Samantha Carlson and Miguel Castellanos agreed to start a musical collaboration on February 27, 2013. They met through BandMix.com. Even though they both came from jazz and instrumentals, they decided to explore the Singer/Songwriters genre writing pop/pop-rock songs. Samantha Carlson originally from Mineola, New York, has been singing since age 2. She graduated from Northern Kentucky University in May of 2011 with a Bachelors Degree in Vocal Performance. Music is her passion and her life. She sings the classic standards from the 1920s through today, as well as jazz, big band, show-tunes, country, oldies, classical, opera, and pop ... (English, Italian, Spanish, German, & French), but she identifies herself mainly as a jazz/standards singer. Raised in a musical family, both parents are vocalists and instrumentalists. Their influence was very strong. They always encouraged her passion for music, and to follow her dreams. Her other influences include Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole, Josh Groban, and Andrea Bocelli. In 2013, Samantha performed at a benefit concert for PBS SoCal in Orange County, CA, and continues to perform for fundraisers with JT and California Dreamin' in the Orange County area. She has performed alongside local and international celebrities such as Nick Clooney (2011,2012), Bucky & Martin Pizzarelli (2009), Maxine Brown (2007), Hilary Kole (2009, 2010), and Kevin Covais of American Idol (2006). Samantha has performed at "Birdland", the legendary jazz club in New York City, as a guest artist in 2009 and 2010. Since 2009, she has been the female vocalist for Swingtime Big Band -- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky/Indiana’s premiere 17-piece swing band. Samantha, along with Swingtime Big Band, performed at the 2009 opening night of the Cincinnati Red’s game. Samantha currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, performs with her jazz combo, and with several big bands, locally, and nationally. Miguel Castellanos, originally from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, showed strong fascination for music from an early age. Learned to play guitar on his own and immediately noticed that could learn songs from the radio just by ear. Played in several HS bands as bassist and rhythm guitar mainly. He always showed above average skills for the rhythm parts of the songs and also learned to play several percussion instruments by watching professional musicians. Later in life, playing music became more a relaxation act in between college, grad school studies and later on, work. Around 2008, he decided to go back into playing with a little more intensity than just relaxation and started to acquire different musical instruments and a recording console. One day, an inspiration came and recorded an instrumental and realized that it was really fun and fulfilling. Became a jazz indie artist in ReverbNation and up to date has recorded more than 30 original tunes. He has reached #1 in the RN's Cincinnati jazz charts on several occasions. This helped him get more confidence in music writing, which lead him to ask Samantha to collaborate with him. Greatest musical influences range from the traditional (The Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, etc), acoustics (America, CSN&Y, Cat Stevens, Acoustic Alchemy, etc), singer/songwriters (James Taylor, Carole King, Jim Croce, John Denver, etc), World Music (Sergio Mendes, Airto Moreira, Jobim, etc). Miguel currently lives in Mason, Ohio, which is just outside Cincinnati. In two years, they have written over 15 original songs. This EP contains 5 of them.