Today we’d like to introduce you to Charles Njoroge and Tony Moore.
Charles and Tony, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
Charles: We met during our freshman year of college by spending time in the same friend group and realized, shortly after, that we were both musicians. we would meet irregularly to play music together over the next three years until Tony reached out to me about 8 months ago. He wanted me to come by and play music with him at a Farmer’s Market.
I accepted, the reasoning being: we’d be getting paid to do something we’d been doing for years for fun. After our performances, people immediately started asking us for business cards for bookings and it wasn’t long before we’d become a proper band playing everything from private parties to concert venues like the House of Blues! It’s been quite the ride.
Tony: Charles summed it up pretty well. I never thought I’d be doing something like this: performing and making music. It never really crossed our minds going into college.
Charles went into Mech. Engineering Tech. and I went into Biology (not really the fields you would expect for people planning on pursuing music as a career). It’s pretty cool how this band idea kind of just fell into place. We’re definitely going to keep the ball rolling with this one.
Has it been a smooth road?
Charles: The primary struggle for me has been scheduling issues! We’re both full-time students and I work full-time. We’re both STEM majors: Mechanical Engineering Technologies for me and Biology for Tony, so we’ve got pretty full plates as is. Throwing music into the mix has definitely been an experience, but aside from that, everything has been rather smooth.
Tony: School has definitely been rough lately. I’m enjoying it more as I approach graduation. Another one for me has just been interacting with people in a field that I’m very new to (the music biz). I know music pretty well in general, but the business and logistical side to it is all new news to me. I’ve been getting more accustomed to it as I go on, but have a lot of growing to do.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Juicebox Caviar – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
Charles: Well, our band has its hand in a variety of genres and a unique combination of instruments: nobody really expects to see a dude with a ukulele jamming with a guy with a violin. nobody expects those two instruments to produce hip-hop infused indie music with a pinch of pop . . . along with everything else we play. bring it all together with the loop station we’re carrying around, creating some songs from scratch live in front of our audience, and I think all of that ends up setting us apart from most other acts.
Tony: One thing is for sure: We jam. When we jam together, we vibe off of each other, and that energy just exponentiates. A lot of the songs that Juicebox Caviar has made have come from an emotional or reflective part of our minds and when people have listened to our music they’ve commented on the musicality, the lyrics, the overall vibe and they’ve shared what they felt while listening. It’s great that our music has evoked such a positive and empathetic feeling from our listeners and we plan on continuing to spread those good vibes.
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
Charles: The diversity. it’s so rich in different cultures and lifestyle and there’s always something or someone to learn from. I love that and that has a lot to do with the kind of person I am today and how I view the world and people around me. as for what I like least: traffic sucks.
Tony: The food. Houstonians know how to cook. Also, even as a big metropolitan city, the people here are pretty nice. Of course, every place has its not so nice people, but I rarely see them. I’m going to have to agree on traffic. There’s construction everywhere you turn that seems to never get done.
Contact Info:
- Phone: 8323983747
- Email: juiceboxcaviar@gmail.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/juiceboxcaviar
- Facebook: facebook.com/juiceboxcaviar
- Twitter: twitter.com/juiceboxcaviar
Image Credit:
Fredis Benitez, Elvis Alvarez, Danielle Mitchell, Zak Pham
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