Hi Everyone! We wanted to share with you this article featuring MJ2 in the December Issue of “Diabetes Forecast” Magazine. Here is an excerpt of the online version. Click the link to view the article on their website!

http://forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/features/teamwork-banding-together-tackle-diabetes 

There really is strength in numbers. Look at these success stories

By Tracey Neithercott

MJ2
Las Vegas

MJ2 (from left): Jackie Singer, daughters Jackie and Mollie, and sister Mollie Miller.

Let’s get something out of the way: MJ2 is a musical group made up of twin sisters, their mother, and her twin. And, yes, there’s a Mollie and Jackie in each set. Confused yet?

Team captain, at least where diabetes is concerned, is 22-year-old Mollie Singer, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 4 and became a diabetes advocate practically overnight. By age 5, she and her twin, Jackie, who doesn’t have diabetes, had already raised $2,000 for diabetes research in one summer—on a lemonade stand. That’s small beans compared with what the twins have raised since then: about $750,000.

“The truth is, they felt a calling to do what they were doing, which was to be that active, that out in front of the disease, and to help however they could,” says Jackie Singer, the twins’ mother. As 6-year-olds, they were lobbying senators and Congress members. At 10, the girls founded Diabetic Angels, which has blossomed into an educational resource and community for people with the disease. And as if all of that weren’t enough, the girls, along with their mother and aunt, decided to take on Nashville.

After signing with a record label, the group joined its producer in a hunt for musicians willing to donate their time for charity. The result: “You Can’t Say Love Enough,” an MJ2 song featuring 18 stars, including Dolly Parton. With support from producer Dennis Money, who also has type 1 diabetes, MJ2 is donating the proceeds for diabetes research.

“I was just overwhelmed and humbled that all of these people could come together for one cause,” says Mollie Singer of their debut single. Next up: a television debut. The group’s turning on the camera for an as-yet-unnamed reality TV show. Though the show will focus on the family’s music, it also won’t hide Mollie’s diabetes. If anything, it will prove the importance of a support system Mollie relies on so heavily. “They’re just there for me,” she says, “even if I just need a hug.” —T.N.

Source: http://forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/features/teamwork-banding-together-tackle-diabetes 

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Crowning Glory

BY PAM MINICK

Dec 10, 2011 - 02:01 PM

The new Miss Rodeo America will be crowned today at the Hollywood Theatre at the MGM Grand. Reigning state rodeo queens have been competing all week in personality, appearance, and horsemanship to become rodeo’s next ambassador. At rehearsals, I caught a performance of “She’s More than Just a Crown,” by MJ2. Mollie and Jackie and Mollie and Jackie, the two sets of twins who make up the group, wrote their new song especially for Miss Rodeo America. Coronation is just ahead of us, so we’ll find out very soon who reigning Miss Rodeo America McKenzie Haley will get to crown.

SOURCE: http://www.cowboysindians.com/Blog/December-2011/Crowning-Glory/

We have a NEW SINGLE that just came out on iTunes, ”She’s More Than Just A Crown” and we put up a Video below that talks about the song!! We hope you enjoy it and we can’t wait for you to hear it! 

A world-class recording studio that caters to all artists…known and unknown!

A few weeks ago, we, the members of MJ2, had the pleasure of filming a special TV segment for HLN’s Morning Express with Robin Meade, called Breakthrough Women at Studio At The Palms, in the Palms Las Vegas…What a thrill!

George Maloof, of the Palms Las Vegas and Zoe Thrall, Director of Studio at the Palms, have surpassed all expectations by providing a world-class studio run by the most experienced recording industry veterans, who see to it that everyone is happy!

However, Studio at the Palms reputation as the ‘go to’ recording studio in the West is only surpassed by their love for Las Vegas and commitment to the community, which is how we met Zoe Thrall and had the privilege of recording and filming at Studio at the Palms.

We offer our deepest thanks to Zoe Thrall and her amazing staff, for their kindness, generosity and especially for helping to facilitate a wonderful day. Everyone involved in the shoot was thrilled with the professionalism shown the CNN camera crew and MJ2, but like all good things our special day came to an end, so we gathered up our equipment, gave and received some very special hugs and said hasta luego (MJ2 never say good bye)!

We left the Studio at the Palms, with our Daisy Rock Guitars slung across our backs, but we didn’t look back rather we focused on the future…a future that includes the next time we record at the legendary Studio at the Palms!

**In December of 2011 CNN may be featuring additional footage of MJ2 and the Diabetic Angels, so remember…every time you see MJ2 in the recording studio, the footage was shot at…STUDIO AT THE PALMS!