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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, the Miami-born and raised musicians down the popular duo radical Magdalena Bay, are getting tons of attraction lately, including being named Best Pop Act 2021 by Miami News Times past month.
That came arsenic a large astonishment to them.
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“We didn’t cognize astir it until it came out,” said Lewin.
“My dada is truthful cute, he’s ever Googling us. So helium saw it and neither of america nor anyone connected our squad truly knew it happened. He sent america the nonfiction and we were similar awesome,” Tenenbaum said.
Tenenbaum and Lewin, who are a mates some personally and professionally, met successful 2011 astatine an after-school euphony programme successful North Miami they attended portion successful precocious school. They formed a stone set called Tabula Rasa, which, CBS4’s Lisa Petrillo cognize a batch about, her lad was a guitarist successful the band.
“Full disclosure,” Petrillo told them, “I knew you guys erstwhile you were successful precocious school.”
“Yes. Matt and I met astatine Live! Modern School of Music. We some grew up successful Miami. We enactment this set unneurotic and started playing stone covers and yet started making our ain stone songs and that’s however we started enactment unneurotic similar 10 years agone now,” said Tenenbaum.
In conscionable 2 years, since they’ve moved to Los Angeles, Magdalena Bay has been featured successful Rolling Stone Magazine, Pitchfork, Miami New Times, and galore more. Their dependable is present each pop, inspired by Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, and Madonna to sanction a few.
“Yeah, I deliberation it’s conscionable popular music. It doesn’t person a batch of boundaries. There’s a batch of antithetic places that popular euphony tin go,” Lewin said.
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They’re besides getting eyes connected their euphony done their throwback, kitschy-cool videos posted each implicit societal media, which they sprout and edit themselves retired of their tiny apartment.
“I’m similar ‘oh my God, I’m successful a set and we don’t person wealth for videos. I conjecture we volition marque them ourselves’,” Tenenbaum said.
“It started successful the spot of a necessity, similar benignant of needing ocular contented but we truly fell successful emotion with extending the Magdalena Bay satellite into the visuals. We’ve had truthful overmuch fun. It’s truly what it’s about, reasoning astir the dumbest and silliest ideas and coolest ideas and benignant of bringing them to life,” she added.
Magdalena Bay’s popularity continues to grow. They present person much than 35 videos connected YouTube. They’re releasing a caller medium called Mercurial World this week, but some are staying focused and grounded.
“How does it feel?” asked Petrillo.
“I deliberation we’re conscionable trying to support our heads down and enactment engaged and can’t deliberation excessively overmuch of successful those terms,” Lewin said.
“We’re wholly conscionable keeping engaged and blessed to spot the feedback truthful acold and anticipation that much radical support proceeding it,” said Tenenbaum.
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Mercurial World drops October 8th. You tin find Magdalena Bay connected each euphony and societal media platforms on with YouTube.
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