Interview: Band of the Week - Carmen & Camille

Carmen and Camille Thomas have made some noise with their debut CD Two and are banking on MTV to give them a bigger push into the big time.

Why shouldn’t they?

The 22-year old twins have made their career in large part due to television. Their song "I Will Never" played on MTV’s The Hills winning the Vancouver duo plenty of fans. Since then, songs from the album are set to be placed on My Super Sweet Sixteen, Next and Newport Harbor.

But the real excitement is still to come. The Thomas twins are in MTV’s “Battle of the Bands” contest in promotion of the new hit show Kaya . The duos’ single “Lose My Voice,” is in competition against songs by five other bands.

Carmen & Camille are taking the pressure in stride. Although they started singing together at age five, the shelved their dreams and went off to separate colleges. But it wasn’t long before they found their way back together musically.

Here’s a bit more about the duo and how they see their musical career moving ahead: 

What made you each decide to leave college and go into music?

Carmen: Our parents were in a band. Our mom was pregnant when she was performing, so we were on stage with her. As you can imagine, this all comes pretty naturally to us.

Camille: Our parents were very supportive of it. I think for Carmen it was harder [to not continue college]. She was on a TV show, on [a journalism career] path. Performing is in our blood. It is what makes us happy. For me, now is the time to do this; I couldn’t picture doing anything else.

So what is happening with you right now?

Camille: We are in Vancouver. We just got back from Boston where our band is based. Right now we are preparing a live DVD which is pretty exciting for us.

Carmen: We are also in the middle of the MTV contest that we are hoping to win. That is very exciting.

Your first album was fairly pop oriented. Was that a conscious decision when you were writing?

Camille: Some of the songs we had written a couple years ago and some we wrote right before we made the album. I was going through a break up at the time and some of the songs are about that. They are an accumulation of songs about growing up, youth, fun.

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