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Twinnies (duo)
Twinnies was a musical duo from Bavaria consisting of Astrid Paster and Franziska Pauli. They were noted for singing and playing their accordions while rollerblading.[1][3][4] BiographyAstrid Paster and Franziska Pauli lived in the small Bavarian village of Neufang, which had only 40 inhabitants.[1] They played guitar and steirische harmonikas since childhood.[5] They said that they were such good friends that they could be considered twins.[1] The duo demonstrated the unique talent of performing while rollerblading.[1][3] They explained: "The idea came about by accident. We used to perform music in the evenings at Astrid's father's health resort hotel, and [once] while we were out on rollerskates in the middle of the day, the guests asked us to take our accordions out".[1] It was at that hotel that they were discovered by DJ Ötzi's producer Christian Seitz. As he said, "[t]he girls were so brilliant that I signed them the same evening".[5] On March 6, 2009, the Twinnies (then aged 12 and 13) released their debut album Wir rocken auf Rollen ("We Rock on Rolls") on Sony BMG.[6][5] The album contained songs written for them by DJ Ötzi's producers Seitz and Martin Neumeyer. Franciska explained: "We told the two which topics we would like to sing about. That included our passion for long talks, as well as fashion and karaoke parties".[1] On March 7, 2009,[7] they debuted on television, on the ARD folk music program Musikantenstadl.[5] Their performance (with accordions on rollerblades)[5][4] brought them instant fame.[1] A video of the duo on that day's show (they sang a song "Bayernmädels" from their debut album) is now popular on YouTube, having attracted over 14 million views by the end of 2017.[8] MembersThe members of the group were:[9]
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