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Identical twin brothers Robert and Steven Morris are graduates of Fordham University and Berklee College of Music. While at Berklee, they were the recipients of several scholarships, songwriting awards, and graduated magna cum laude.

Native New Yorkers, their musical lives began by studying classical piano at the age of 7. While continuing their classical studies through their teen years, they began to teach themselves bass and guitar; fueled by a steady diet of rock and roll, garage bands and trouble.

Their songwriting, singing, playing and producing can be heard on numerous recordings, including their two Morris Brothers Band albums Stand Out and Pop The Trunk. Their new album, One Less Dream, (produced by Paul Boutin and recorded at Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds studio in Los Angeles) will be released on October 23, 2007. When asked about their new record, they say, “we tried to create a cinematic type of experience where the listener becomes immersed in a world of sound and emotion, but comes back to it again and again to discover new things.”

Robert and Steven also have songs on the twice Tony nominated Daphne Rubin-Vega’s (Rent/Wild Things/Anna in the Tropics) recent release Redemption Songs.

In addition to pop music, the brothers are hard at work preparing for their Broadway debut as composer/lyricists with the new musical Once Around The Sun. The show is expected to open on Broadway in the 2007-2008 season following a successful Off-Broadway run at the Zipper Theatre in 2005. When reviewing the show for Time Warner’s NY1, Roma Torre commented, “each song is a gem propelling the story and deepening the characters…how thrilling to discover that the music in the show is so joyously liberating” and the Morris Brothers “have an album coming out…they are names to be remembered.” Once Around The Sun has also been licensed for production at the Parco Theatre in Tokyo, Japan; and is currently in development to be made into a feature film.

As instrumentalists, sidemen, and performers, Robert and Steven are continually in demand for sessions and live performances. Their weekly acoustic set on Manhattan’s Restaurant Row is a must see for locals and world travelers alike. You can also find them playing in the orchestras of numerous Broadway shows which have included Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Wedding Singer, Hot Feet and Good Vibrations. For a time, they could be seen as the Mad Cloning Scientists on The Late Show with David Letterman.