Jonathan Cartwright-vocals,
James Stauber-all music (guitars, bass, keys, programming, etc), vocals,
Influences
erasure, u2, cold play, killers, ah-ha, color factory, nin, savage garden and Darren Hayes scopians, billy idol (james influences) smashing pumpkins, iron maiden, beatles, light house family, my dying bride, emorphus, type o negative, (jonathan influences)kill hannah, oasis, inxs, nikki sixx, michael sweet, anything box, michelle tumes
Sounds Like
u2,color factory,cold play, killers, savage garden, darren hayes, beirut, irion maiden, erasure
1975-4/19/1975 Jonathan Cartwright was born in a little town in the Texas Panhandle, Borger Texas, USA
1976-9/26/1976 James Stauber was born in a little town which its meaning translates to Evil town, Zlin, Moravia, Czech Republic.
1995-is when Jonathan and James were introduced at a youth conference by a mutual friend. James was looking for a singer for his metal band Kore. Jonathan just demod a synth-pop song which James liked. Although Jonathan did not end up joining the band James and Jonathan started collaborating together and performing together for Special music in surrounding Churches under the name Unconditional.
1996-James started singing for Kore with a line up change and band name change to follow, which was called Embrace. James and Jonathan wanted to play other places besides churches and were getting more serious with their music also and changed there name to E-motion.
1997-Embrace released their first of 3 EPs. E-motion recorded 3 songs but did not release them, due to James moving back to the Czech Republic putting E-motion and Embrace on hold.
1998- Found Jonathan moving out of Chicago to explore the US. September of 1998 James moved back to Chicago to start working on the EP EmbraceII, which was released the next year.
1999- Jonathan moved back to Chicago to reconvene E-motion with James. E-motion started working on a 14 song CD.
2000- Embrace released its 3rd and final EP The Omnipotence Theory. Embrace broke up at that time due to losing band members, for various reasons. James being the main collaborator to the Embrace songs decided to go solo. While E-motion continued to work on their CD.
2001- After a lot of work in a two year span E-motion released there self titled CD which is still available upon request.
2002- E-motion called it quits officially although James and Jonathan performed acoustic sets from time to time through 2005.
2003- James released his first solo full length CD Precious Moments.
2004- James released the EP Lost Dreams.
2005- Jonathan moved to TN but came up to record some new songs with James who built a new home studio where he has recorded a lot of material released as singles on his web site and his myspace page.
2006- Jonathan decided to leave TN to move back to Chicago to work on another Full length CD with James.
2007- E-motion changed its name to Forget December and started demoing for an upcoming CD. James released his acoustic CD (Songs for the loneliest girl in the universe.) A follow up to Lost Dreams.
2008-We built on to the studio, enough to record our CD there. Kept demoing and releasing tracks on myspace. James released double CD early 2008 (to aerial with evol) Forget December played an acoustic show in November for a Book release party for authoress Jacqu'ee Thomas.
2009-We are picking up the pace in the studio and are hoping to mix and master 20 songs or so by May. CD release to follow. James is also in the process of recording a new pop CD, and a new black metal CD with a touch of classical recorded with professional Opera singers. stay tuned for details. All Of James Cd's are for sale on his website. A Forget December official website will launch later this year.
Che tutte le cose brutte possano essere cancellate definitivamente dalla mente delle persone senza scrupoli e che nulla possa intralciare i nostri sogni...sarà un'utopia, ma la speranza è una cosa buona e va coltivata.
J&J
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