Darnell "Jaye Pharaoh” Black (25) and Tramaine "Cool Sade” Black (23) are brothers who complete the Hip Hop duo "Creative Minds". Facing adversities growing up in Compton, California, Pharaoh and Sade turned to music as the main Avenue to not only stay out of trouble in the streets but voice their opinions in a positive manner. Pharaoh taught himself how to produce beats and engineer in High School at the age of Fourteen and has not stopped since. After dropping their first mixtape and performing at a couple of local venues, Pharaoh enrolled into Los Angeles Film School to augmented his craft and skill set and apply it to their music. After years of preparation Pharaoh and Sade finally feel as though their music is not just a copy of other popular artists on the radio and is not a bunch of word repeating lyrics, but is a style of their own with a message behind it, and is ready for the world to consume. Their music is influenced by some of their favorite artist which include Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Jay Z, and Kanye West just to name a few.

Keram, (not to be confused with the European 'DJ Keram') is an accomplished musician, film and television actor, is an out-of-the-box artist. His new album, Come To Life, executive produced by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, is a sprawling, other-worldly rock adventure that took an army of about 30 musicians, whose collective credits include Coheed & Cambria, Zappa Plays Zappa, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Mary Margaret O’Hara, and of course Rush.

The 10-song opus is an unpredictable hybrid of Americana, new age, electronica, roots, rock, theatre, experimental, jazz, pop, and then some.  It ends with the 21-minute title track. Recorded in Toronto and LA, Keram chose the musicians for their improvisation skills, including Lifeson who appears on “Devil Knows Me Well,” “Mary Magdalene” and “Moving Dark Circles.” The album was mastered by Andy Vandette (Rush, David Bowie, Dream Theater) and “Mary Magdalene” was mixed by Rich Chycki (Rush, Dream Theater, Aerosmith).

As an actor — who has appeared in the films American History X, Punisher: War Zone, Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy and Texas Chainsaw 3D and TV shows True Blood, The Mentalist, Saving Grace and The L Word — Keram (Malicki-Sanchez) brings that expression to his music too, writing from other people’s perspective, adopting character perspectives to explore his themes.

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