Chris Ramos and Sonny B are Hawaiian musicians known for preferring to use the ukulele in their attempt at music superstardom. Over the past few months, CRSB launched an EP featuring their singles “You and I†as well as “Give it Up,†giving their dedicated fans and new ones alike a taste of what they want to accomplish in 2014.
In this interview, Ramos and B. discuss their style and goals for the future as well as how much they appreciate input from their fans.
Review Fix: In the song “Touch the Sky†there is no ukulele- what made you choose to switch the style up?
Sonny: There is no specific bass when it comes to music and that is what we wanted to express to our people. We make music for whatever we see or whatever we like, whether it is with the ukulele or not we manage to put our personalities in our music. That song definitely gave us a chance to stand outside of our own element.
Review Fix: A lot of your videos start of telling a story, why is that?
Chris: I think it starts off a lot of our personality; it gives us a chance to show people who we really are outside of the music. When we create a song, it already has a story so we elaborate on that. We come up with mini movies for our videos that people can relate to. We really look up to people that inspire us like Michael Jackson. He took music videos to a different level where it was experience and that’s what we wanted to provide; an experience for our fans.
Review Fix: Do you have any fan comments of how your music affected their lives in a positive way? Whether it is the message in a certain song?
Sonny: Well, yeah definitely there are tons. With our ‘The break up song’, I mean everyone broke up to our song. Recently we were told that a couple babies were made to our songs, we’ve sang at weddings so people were married to some of our music. It’s very reassuring and it just brings a sense of candescent where we can live by those joyous moments.
Review Fix: In the song “You and I,†you express the feeling of wanting to give all your love to this special girl; are the lyrics based on a special someone you care most about?
Sonny: It is our combination of every girl that we’ve ever dealt with in our lives. Women, all those good females deserve the world. We want them to feel special and let it be known that there are good men out there that care for them.
Chris: We love what we do and to put a smile on someone’s face is a great feeling.
Review Fix: The music industry can be a bit stressful, how do you cope with the amount of attention received?
Sonny: We don’t stress at all, so there is no coping. I think that the key to not stressing is to not stress at all. We love what we do, no one has to force us to be anywhere, no one like per say. We have the freedom to do what we want and to make the music that we want. If it ever gets to the point where it gets stressful we simply keep up with ourselves.
Chris: We are creating music that provides us with our own lane. Not to say that we don’t have any completion because that’s pretty egotistical but in our genre of music, as far as how we are creating it and how we are coming out I think it’s very unique.
Review Fix: How do you guys put your music together? Is it lyrics first then melody or melody first lyrics later?
Sonny: Both ways, sometimes it just happens the way it happens. Sometimes we have just the beat, or just the words. Either way we both know it is going to turn into a song. It’s an exalting kind of feeling like they say ‘it’s just magic that happens.’
Review Fix: Which artist in the music industry right now would you guys like to collaborate with?
Sonny: Right now, an artist that I would like to work with? Man, that’s tough. You know, there is not one particular person that I can think of. We have really good artists right now like French, Drake, and Justin Timberlake there is a bunch of them. We would like to make a song with Justin Timberlake with him singing and us playing the ukulele in the back, I think that would be dope, if we ever get the opportunity.
Chris: I like Trinidad James, there is nothing like Trinidad James. That would definitely be a lot of fun, but I don’t know if he would sound good on a ukulele. So we will just never know what sounds good until you try it. We are going to make a song with Trinidad one day. All gold everything on the Uke.
Review Fix: Does your culture or the way you were raised have anything to do with the theme of your music?
Chris: It has everything to do with our music. Who we are is in the definition of our music. Our culture is definitely in our music. Just that alone is a combination of fixing the gaps between pop music and island music. That’s who we are; we are island boys ready to hit the main land.
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