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Luke and Steppen, better known as 2CELLOS, took the world by storm in 2011
with their cover of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal.
They have since sold out tours around the world and amassed more than 500 million views on YouTube.
You can see them tonight at Wolf Trap, but first we are lucky enough to have them here in studio [N] with us this morning before the big show.
Good morning to you both.
What a great announcement.
You like that?
Okay, well, they're all your details.
I mean, you guys just blew up the web with Smooth [Gb] Criminal.
I want to read a quote here from one of your biggest fans.
He says, I can't remember seeing anything as exciting as them since I saw Jimi Hendrix live back in the 60s.
That was just Elton John saying that.
[N] That's got to be amazing to have someone like Elton John be such a huge fan.
He's talking about us?
He's talking about you both, yes.
And he's right. _
So this is really cool.
You guys, you know, take a lot of pop cultures, most popular songs, songs from movie soundtracks, popular songs, you know, from decades past, like Michael Jackson's Thriller, and play it on the cello.
We love all kinds of music.
We don't like to divide music in different genres.
We just play what we love and audience loves it and everyone loves it.
It's a big celebration of music.
And you guys have really put, you know, classical music kind of, you've made it cool again, I guess.
Do you feel that?
Yeah, I mean, among young people especially.
Yeah.
When they hear us play, they want to pick up an instrument and it's a great thing, you know.
More young people will learn to music, the better this world will be.
Right.
So you're traveling all over.
You said you've been to D.C. multiple times.
This is your first time playing at Wolf Trap?
Yeah.
What are you like when you come to D.C.?
What is it about, like, the fans here?
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What is it?
_ It's great.
Every year it's bigger, you know, bigger venue.
And just keeps growing.
It's amazing.
Right.
Thank you all.
Yes, thank you all.
So your latest album, [N] Score, takes a lot of the most popular songs from soundtracks.
How do you decide which ones you want to cover?
You've got Titanic, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones.
How do you decide which ones to include and which ones to leave out?
The most beautiful ones.
It's obvious.
We choose the most beautiful melodies to play on the cello.
Right.
Because cello is perfect for playing beautiful melodies.
All right.
So this morning you're going to give us a little demonstration.
You're going to be performing for us one of the hottest songs out there right now, Despacito.
All right?
Yes.
[A] All right.
Take it away.
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Amazing.
Two cellos performing tonight at Wolf Trap at 8 p.m.
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