HelenaMaria

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HelenaMaria is an American indie pop-rock group from New Jersey comprised of identical twins Helena and Maria Mehalis.

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[edit] Biography

Born in New Brunswick, NJ, Helena and Maria grew up in a self described "free-spirited" environment promoting artistic expression. Since the age of 4 they had taken classical piano lessons and sang in their church choir. Also at the age of 4 they landed their first national commercial, later becoming members of the Screen Actor’s Guild. They were home-schooled until 7th grade. In their sophomore year in high school they learned to play the guitar, and songwriting soon followed. They later began performing at venues as much as possible all over New Jersey, New York City, and Pennsylvania.

Helena and Maria are identical twins, however Helena is right-handed and plays guitar fretting on the left hand and strumming on the right, while Maria is left-handed and plays it the opposite.

Helena and Maria write songs to reflect a variety of feelings and topics based on their life experiences. Maria explains: “Life experiences inspire me, but it’s also observations of what others are going through, which could be completely irrelevant to my life, that somehow affect me, as well as my sister.”

Musically their skills on the piano and guitar are nearly identical, but they maintain that their songwriting style and vocals are slightly different.

On January 1, 2007 their first album was released under the record label Mirror Image Records entitled, Serene, a collection of all original songs that they wrote together.

[edit] HelenaMaria In Popular Culture

  • HelenaMaria won Wrigley's Battle Of The Bands to qualify for the mtvU Campus Invasion Tour 2007.
  • HelenaMaria's song "Let Me Breathe" was featured on MTV's The Hills the week of 10/1/07.
  • HelenaMaria were featured on mtvU's "Meet Or Delete".
  • HelenaMaria were featured on CW11's "Spotlight On" series on 12/11/07. (WPIX New York)
  • HelenaMaria are scheduled to have their song "Our Secret Place" featured in an upcoming movie, In My Sleep by Morning Star Pictures.

[edit] Line-up

Main article: HelenaMaria members

[edit] Current members

  • Helena Mehalis – Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar
  • Maria Mehalis – Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

[edit] Discography

Main article: HelenaMaria discography

[edit] Studio albums

[edit] References

  • HelenaMaria.com. Biography. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  • MySpace.com. Biography. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  • mtvu.com. HelenaMaria In Popular Culture. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  • HelenaMaria.com. HelenaMaria In Popular Culture. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  • HelenaMaria.com. HelenaMaria In Popular Culture. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  • mtvu.com. HelenaMaria In Popular Culture. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.
  • weblogs.cw11.com. HelenaMaria In Popular Culture. Retrieved on February 21, 2008.


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