With high aspirations of performing all over the world, these Murrysville twins will always have a special place in their hearts for family and community.
Murrysville’ s Edwards twins never suspected they’ d one day be on national television in the quarterfinals of one of television’ s most popular shows.“ We’ ve been performing all our lives,” says Colton.“ It’ s crazy to think we went from performing at Apple Hill Playhouse in Delmont to the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles!”
Colton and Trent Edwards, 17, are the sons of Kevin and Gia Edwards and the younger brothers of Kevin Edwards, Jr. Prior to the show, they attended Franklin Regional High School and both are currently juniors at Westinghouse Arts Academy.
The twins have always loved to sing, act and dance, and began pursuing their passions on the Apple Hill Playhouse stage.“ Performing at Apple Hill really helped us to become comfortable with performing on stage and in front of people,” says Trent. The two also performed in high school musicals at FRHS.
“ We absolutely love to entertain!” says Colton.“ For‘ America’ s Got Talent,’ we wanted to come up with something really unique.”
And so the duo decided on a singing and dancing act called Mirror Image.“ The name‘ Mirror Image’ actually came from a funny story,” recalls Trent.“ We were staying at a hotel and Colton and my dad went down to the gym— we were 9 years old at the time. The gym wall was covered in mirrors and Colton looked at one of the mirrors and said‘ Hey Trent! What are you doing here?’ True story!” The boys really are mirror twins, meaning they have physical characteristics that are the same but on opposite sides.
Advancing to the quarterfinals of the show, the duo sang Queen’ s“ Somebody to Love” and then danced to Bell Biv DeVoe’ s“ Poison” and Kriss Kross’“ Jump.” They received a standing ovation from all three judges in this round, but didn’ t receive enough votes to advance further in the competition.
Colton and Trent plan to continue their music careers. They released their first single—“ From Many Men”— in December. Since then, they have written and produced four other singles that will be released in the near future.
While continuing to study voice, dance and theater at Westinghouse Arts Academy, they also take dance classes at Appolonia Leake Dance Company with Appolonia Leake and Miranda Maleski. Both plan to attend college at some point, but are undecided on a major.“ In addition to the arts, we’ re strong in math and science,” notes Trent.
With high aspirations of performing all over the world, these Murrysville twins will always have a special place in their hearts for family and community.
In June 2017, Mirror Image debuted on“ America’ s Got Talent.” The boys worked with Jerome Kirkland on music production and to come up with harmonies for the show.“ He is amazingly talented, and we couldn’ t have done it without him!” they say.
The duo attended the open call auditions in Ohio.“ Our parents agreed to take us as a birthday gift,” explains Trent.“ We honestly didn’ t think we had a chance after meeting the amazing talent that showed up to audition that day.”
Though nervous, as soon as they hit the stage, the twins were ready to perform. Their audition consisted of singing The Jackson 5’ s“ Who’ s Lovin’ You” following a dance to The Black Eyed Peas song“ Pump It.” Moving on to the Judge Cuts round, they sang“ California Dreamin’” by The Mamas & The Papas and danced to Sia’ s“ The Greatest.”
“ But we’ re so loving the entertainment industry! We’ re not quite sure where things will take us, but we can’ t wait to find out!”
Recently, the duo has been asked to participate in the WYEP 91.3 FM Reimagination Project. They will record a single at the Church Recording Studio and perform it this summer at the Pittsburgh music and arts festival.
With high aspirations of performing all over the world, these Murrysville twins will always have a special place in their hearts for family and community.“ We wouldn’ t be anywhere if it wasn’ t for our family,” says Colton.“ We have the most amazing parents and they have always supported us in following our dreams and passions.”
For more information about Mirror Image, visit the Facebook Page @ OfficialMirrorImage. n
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