March 29, 2022
So proud of our dudes here at the #qbrothers team! And the ensemble and costume design and to get outstanding comedy! Thanks so much @stlshakesfest for everything!!! Amazing. And #qchristmas will be there this winter!
Q Brothers News
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@jeffreyqaiyum and @gqtheman won best directors for the St Louis Theatre Circle Awards
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Uniting Voices Chicago ❤️❤️❤️ one of our favorite pieces of anything. Ever.
March 27, 2022
They say practice makes perfect and that may be true but we focus on practice making permanent.In 2018 CCC’s singers ages 13-18 joined together across multiple days to perfect the production of Long Way Home, a fresh hip-hop production spin of Homer’s Odyssey. They polished their skills in choreography, acting and of course—singing.
These were long, intensive rehearsals but our singers never took these lessons for granted. These experiences and concrete skills are something that they can carry on for the rest of their lives.BTW: Some singers never acted in a stage production but you wouldn’t even be able to tell. These singers put
in the work. Here are just a few snapshots 
in time from behind the scenes and just really how much dedication CCC singers put into making a show a hit. #WorldTheatreDayA big thank you to Q Brothers for creating this beautiful piece with us. -
Big love to the backbone of the q brothers and our #1 ninja
March 23, 2022
Big love to the backbone of the q brothers and our #1 ninja, @jeffreyqaiyum as he competes in American Ninja Warrior! Here he is with one of our other favorite ninjas and quite possibly #oremix‘s number 1 all time fan @whitneybrooke1 and the amazing 70 year old ninja, Wayne from SLC. Good luck JQ. We love you! #rappingninja #americanninjawarrior #gogitsome #ninja
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Buggin 2nd Anniversary
March 19, 2022
2 years ago today the “Buggin” music video dropped! Such a fun song and album. Hoping to do the album songs live this Spring and Summer because we never really got a chance to perform it for folx
Hey Friends and Fam — We love you! Want to support some crazy artists through these crazy times? If we get 10K people to LIKE our Q Brothers FB page, we can start to monetize views on our upcoming videos for our kids album. please SHARE this video and tell your friends to LIKE Q Brothers on FB! This vid features all the incredible submissions for our album cover contest — from kids (and adults) all across the globe! Humbling and amazing. Keep your kids bumping the video and kill some homeschooling time!
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https://open.spotify.com/track/5jH5L9EAMx4yTncx5qac84?si=e56f6f1ff854434b And if you haven’t peeped the movie in a while, it’s most definitely worth a re-watch right about now.
In The Spirit of Nostalgia
March 8, 2022
Been getting hit with memories from when I was 10-12 years old…
I make electronic music as Javid Music Party. Javid is my middle name, given me by my grandmother on my father’s side. My dad was born in India and raised in Pakistan. As I was growing up, whenever we visited my relatives in Karachi, I was always fascinated as we rolled through the streets there. It was so different. So beautiful. So rich in spirit and so poor in “riches”. I have not been there in over 25 years, but the memories are strong. Whenever we’d visit, we’d cop the latest and hottest pirated cassette tapes, which were always associated with the popular films of the time, and we would bump that Bhangra, baby!
Over there, films and albums have always been pretty synonymous. It happens over here too, but not nearly to the same extent. But it did happen here in the U.S. in 1986 with the classic film Stand By Me. I will forever associate that movie with its incredible musical soundtrack. I cannot emphasize strongly enough the influence that music had on my life. The Golden Oldies 🙂 My parents were like, “You like this music? This is our music!”
I guess it’s kinda like how my nieces dig Led Zeppelin, or The Pixies even, or Tribe Called Quest. That’s our music! Hahaha. It’s beautiful how music works like that. I’m grateful to witness the cycles, the “return on investments” so to speak.Anyway, I recently couldn’t get the bassline for the title track of the 1986 movie out of my head, so I thought what the heck, lemme remix this thing with a cover of my own!
And speaking of covers, I am very aware of how un-cool the cover image is for this track, hahaha. I bring it up because it was an issue for me. As Javid Music Party, I am tempted to try to keep everything on the digital streaming platforms as cool as possible, image-wise. But the artwork I chose for this track is an ode to my 10 year old self, and to my brothers. And to my best childhood friend Danny Sullivan, who I played basketball with at the park in Chicago EVERY single day. And to the boombox we brought with us to bump the music as old as our parents. And to the kids who laughed at us for doing so. And to my Mom and Pops, who played so much of their music for us growing up. It’s also a shout out to the original poster for the film, and to the countless Bollywood music tapes we had with covers made in the early days of photoshop. I call the track Stand Bhai Me instead of Stand By Me because “bhai” means brother in Urdu. I hope you enjoy the track! https://open.spotify.com/track/5jH5L9EAMx4yTncx5qac84?si=e56f6f1ff854434b
And if you haven’t peeped the movie in a while, it’s most definitely worth a re-watch right about now.Love, g