HOW IT ALL STARTED

Honestly, Jemar and I were looking for a "multi-ethnic, multi-national" band. We looked for months and we could not find anyone. Then one Sunday service, it came to me while the Praise and Worship group were playing, I thought to myself "Why am I looking? The whole band is here!" I was listening especially to Yetski and Frank only because in a short time, you both have become better and better. This is no small thing on their part, they are both doing a lot as the rhythm section of the group. So Jemar and I talked and we both decided that it would be a good thing. We all know each other and we are all comfortable with each other. But I feel, for myself, why I am doing this. It should go without saying that we are doing this for the Lord and this is how I personally feel I can reach people is through music.

Vince Pascual, Stillwater, Composer/Guitarist

Vince and I were planning to start a band that would glorify God and praise Him with the songs the Lord had planted in our hearts with the music we love, we started hanging out and composing songs, and we had the chemistry right away, we were praying for that the Lord provide us with the other members of the band that were needed.

At the same time Vince and I were part of the P&W team at our church where we both play guitar, we were also training some people to play guitar and bass for the P&W team, our P&W team had no drums and drummer until Vinia (one of our guitarist and musical director) bought his husband Frank an electric drumset as a birthday gift, I was training Boyet Serrano at that time to play bass since the church bought a brand new bass guitar, as time went on, everybody in the team were improving and the P&W team as a whole were getting better, the male singers we had, Rene and Bal Gaspar have good singing voices, Bal Gaspar was a ballader with a voice that of Martin Nievera/Gary V. type while Rene Aguinaldo has a very high pitch and contemporary/modern voice.

Having a lot of material already, Vince and i started posting BAND MEMBERS WANTED all around Princeton and the internet, little did we know that God had provided it all through our brothers at church, all we needed was a Keyboardist cause no one really played keybaords and piano that well at our church, jamming with Tito Franks friend Joey Romero proved to be an exciting experience and at first jam we felt the chemistry with him already, he's good in improvising, has a lot of good ideas, very open minded and just amazes us with new ideas and notes/chords/voicings he does with the keyboards.

We all know that God has a plan for all of us and if this band is in His Will everything will come to pass before our eyes because it is by His power and not that of our own that we are able to do this and it is by His power that we shall go on. God Bless you all!!

Jemar Mangali, Stillwater, Composer/Guitarist