MIGUEL TALKS JB TO BRAZILIAN WEBSITE

Abril.com: How is it to travel with the Jonas Brothers?

Miguel Gandelman: They’re very young. Around them it’s always business, their father is their manager, but the boys are still young. They feel the need to be with young people. They’re always there with us, playing ping pong, playing baseball. And they’re always together.

Have you ever worked with a phenomenon like them?

I had never worked with an artist that was a teenage phenomenon. I played with Diana Ross, Sting, Michael Jackson, people that weren’t this phenomenon where the person is bigger than the music and the kids are screaming and go after you.

Is it always like that?

It’s a lot of screaming, and the funniest part is that it’s unbelievable. I was on stage and there girls trying to grab me, this girl came and untied my shoelaces. The other day one girl got my glasses. It’s something unbelievable, a loud mess. We went to Brazil and played for 60.000 people. For me, as a Brazilian, it was unbelievable, everybody sang all the songs.

And how are they as musicians? Is Nick really the most talented?

They’re all very talented. The oldest one [Kevin] plays the guitar, the middle one [Joe] is a very good singer and Nick is the maestro of the situation. They’re very professional. Nick, I could say, is their musical director, but they’re all very talented. Their father is a musician too, he was a pastor, singer and pianist.

How long are still going to play with the Jonas Brothers?

We’ll stop in September, because they’ll make a movie. We already have a proposition from Quincy Jones, who’s completing 50 years of career. We tour again with the Jonas Brothers in November, and we’ll go to Europe until the end of December. In 2010 we’ll be with them again. And we just received a proposition from Rod Stewart to record an album with him.

Now this article was originally in Portuguese so I used the a translator to have it in english. If there’s mistakes I’ll try to correct them.

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