Early History
The brothers were raised in a house where music was a constant element of the household. Phil Cohran's "Circle of Sound" held rehearsals in the living room and put on live shows in the adjacent loft/theatre appropriately referred to as "the Sun Ark". This gave the brothers an early exposure to a higher quality of music. The brothers were obligated to wake up at 6 in the morning and play their horns before and after school. As adolescents, they played around Chicago as the "Phil Cohran Youth Ensemble", performing for the likes of Harold Washington, Nelson Mandela, and many other prominent figures of the day. As the brothers grew into high school, many of them set their horns aside and were engaged in some of the everyday trappings of inner-city lifestyle. Enduring the deaths of close friends and family, including brother Anthony Neal, close friend Robert Lock (for whom they later wrote a song entitled "Flipside"), and Level Todd (for whom their song "Todd" was written), they decided to pick their horns back up. In 1999, the brothers began taking to the subways of Chicago and presenting their music. Shortly after, they were a full fledged, 8-piece brass ensemble and by 2004 recorded their first project aptly entitled "Flipside". The brothers were raised vegetarian.
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