrived in Belgium after more than 15 years of musical experience in France, as lead guitarist or bassist in rock, pop-rock and funk bands. With sharp feelings and a very questionable sense of humour, he won our hearts very quickly. And to our great happiness he moved in with us, as our official bassist.
• Paul is our Englishman on the Saxophone, adding this groovy brassy touch to the mix that we love. He turns all purple when he gets carried away in delirious solos, he introduces us to absurd musical nuggets such as jazz music and often delights us with his particularly offbeat anecdotes for a gentleman of his rank.
• Amandine is at the keys and after a few years of backing vocals, she finally took the lead in singing, learning to come out more and more, gently encouraged by her companions. She grew up in a musician’s family, which soon required her to learn how to jam.

The paths of the members have been linked for a long time and this band is above all a story of shared personal and musical friendship !