I love it when artists take a well known song and completely flip it. JRA does exactly that with this cover of Chris Brown’s “Deuces”, taking lead vocals with Passion backing him up. Their voices blend so smoothly you’d think they’d been in a singing group together for years. These guys are so musically talented […]
Read More JRA x Passion Remix Chris Brown’s “Deuces”If you’re a JRA fan you may recall him sharing a fresh new song entitled “By Chance (You & I)” on Youtube. Well he’s been promising a studio version ever since and the day has finally come where it is now available on iTunes. Not only that but he’s put a bonus acoustic version also […]
Read More JRA Releases Studio & Acoustic Versions of “By Chance (You & I)”Summer 2010 is definitely shaping up to be the season of mega AA concert line ups! Check the details for this event called Reign: Seattle featuring Erika David, Passion, D-Pryde, J. Reyez, Lil Crazed, Melissa Polinar, Traphik, and JRA! It looks like it’s gonna be an awesome night of Hip-Hop and R&B from many of […]
Read More Erika David x Passion x D-Pryde x J. Reyez x Lil Crazed x Melissa Polinar x Traphik & JRA To Perform in Seattle August 14thCheck out this great article on the NY Times website highlighting and focusing on Asian American musicians, most prominently Legaci as they continue their back up duties for Justin Bieber. They mention a lot of great talent, including Charice, David Choi, AJ Rafael, Kina Grannis, Gabe Bondoc, Cathy Nguyen, JR Aquino, Dawen, Jennifer Chung, and […]
Read More Must Read – Great NY Times Online Article on Legaci and Other AA MusiciansJR Aquino, who often goes by simply JRA, hasn’t been on my radar for too long but upon hearing some of his work and album previews on Youtube at the early part of this year I was impressed enough to support the guy and pick up his album. That also means we get to take […]
Read More Critic’s Corner: JRA – ExposureMost people who have been following Asian-American music for a while will be familiar with the classic Passion song “Lemonade”. Well a bunch of singers were in Canada for a gig and what do you get when a lot of talent is in a small room? Awesome jams. Check out this clip of Victor Kim, […]
Read More Victor Kim x Lydia Paek x JRA x Erika David x Traphik x Passion Sing “Lemonade”If you haven’t seen the MV for “When We Say (Juicebox)” yet by WongFu… you should. Hurry up and watch that and come back to this post. Here you get to see the making of the video and all the work that went into it including AJ having to buy make up, appearances from JRA, […]
Read More AJ Rafael Shares Footage from “When We Say (Juicebox)” MV ShootJRA’s got a new song to share and he returns to an acoustic pop/rock style. The song’s called “By Chance (You & I)” and has a great sound and groove though I think some of the writing goes back and forth between cute and corny. But there’s no doubt about it, JRA sounds great and […]
Read More JRA Shares New Original – “By Chance (You & I)”Both of these artists decided to cover the new Travis McCoy track ft Bruno Mars – ‘Billionaire’. They both san it in a similar style and both decided to switch up the lyrics a little bit and put their own spin on it. On top of that, they posted up these videos within a 24 […]
Read More Showdown: Joseph Vincent vs JRARemember that cover we posted of AJ Rafael and JRA covering Replay along with some help from Andrew Garcia? We were huge fans of their version and apparently so is IYAZ. It’s crazy to see them get acknowledged by the original artist but I guess talent recognize talent! Awesome exposure for the guys!
Read More IYAZ Is a Fan of AJ Rafael, JRA, Andrew Garcia’s Cover of Replay
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