I've said it before...I love finding the extraordinary in unlikely places.
2Cellos are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser.
They were both born in Yugoslavia and met in a Croatian master cello class.
They attended music class together in Croatia and Vienna, then traveled to the UK, where Sulic went to London's Royal Academy of Music and Hauser attended the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Although they were very successful in the UK, they created this particular video because of financial difficulties.
It worked.
The video became a hit, with over 3 million views within the first 2 weeks, and over 11 million total views.
Sir Elton John was one of those viewers.
He called Sulic up and asked them to open for him on his current 30 city tour.
Although the debut record contains covers of mainly rock songs, Šulić and Hauser say they still play with orchestras and will not abandon playing classical music.
The cellists say they would someday like to go on tour with both a classical and a contemporary orchestra.
If you like this one, check out their version of GNR's "Welcome to the Jungle".
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