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I started playing the drums when I was 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mom wanted me to learn to play Beatles songs, but once I heard AC\/DC\u2019s Back in Black CD, I just wanted to play AC\/DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned to play a bunch of AC\/DC songs plus dozens of our own original songs and numerous other classic rock songs.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The first time we ever played in public was at our Cub Scout talent show where we played TNT and Back In Black but we did not sing. A month later was a talent show at our school, and we played TNT, Back in Black, and Highway to Hell and sang the songs too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video was filmed about us at the catholic school talent show. You can see it on our website under rockumentaries<\/a>. If you like it, press the like button so all your friends can see it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We held our first real concert when we were 9 years old at Rock Star University\u2019s HOUSE OF ROCK. We played 6 original songs and 6 AC\/DC covers. You can read the full page article that ran in the newspaper about our performance here<\/a>. It was quite a show and I realized how much fun it is to perform in front of 300 screaming fans!<\/p>\n\n\n

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When we were 10, we delivered another big, live concert playing 12 original songs and 6 AC\/DC songs at HOUSE OF ROCK and Jack Blades from Night Ranger interrupted our final bows to give us his personal guitar that he signed \u201cTo Vittorio and Vincenzo, Keep Rockin! Jack Blades, Night Ranger\u201d Jack then asked us to play his favorite AC\/DC song, Highway to Hell. I said we would play it if Jack would sing it, so Jack joined in. It was cool. Jack told the audience we were the greatest ten year old rockers he had ever seen. That was quite a compliment coming from the lead singer of Night Ranger. Those guys have been rocking the world for 40 years! You can read the article that was in the newspaper about the show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One day when we were rehearsing at Rock Star University a legendary rock producer by the name of Ron Nevison stopped by to watch and listen to us. Ron Nevison has engineered and produced music for over four decades including multi-platinum albums for Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, The Who, Heart, Chicago, Damn Yankees, KISS, Night Ranger and many more. After watching us play Long Live Rock N Roll<\/em> and I Like Doing This the Best<\/em>, he offered to produce our first studio album.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So we spent 14 days over the summer in the studio, producing our first album, We Are V\u00b2<\/em>. It was a lot of fun, but was also a lot of hard work and rehearsing. But it really came out good. So good that we were nominated for 7 Los Angeles Music Awards. We were told that no artist had ever been nominated for 7 LA Music Awards so it was quite an honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We played two songs at the LA Music Awards show on November 12, 2014. We played the title track to our debut album, We Are V\u00b2<\/em> and a song off the album that was nominated for Rock Single of the Year, Long Live Rock N Roll<\/em>. Before we had finished our two song set the entire crowd was on their feet screaming and applauding for us. It was really cool. \u00a0After we completed our songs, the producer of the LA Music Awards, Al Bowman came on stage with SEVEN LA Music Award plaques. We won ALL 7 Categories!\u00a0 Boy was that exciting!\u00a0Check out the video of our LA Music Awards performance that has had over 1.5 million views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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