ABC's 'The Queen Family Singalong': Who Is Alexander Jean?
ABC'sQueen Family Singalong aired on November 4 at 8pm and we're nonetheless singing all the songs. The particular was once to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the band and used to be hosted via Darren Criss. The Glee actor closed out the display with the band's biggest hit, "Bohemian Rhapsody."
This is the fourth installment of the singalong series, which started during the pandemic to carry joy to folks's lives right through the onerous time.
Artists corresponding to JoJo Siwa, Adam Lambert, One Republic, Fall Out Boy, Pentatonix, Jimmie Allen and Miss Piggy, among others all performed Queen's biggest hits. But there may had been one duo that you are not too familiar with.
Alongside Dancing With The Stars six-time champion, Derek Hough and his dancer girlfriend, Hayley Erbert, Alexander Jean delivered an impressive performance of "Another One Bites The Dust." If you're a fan of DWTS, you could have identified some of the individuals, but who precisely is the duo of Alexander Jean?
11 Mark Ballas
Mark Ballas is a two-time Dancing With the Stars Champion and has reached the finals many times, incomes him an Emmy nomination for his exceptional choreography. Ballas danced for 18 seasons before leaving the display to pursue different issues. He has launched solo song, been in a band known as The Ballas Hough Band and is the son of esteemed dancers Corky and Shirley Ballas. The 35-year-old has additionally starred on Broadway together with Jersey Boys and Kinky Boots. Ballas is married to singer/songwriter BC Jean.
10 BC Jean
Brittany Jean Carlson, identified professionally as BC Jean, is an American singer and actress. She is highest recognized for writing the track "If I Were A Boy," which was once later recorded by Beyonce and reached business success. Before assembly Ballas, BC released solo song, together with her first single "Just A Guy," being launched in 2010. She additionally starred in the internet collection, Talent. Now, the 34-year-old lives in Los Angeles with Mark and their canine, Hendrix.
9 How They Met
Ballas talked to InStyle mag about how him and BC met back in 2016. "A few years ago, a mutual friend of ours hosted an online concert where people could buy tickets that donated to charity, and both BC and I were on the bill. When I arrived, It was so packed that you literally could not move. BC was on stage, and I couldn’t see her—I could only hear her. I remember thinking, 'Wow. She’s got it going on.' She sounded like a mix of Janis Joplin and Stevie Nicks. I was expecting to see someone in their forties slugging whiskey, but I was in complete disbelief when the crowd cleared and I saw a gorgeous blonde." And the remaining was history.
Jean also informed her side of the story. "When Mark took the stage, my immediate thought was that he's super talented. He was doing a lot of hip thrusts and started flirting with me, but I was all about the business. I wanted to make sure that we could work together. Five and a half hours later, we were on a date, and we've been together ever since."
8 Forming The Duo
Alexander Jean changed into an legitimate duo in 2015. After courting for a couple of years, Mark and BC made up our minds to take their love of music and acting in combination and do something positive about it. The name Alexander Jean comes from both of their center names. Their debut single, "Roses and Violets" reached the top 20 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot One hundred chart. In 2018, they were picked as Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month and feature since carried out at the Today, DWTS, Holidays With The Houghs and Grammy pre-shows.
7 Their Wedding
They began courting in 2015, were given engaged in 2015 and exaclty twelve months afterward November 25, 2016, they were given married in a ravishing ceremony in Malibu, CA. Ballas' absolute best pal, Derek Hough, served as his best guy and their dog was once the ring bearer. Their bohemian-chic wedding was once whole with a wonder dance from the couple, BC walking down the aisle to an instrumental model of "Bohemian Rhapsody." They even released a tune referred to as "Paper Planes," which was resemblant of their vows that they wrote on paper planes.
6 Alexander Jean's First EP And Tour
The identical year they got married, they launched their first EP, Head High, as a duo. The EP featured six tracks with Jean's tough vocals and Ballas' superb musicianship. Head High charted on the Singer/Songwriter chart and had jumpstarted their career. They went on a mini tour around the U.S. or even opened for the band, R5, who just so occur to be cousins of the Houghs, on the New Addictions Tour.
5 Their Second EP
Their 2nd EP, High Enough, was launched the next 12 months, which contained "Paper Planes" and four different songs including the name monitor. Once once more, they charted on the Singer/Songwriter chart on iTunes and sooner or later reached primary with each EPs. All of their music is available to circulation on maximum platforms.
Since then, they have got launched a large number of singles, covers and collaborations with Lindsey Stirling ("Stampede") and Casey Abrams ("We Three Kings"). Their non album singles and covers include "Waiting For You," "Dreams," "Vulnerable," "Pain" and "Toe Tag."
4 'Holidays With The Houghs'
Holidays With the Houghs was a 2019 TV special that featured dance and comedy sketches from Derek and Julianne Hough and performances from artists and pals. Alexander Jean carried out a cover of the song, "O Holy Night" at the particular, which received consideration from viewers and brought about them to unencumber extra Christmas songs together with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" and "We Three Kings."
3 Alexander Jean's TikTok Fame
Who did not join TikTok throughout the pandemic? The duo started posting their covers and songs on the app and their movies began racking up views and likes. They proportion acoustic versions of their songs, in the back of the scenes dance events, studio classes and more. They these days have 450k followers and counting. Fans love seeing their dating shine through in their movies.
2 'Coming Down'
Just this 12 months, after after all being signed to a file company, Parts And Labor Records, Alexander Jean launched their 3rd EP, Coming Down, in July. The EP options six songs including the name tracks and one cover- "Sex & Candy" by the band Marcy Playground. The video for their disguise on TikTok gained over 1.2 million perspectives. They had been going to accomplish a select few displays round Texas this yr, but for the reason that pandemic is still looming over us, they decided to push them back until 2022. Hopefully, extra states will probably be added as well.
1 Queen Singalong
Now, that you realize everything you'll possibly know about the duo, let's discuss their performance at the Queen Family Singalong. Fans were given to hear Jean's tough voice and Ballas' guitar talents on a cover of "Another One Bites the Dust" whilst Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert, along with Hough's Vegas residency dancers, delivered a stunning efficiency in front of them. The cover is now available on their Spotify page. We can't wait to see what they have in retailer for the rest of the 12 months and 2022.
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