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jon
Young and J. Cash are a perfect example of why keeping
up with current music trends is important. The Myspace
Monsters landed a deal with Defient Entertainment
under Warner Music earlier this year, which only further
stirred up their bubbling careers.
How long ago did you become artists with Defient
Entertainment/Warner Music
Jon Young: We’ve been with them since the middle of
the year. Since about May or June. One of the investors
in the label was checking for the top artists on Myspace
and they contacted us through that.
Were you each doing your solo thing prior to teaming
up
J. Cash: We’ve been working together for about ten
years now. Jon Young happened to make his Myspace
page first and it took off. Then we created the Jon
Young and J. Cash page shortly after that. Myspace
thought it was a fake and deleted it so then we made
the J. Cash page. While we’re two separate people,
we’re still doing the Jon Young and J. Cash thing. We
didn’t want to have a group name; instead we wanted to
use each of our solo names to build a buzz for each of
us at the same time.
Jon Young: A lot of times in a group you don’t know
too much about the individuals. That’s why we kept our
names in the title.
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