2 CELLOS: Welcome To The Jungle
2CELLOS – Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser playing their arrangement of Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N’ Roses…
Šulic, born in Maribor, Slovenia, and Hauser, from Pula, Croatia, met at a master class in Croatia while still in their teens. Šulic – the younger of the two by a year—and Hauser attended the Academy of Music in Zagreb together, and both then traveled to study in Vienna. Šulic later entered London’s Royal Academy of Music, while Hauser attended the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The duo rose to fame after their cover of “Smooth Criminal” became a hit on YouTube, receiving over three million views in the first two weeks and more than five million views in all. The creation of the music video was prompted by the cellists’ financial difficulties, despite their musical success in the UK. The duo met in Pula, where one of Hauser’s friends, a director, proposed that they try the pop music market by creating a video to “Smooth Criminal.” The video, originally posted on 20 January 2011, features Šulic and Hauser facing off alone in a large white room, playing Jackson’s tune. In fact, before they became partners, the two cellists were sometimes considered rivals, competing against each other in music contests…
Although the two record covers of mainly rock songs, Šulic and Hauser say they still play with orchestras and will not abandon playing classical music. The cellists say they would someday like to go on tour with both a classical and a contemporary orchestra…
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Directed by: Kristijan Burlovic
Director of photography: Kristijan Burlovic
Camera: Kristijan Burlovic, Igor Burlovic and Boris Plastic
Editing & post: Ivan Stifanic
Technical support: http://www.medvid.hr
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Tags: 2 cellos, Boris Plastic, Guns N' Roses, Igor Burlovic, Ivan Stifanic, Kristijan Burlovic, Luka Sulic, Stjepan Hauser, Welcome To The Jungle
