Brothers and sisters Jocelyn and Chris went to Harvard and got a rock career

2021-11-24 05:16:06 By : Ms. Admin Yomaker

Jocelyn and Chris Arndt spent a lot of time on the red line during their degrees at Harvard. This is not surprising. But what sets the siblings apart from their classmates is that the rides of Jocelyn and Chris do not usually end at Davis Square or Park Street. The two took the T line most of the time to the South Station and boarded the bus to the clubs and concert halls near the east coast.

"We are full-time musicians," Jocelyn said with a smile. "If we can do this, we will have classes from Monday to Thursday, and then there will be no on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We have a very close relationship with Greyhound Bus Station, and become a rock star on weekends. Within a week, we were nerds."

Jocelyn graduated in 2017, and her brother Chris received his degree a year later. But the duo-known as Jocelyn and Chris-did not study a PhD. Plan or move to New York or Washington, D.C. for high-power jobs. Instead, they packed their luggage and continued to tour.

Currently, the duo is making great progress in the adult album alternative radio hit "Sugar and Spice"-inspired by their classic rock fans, this is a tight, tough stomping. Next, they will open for Here Come the Mummies on Sunday's Big Night Live, and make headlines on November 11th at The Music Room Gallery & Wine Bar in South Yarmouth.

Long before the two imagined an Ivy League school education, they imagined being in a band.

"We started playing musical instruments when Jocelyn was in fourth grade, and I was in third grade," Chris said. "This quickly became our favorite thing to do. We formed a band called Dependents in middle school. I believe our parents appreciate it and we play as much as possible."

When it comes to music, the two are just connected. They like the same artists-Queen, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin. They wrote well together, and they never wrote a song that was not a collaboration. They found a counterpoint between Jocelyn's big rock singing and Chris' heavy blues voice.

Although still teenagers, Jocelyn and Chris caught the attention of David Bourgeois (Arndts grew up in the area) in an unremarkable performance at a fair in upstate New York. Bourgeois runs a production company and is contracted to help manage and produce the duo. He saw something special in the original tunes of teenagers.

"I remember sitting on my bed, writing the lyrics of a song in a spiral notebook, and saying,'Yes, I think this is actually good,'" Jocelyn said. "This song is called'More Than I Say I Do', in fact we ended up recording it with David and it ended up in our first EP. We actually put this song on When I got to YouTube, he heard it. That's why he came to the exhibition that day."

Today, Bourgeois cooperates with the two. But in the past few years, the pair has added more personality and unique methods with each release. The new single "Skeleton Key", just like "Sugar and Spice", will appear in the LP "Favorite Ghosts" in 2022, showing more and more intense anger-think of Black Keys with a twist of black metal .

"There are two aspects to this record," Jocelyn said. "The side of'Sugar and Spice' is more of the acoustic guitar as the dominant instrument. Then there is the rock side. Several tracks on this record are the most rock songs we have ever released."

The stone is good. But is it enough to set aside Harvard education? Brothers and sisters certainly do not complain about the choices they make. If anyone else in the family is unhappy, neither Jocelyn nor Chris have heard of it.

"No one said anything," Chris said with a smile. "At least not in our presence."

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