Jingle with the QUINCY ROCKERS!

(Seventeen) - Sasha Gonzalezzzzz gets up close and personal with World's Best Band, the QUINCY ROCKERS, and discovers an ambitious band who will definitely be the rising star in this music industry and have total control of their music destiny.


The Quincy Rockers are sure rocking the world thus far with another album release. Their sophomore album Jingle with the QRs is a Christmas Special, with soulful renditions of Christmas tunes arranged and performed by the QRs themselves!

The Quincy Rockers has sold millions of albums worldwide (their debut album Bringing Sexy Back, was just released last month), which is absolutely mind-blowing, considering the fact that these musicians are just 17! And in less than a month, the QRs have released yet another music album, which is flying off shelves twice the speed of that of their debut! Following their musical success, the Singapore Band will set off for their 2nd World Tour, Explosion. That's extremely good for a band who's only been in this industry for less than a year!

In town recently to promote their new album Jingle with the QRs, the QRs kindly agreed to hang out with us and let us delve into the secrets of their band's success:


17: Tell us about your new album, Jingle with the QRs.
Clara: Jingle with the QRs is a lot more soulful than our debut. In this album, we had a lot more freedom on our musical direction especially in music arrangement.
Xinru: Moreover, this time, Shiling [cellist of the QRs] could not be present for our album's recording due to her guest performance as the principal cellist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. However, she was also involved in the musical direction of this album as we had tons of video conferrences with her while she was touring.
Quincy: Ya.

17: Having churned out album after album, don't you guys find it tiring and feel like quiting?
QRs: Definitely not!
Xinru: Music is our passion, and our life! We love playing and composing and we'll never ever stop doing it!
Quincy: We're so pro[fessional] we could finish all these songs in one day!
Clara: It may be tiring, but we'll continuing with our music and churn out albums by the gazillion, for our fans, and for our love for music! In fact, we're currently working on our third album and have already recorded a few tracks.

17: Wow! You guys are really ambitious. Do you guys plan to do anything else besides music?
Quincy: Besides being musically talented, we can bake, cook, design fashion apparel, organise campaigns to boycott shark's fins, design our QR merchandise, write our own biographies, cause airline tickets to be soldout till a strike occurs at Changi Airport, disiguise ourselves as other famous stars [but why would they ever do that? people already love them for who they are!]. Oh not forgetting, I caused Rain to cry too! See, we can do lots of other stuff beside music, we're multi-talented!

17: How have your family and friends reacted to your success?
Clara: They've been very supportive. They're very proud and happy for everything that I, together with my band mates, have achieved so far.
Quincy: There were some of my friends who got a bit wierd with me when I became successful, especially after that incident when I made Rain cry. Maybe they were jealous or something, and they stopped being friends with me.

17: How do you deal with public interest in your life and the band's personal affairs?
Xinru: I think we're dealing it real well. I'm always flattered when fans come up to me and ask for my autograph, but at the same time, this life can get kind of crazy especially with the papparazi mobbing us.
Clara: But thank God we have our transformers to protect us!

17: What advice would you give youngsters with big dreams?
Quincy: Keep idolising the QRs and follow in our footsteps. You'll never go wrong.

17: Complete this sentence. The Quincy Rockers are...
QRs: The best band in the world!



WIN! Five autographed copies of the Quincy Rockers' Jingle with the QRs are up for grabs! Simply e-mail your contact details(name, NRIC, contactno.) to seventeen_promo@sph.com.sg (subject line: QUINCYROCKERS ROCK) Closing date: November 20, 2007