June 20, 2010
Cambio is all about connecting you to your favorite celebrities. Before Joe Jonas departs from Africa, where he has been busy visiting various schools and orphanages, he took the time to answer some of your twitter questions from @cambioconnect.
@ahofficial asked: What would you do if you were not making music?
@judiila asked: Did you guys ever feel like just giving up on reaching your dreams?
Find out Joe’s answers below. Make sure to follow @cambioconnect on twitter. You never know when we’ll be asking you for more questions for your favorite celebrities. You may see yours answered right here on Cambio.com!
Also, before heading back to the US, Joe will be making a stop in London to support Nick at opening night of Les Misérables.
By Jacqueline Cutler, Zap2It | June 16, 2010
Take away the hit TV show and the screaming hordes of tween girls, and you have three brothers who love to make music.
Granted, the Jonas Brothers are more famous than any other sibling trio — so famous that incredibly massive bodyguards protect them. Yet despite kicking off a three-month tour July 27, Kevin’s fairly new marriage, Joe’s sputtered romance with Disney starlet Demi Lovato and the paparazzi constantly chronicling their lives, the JoBro seem remarkably grounded.
They’re sequestered in a Manhattan hotel, happy to talk music and explain how, for them, music is enmeshed with acting.
They have a lot of both coming up: the tour; the launch of their revamped Disney show, “Jonas L.A.,” on Sunday, June 20; and the sequel to “Camp Rock,” “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam” premiering Sept. 3.
Before TV catapulted them to superstardom, it was all about the music. They started as musicians, backing up Nick, 17, who turned pro at 6.
He performed in Broadway plays — “A Christmas Carol,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Les Miserables” — then came back to his home state of New Jersey and performed in “The Sound of Music” at Milburn’s Paper Mill Playhouse.
“The initial idea was being around other young people who loved to do what I did,” Nick says of musical theater.
Kevin recalls being very young when he was first drawn to the stage.
“There was an open call for a remake of ‘(Miracle on) 34th Street,’ and I got pretty far in the process,” he says. “I loved it (acting), and it was fun and a passion, but music always took the No. 1 seat.”
The brothers are seated around a large table in a hotel conference room that looks out on a drenched Central Park. Kevin wonders if that night’s Yankees game will be canceled because of rain.
“For me, music is something that always feels comfortable,” Joe says. “Acting is something I want to do. In L.A. now I’m taking meetings. It’s been really awesome.”
The new show, as the title broadcasts, places the brothers in Los Angeles. They are in an exquisite house, which comes with a pool and an annoying neighbor. There are starlets, the sights of Los Angeles, but for these young men, there’s always the music. And the show works best during the musical numbers.
Their new song, “L.A. Baby,” featured on the show has a segment easily lifted out for a music video. In it, they do some California cruising — Kevin gets a sweet convertible that runs best on Chinese restaurant oil. There are girls and goofy scenes, but it’s truly a Disney music video, and parents need not worry.
“Driving down the highway with a California breeze in my hair,” Nick sings.
He segues easily between drums and guitar and also plays piano and cello. Nick is very intense as he delves into his music, but his older brothers, particularly Kevin, keep spirits light.
The brothers are obviously close and music only cements that bond. Their 2008 CD, “A Little Bit Longer,” went multiplatinum. Last year’s “Lines, Vines and Trying Times” includes the song “World War III,” featuring the amazing horn section from Earth Wind & Fire.
The Jonas Brothers have also worked with Stevie Wonder and Brad Paisley. It was probably expected that they would stick with the tried pop music formula, but they’ve ventured into R&B and country.
Like most musicians, they’re fans of many artists. Kevin lights up as he talks up seeing Paul McCartney in concert. He was so excited he could not stay in his seat.
“The person me kept telling me to sit down,” he says, adding that he was unable to. “It was just amazing.”
They hope to electrify their fans as their North American tour takes them from smaller clubs to amphitheaters.
“As a band, the No. 1 priority from the beginning is we strive to write more music, that’s more honest in our lyrics,” Joe says. “And we want to write music through our lives.”
“Personally, we want to continue where we are in all of our lives,” Kevin says. “I love to tour. It’s a lifestyle. You become used to it.”
SONNY WITH A CHANCE & JONAS LA PROMISE BIG SUNDAY NIGHT FOR DISNEY
June 17, 2010Only 3 days until a big night of premieres on Disney Channel!
Sunday night kicks off with part 2 of the “Sonny With a Chance” episode, “Falling for the Falls” at 8pm EST. In “Falling for the Falls Part 2,” Sonny and Chad (Demi Lovato & Sterling Knight) have been keeping their relationship a secret for weeks from their fellow “So Random!” and “Mackenzie Falls” cast mates. When the studio decides to end the feud between the two shows, Chad is set up on a date with Tawni (Tiffany Thornton) and ‘Chawni’ quickly becomes the Hollywood “it” couple. Sonny, not a fan of the coupling, shows up at a Mackenzie Falls party with her own special date.
Next up at 8:25pm EST is the premiere of Selena Gomez’s new music video for “Round and Round.”
Then at 8:30pm EST is the highly anticipated season premiere of “JONAS L.A.”!! Kevin, Joe, Nick, Stella & Macy have packed up and headed to Los Angeles for a summer of fun, music and romance. In the premiere episode titled “House Party,” the gang arrives in Los Angeles to begin a summer vacation they will never forget. Their gregarious neighbor, DZ (Adam Hicks), convinces the guys to throw a house party to announce their arrival and Nick invites Emma Roberts to the party.
We know what we’ll be doing Sunday night. Make sure to tune in and then tweet us what you thought of the episodes.
Also below, check out some fun photos that Nicole Anderson has been tweeting as a countdown until the premiere.
enews — June 17, 2010 — Go behind-the-scenes with the Disney trio as they prepare for the second season of their hit show “Jonas.”
June 16, 2010
Joe Jonas met up with Prince William today at the Coaching for Conservation in Maun Botswana. The event was centered around teaching kids life lessons through soccer, sports, and good coaching.
Initially Joe was only supposed to play one set, but ended up being personally requested by the Prince himself to play an additional one! The two handsome young men got to chat and get to know each other pretty well.
Joe says, “Being able to collaborate with Prince William to bring awareness to the kids of Botswana was a very special experience. It was a great way to show the children they have the world in front of them and can be whatever they want to if they put their mind to it. Meeting the Prince was a true honor and hopefully we can work together again.”
4,000 people being in the presence of those two boys must have been incredible. I’m sure we all hope for them to work together again too!
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: JOE JONAS IN AFRICA
June 15, 2010Joe Jonas has been hard at work since he has been in Africa. He has visited every middle school in Maun and spoke about giving life your all and being all you can be in front of 5,000 people! This past weekend he also gave a free concert to 1,000 adorable kids singing every single word to all his songs.
Joe says, “I thought I had seen so much in my life already but it was like starting over when I got here. Everyone and everything is so beautiful and full of life”.
Joe has even had the opportunity to visit orphan babies and play soccer with kids from Love Botswana school. It is incredible the way someone can change peoples lives like Joe has been doing in Africa. This trip seems to be amazing and from the pictures you can tell how heartwarming it really is!
Go to our facebook page and let us know if you could go anywhere in the world to make a difference where would you go?!
ETA: I don’t like how this reporter was, but I thought I needed to post it cause Cambio is tomorrow and it talks about the Jonas Brothers being involved in Cambio. Do support Cambio.com and check it out, the first episode of the mini series starts tomorrow!
BY DAN NOSOWITZ
June 14, 2010AOL’s been having a tough half-decade or so, but are looking to turn things around with a new content partnership with none other than the tween obsession of the moment, the Jonas brothers.
Cambio, a partnership between AOL and the Jonas Group (that is the actual name of the company; it’s run by the father of the Jonas Brothers and also represents other tween idols like Demi Lovato and Jordin Sparks), is a new video project that will be launching this Tuesday. The closest analogy I can come up with is a more heavily branded Funny Or Die. You can watch a video teaser for the series on Facebook.
The Jonas Group will be providing several different web shows, including an entertainment talk show, a late-night talk show, a “docudrama” starring one of the several dozen Jonas brothers (just an estimate), and other webisode series. To give an idea, the first series is called “Nick in London”, a miniseries about Nick Jonas gearing up to perform in a London production of Les Miserables.
There will also be copious ads– both sponsored videos and traditional banner ads. One example is “Cambio Cares”, a Bayer-sponsored series.
This new site isn’t likely to turn all of AOL around, but as far as this kind of commercial tie-in goes, they could do a lot worse than the Jonas crew. The Jonas Group has proven adept at marketing their product (also known as young singers/dancers/actors/whatever) to their screaming tween demographic in all sorts of ways, and the rabid fans will probably tune in to Cambio as well. What they’ll do in a year when the Jonas brothers aren’t cute anymore, well, that’s a thought for another time.
ETA: Finally some news about Joe in Africa!
By Letta Abel
Joe Jonas, a member of the popular Jonas Brothers band is in town.
The teenage singing sensation from the United States is here by invitation of the Love Botswana Outreach Mission. Jonas told The Ngami Times that he is enjoying his time in Maun and that the fun part of his visit is spending time with the children and seeing their happy faces which inspire him and hopes to inspire them as well with his music. He is visiting all secondary schools in Maun as a celebrity guest in the Reach4life series of awareness sessions.
He will hold a live music concert at the All Nations’ Village Church tent on Sunday (June 13) at 4pm and on June 16 is to be At the Maun stadium with British royal Prince William and South African soccer star Lucas Radebe.
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