Yer welcome, Jung. It’s such a simple and sweet tune. She is still so friggin young that it seems almost every song she releases is better than the previous one; progress can be seen in real time. And by the way, Sofy announced last week that she has received a five-week scholarship to Berklee College of Music People <not> in the know…

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Well, who wouldn’t? You’ve heard me mention ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’ hereabouts a few times. I looked and could not find that Mona and Lisa have ever covered this short song but they really should. The harmonies if they did would be just amazing. Here we have Sofy of SUKM with a release three weeks ago beautifully covering a Beatles…

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Ah yes, Jackie, that in fact is what I was speaking of. Good to hear that the Twins saw it.

I don’t know if this has previously been a topic of discussion and I’m not going to check all zillion articles here to find out. In a YouTube sidebar I found mention of a movie I have heard of which snuck in relatively unnoticed a few years ago. Called ‘Yesterday’. Simple premise = musician guy wakes up and finds he’s the only person in…

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I always heard of them as “Rogue Waves” but maybe that’s out in the open ocean. There’s a good one in the middle of ‘The Perfect Storm’.

Remember the famous black sand beach Mona and Lisa encountered last year on their birthday visit to Iceland? I believed they filmed parts of it with the drone for their music video. Well, reports are that severe storms and erosion have doomed the beach and it is virtually gone. Here is a brief story…

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As a bonus, here is a release from three days ago. It is the latest by Beatrice Florea of Shut Up. She just can’t hold still while singing and nearly every song she does she spreads her wings just that much further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVlcdoqyJ0&list=RDbJVlcdoqyJ0&start_radio=1

Yes, I came across the video with Ron Wood when looking at the unplugged offerings. Much impressed at how he always has looked mostly dead! My fav unplugged is probably ‘Everybody Hurts’, just because I like the original.

John, yes, just as I mentioned them here the oldest had to go off on a mission for a year and a half. But at their live concert in town there a little while back the other two did a great job, with ‘The Prayer’,fpr example.

There is a funny thing in ‘Unchained’. Maybe just typical sibling stuff. At about 15 seconds the bro on the left turns…

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I forgot to add that I do a lot of writing, a fanfiction about characters who fly F18s. One of them got her plane down to 90mph in flight, stalling alarms going off left and right. I forget the occasion. Oh yes, emergency landing on a carrier with no hook and no catapult attachment. Based on something read somewhere. And the comment was…

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She says she likes her 140 taildragger because it’s so simple to fly and so slow. She flew it cross country several times to Oshkosh and it was a solid five days from Camarillo. She usually mounts three high end GoPros with one on the wingtip on
each of her planes and lets them run. So, ten hours of flight gives her
thirty hours of video…

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Daryl, came across this pix in my files, thought it might amuse you. Stevie’s boyfriend Graham bought a Piper Cub, I think in Ann Arbor, and they took turns flying it back to Ventura. She said the plane was quite a change from her two. It was like flying a phone booth. She said it held about 10 gal of fuel and had a 52mph top speed. When it…

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She says that Lindsey Stirling is her hero and I see that Karolina has adopted some of Lindsey’s earlier dance moves before Linds got some professional training. Linds is twice+ her age and a consummate professional but takes the time to attend to those up and coming and even features some on her tours. For Karolina, attention from Dovydas…

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Unfortunately just as I was posting that I learned that it will be “2D” for the next year as Devon the oldest(?) is on his Mission, in Madrid. At their recent live concert we were able to see that the two can do a fine job and have beautiful voices together.

Thought these two YouTubes might interest you. I found that after many months she suddenly posted two weeks ago about her Cessna’s engine problems. She says she’s no mechanic–U of Mich EECS / Electrical Engineerng /Computer Science, same degree program my son went through–but the way she handles the terminology you could have fooled…

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Stevie stopped flying for ten months last year. Said she just couldn’t get up in the air. Gave the Bo it’s yearly exam and when she finally felt able to fly again….it was time for another yearly! She has a huge fanbase and a surprising number of them wrote in to say the same thing had happened or was happening to them now and they were…

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Hi folks, just as we endeavor to spread The Good Word about the Mona Lisa Twins far and wide, and just as I have made mention now and then of the mighty fine Romanian acoustic singers ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’, I would like to call your attention to some siblings. ‘Life in 3D’. There are three of them, yes, and their names all begin with ‘D’ and…

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Oh, and this one for sure makes one wonder what they are feeding Giulia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OvRvjXCYBQ

Stevie says she loves her swing-over. To each their own. Over the course of a couple years she had both her planes, the old one and the older one, rehabbed as to cosmetics in and out and with all new but antique-looking instrument panels. She says “no glass for me”. She never gave an amount but it must have cost an absolute fortune. It…

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Here’s a couple nice outfits. Not sure if they are all for singing =

People were sad to hear Maria left. She was not in so very many videos but her presence was always nice and quite noticeable via headphones. In a mini livestream Andrei had her hold up her phone – online flight lessons–and now they have turned in-person. I believe it’s general aviation for her so far. She would have been interested in YT…

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They have done Tennessee Whiskey at least two times, the one much better than the other, in my opinion. Lemme see, we want the one from 3 years ago where ‘Batteries’ looks like a dork from my 7th grade chemistry class. (I can relate the ‘Batteries’ story as needed). The other one was a solo by Giulia two years ago and she just had a bad day…

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(Hard to tell where to put a reply sometimes) It’s at least two years ago and is I think a performance at the music school. They sure love their Etta James. We have here Mr –Two-Guitars Andrei, on the occasion where people first found he could sing–, Ms– Burn a thousand calories before her turn– Beatrice and Ms –Stay up later than…

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Outdoors! Found this on the way to something else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV0HGl3XNEw&list=RDRV0HGl3XNEw&start_radio=1 And this is the one I was looking for. Maybe recorded in Andrei’s dad’s garage. Definitely gonna need some new windows after this. The original is much the same. There is some debate whether drummer is a boy or…

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It is amazing that Andrei starting at a young age–he is now 22–has assembled such a pool of talent to be found in one City. There are rather more who are sort of ‘graduates’ or only into heavy metal or other genres that I come across now and then. Rianna Rusu is one such. Not quite the eye candy that the ShutUp people are but she has…

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I know she’s done at least one other Nightwish cover, but forget the name. It would have to be hunted down. In this one when Andrea does his heavy metal posing you know it’s old because he dropped that when Shut Up went acoustic. In the process of looking something up I was reminded she had done a couple covers of ‘Dreamer’ by Ozzie and…

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Okay, I had this in mind and then could not find it for my previous post. There are several from a certain time frame and then more later on, like she has to be talked into it or something but now we have Sofy and her sax covering Stevie Wonder. When one sees closeups of the instrument it’s amazing anyone can play one at all! And so here…

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I have always liked Tom Jones and even enjoyed the infrequent times he spoke some Welsh for his fans and listeners. I think he might have had a periodic TV show back in the day, as well as a Christmas show. TV, because i never saw him live. I agree with your assessment of the Shut Up singers. I think Giulia does a fine job and has…

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Daryl you mentioned ‘three girls’ but let us not forget ‘Sofy’. She says half the women in her country are named Sophia so she made a change. On YouTube she’s ‘Sofy Singer’ because there’s a bunch of other Sofy stuff. She has a powerful voice and is noticeably improving with nearly every video. She is sort of standalone ‘junior varsity’ and…

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Doing some other things, I was reminded to send you these, a threesome. I don’t know to what extent you are a follower of Shut Up. Two are older–says 3 years but based on Andrei’s hair I would say more like 4 which means Beatrice was 16 and Andrei 17. (‘Beatrice’ is of course pronounced ‘Batteries’, which I think is a stitch)..Two…

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Have you seen this one? A couple of years ago by now. The word ‘masterpiece’ would apply here, I should think. It’s called the…Band’ because of the searing electric solo in the middle. Andre sings a bit too which was a surprise. Quite a strong backstory to the song by Kaz, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3O8TJf-LqE

Technically the electric guitar work is not SUKM because Andrei set up that group to be acoustic only. So it’s probably the Andrei Cerbu Band or such. He broke his own rule in their Kaz Hawkins cover by having a (blazing) electric solo in the middle of an otherwise acoustic song.

Unrelated = I just saw this snippet on Tik Tok. Every time…

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Glad you liked them! They also do a rousing version of ‘Radar Love’ out on the streets which may be of interest. It features a rarity = a botched start by Giulia who didn’t notice the song had started and which wasn’t fixed by an edit. And the Jason Mraz = his stuff is unique and fun to listen to and those two look like they really…

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Daryl I noticed their sound has changed since they moved to their casual studio setting and used hand held mikes and think we are now often hearing them live and it’s good. Andrei’s guitar work is amazing. If you haven’t seen it already, take a look at his picking in ‘Despacito’ where he goes off the rails with speed and…

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You folks may recall several times I have posted examples here of the fine work done by the young Romanian vocal group ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’. Well, here are some accolades received by them after a recent event when their passion for music paid off = “They confirmed what fans of SUKM already know -…

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