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not contain our excitement! We ending up singing “When Some- thing Is Wrong With My Baby” on the air for him with Sam standing two feet away from us. We were shaking a bit, but man it was so much fun! Nalani - In the last chorus of “When Something Is Wrong With My Baby” he actually joined in as a third harmony. That totally threw me off be- cause I did not expect to hear this soulful male voice. I’m like, “That’s Sam Moore singing with us!” By the end he invited us to come out and play with him at a City Winery gig. Hearing him with a full band on stage play what we were hearing in our cars was heaven for us. It was our dream come true. NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 8 Hate to do this, but I’ve to drag up a question about be- ing twins… in your TED talk you mentioned that people early on tried pushing you to use that as a gimmick. Did that really happen? Sarina - It was a little weird for us growing up because as we said in the TED talk music had always been a part of our lives and we purely saw the music. It was at the point when we were getting into the music business where we didn’t notice what other people were seeing. We weren’t trying to revolve any- thing around being twins, but when we were surrounded by certain people we definitely no- ticed it. I think it’s the business itself and how everything is so INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 18