Biography
"Unfailingly entertaining songs and hysterical, gravity-defying dance antics" - Sunday Mail.
Fabio, Mario and Demilition B-Girl (aka Demi Sorono - So You Think You Can Dance Australia Top 4, 2008) are the 'Superheroes of Kid-Hop'. This award-winning act sold out 6 shows at the Sydney Opera House last year and have performed at some of Australia’s biggest events - including Adelaide Fringe, Darwin Festival, Fun 4 Kids Festival, Melbourne and Adelaide New Year's Eve, The Famous Spiegeltent and even the Big Day Out!
S O W H A T I S K I D - H O P ?
"... a frenetic mixture of rapping, singing, dancing, DJ scratching and aerobics, all accompanied by Casio keyboards... The band's messages are overwhelmingly positive, from eating healthily to turning off the television to play outside" - dB Magazine, Fringe Review (March 07)
"At last children's theatre that is new and innovative! These guys certainly know how to entertain the kids and the adults too. The Casio Brothers & Demilition B-Girl communicate street wise messages to the kids through funky hip-hop tunes, creative break-dancing moves and oodles of Swedish humour!" - Carina Cargill, Events Coordinator, Moomba Waterfest.
L A T E S T N E W S
The Casio Brothers & Demilition B-Girl are set to headline the school holiday program at Gasworks Arts Park Sept 28 & 29 with their fitness-lovin' show FAT BEATS 4 FIT KIDZ (For tickets visit www.gasworks.org.au).
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In March this year The Casio Brothers & Demilition B-Girl headlined the kids’ events at the world’s second largest arts festival, the Adelaide Fringe. On the evening before the Adelaide Fringe’s popular ‘Family Weekend’, Channel 10 aired a story on the Kid-Hop trio, who also featured in a page 2 article in the city’s main paper, The Advertiser.
D E M I S O R O N O J O I N S T H E C A S I O B R O T H E R S
After making the Top 4 on So You Think You Can Dance Australia, and thereafter touring entertainment centres nationally with the show’s Top 10, Australia’s favourite B-Girl joined The Casio Brothers as Demilition B-Girl in October 2008.
S Y D N E Y O P E R A H O U S E S E L L O U T
After six sold out shows at the Sydney Opera House last year, The Casio Brothers were invited back for four shows at the Gorgeous Festival where the Famous Spiegeltent graced the Sydney Opera House Forecourt for the first time ever. Their shows attracted many special guests from TV land and various kids’ music associations.
T H E U N F O R G E T T A B L E 'M U S T - S E E' S U P E R S T A R S
Australian Idol crowned them "Unforgettable" in 2004, "Superstars" in 2005 and in 2006 the Sunday Mail ranked them #2 as a 'Must-See' in kids' entertainment.
B I G D A Y O U T
The Casio Brothers have performed at 3 consecutive Big Day Outs... 2006 & 2007 in Adelaide 2007 in Melbourne.
W I N N E R O F "B E S T D A N C E A C T " A W A R D
The Casio Brothers took out 'Best Dance Act' at the South Australian Music Awards 2006 and were nominated for “Best Electronica Act”. In the same year dB Magazine readers nominated them for “Best Dance Act” which was won by the Hilltop Hoods.
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The Casio Brothers chose the world's 2nd largest arts festival to debut their fitness focussed 'Swedish Superheroes of Kid-Hop' show at Adelaide's flagship arts venue, the Adelaide Festival Centre, and the reviewers were raving. The Advertiser had this to say...
" 4 STARS... This high-energy interactive act gets toddlers to young teens grooving to the beat. The culprit is Kid-Hop, a child friendly version of Hip-Hop... They have a handle on comedy, contagious break dancing moves and some very cute electro-toy instruments. Their material is funny and kid-wise and every parents dream - things like too much TV and junk food are declared definitely uncool." - The Advertiser, Fringe Review (March 07).
H E A D L I N I N G K I D S A C T
The Casio Brothers were the face of the Adelaide Fringe's 'GALA 4 KIDS' 07 and the event's headline act, consisting of 4 sell out shows at the Royalty Theatre. During the course of the Fringe, the trio were interviewed on Channel 10, Mix FM and ABC Radio.
"These guys must be seen to be believed!... high energy and equal hilarity" - www.InTheMix.com.au
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In 2006, The Casio Brothers were the 'Face of the Adelaide Fringe' itself when they represented the world's second largest arts festival in Virgin Blue and Qantas magazine ads. They also appeared on the cover of 'Eventful Adelaide' magazine, which saw 1.5 million copies distributed in major newspapers throughout Australia and NZ in the lead up to the Fringe. The Casios not only shared the front cover with key SA sporting heroes, Fabio was 'da man' on the double page Fringe spread inside and is sometimes referred to as Fabio 'Fringe Face' Casio.
H E R M A J E S T Y ' S T H E A T R E 2 0 0 6
After three years as an adult act The Casio Brothers decided to create a kids show. They tested the show at Her Majesty's Theatre selling a total of 900 tickets!
C A R E E R H I G H L I G H T S
Sydney Opera House 2008 - 6 SOLD OUT shows!
Famous Spiegeltent, Sydney Opera House Forecourt 2008
Famous Spiegeltent, Melbourne Arts Centre Forecourt 2008 – SOLD OUT
Adelaide Festival Centre 2008 - 2 SOLD OUT shows
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Family Weekend - Headlining Kids’ Act
Adelaide New Year’s Eve 08/09 – 30,000 people
Darwin Festival 2008 - Headlining Kids’ Act
Melbourne Fringe 2007 - 6 SOLD OUT shows
Moomba Waterfest, Melbourne 2008
Adelaide Fringe Festival ‘Gala4Kids’ 2007 - Headline Act
Australia's Got Talent Semi Finalists 2007 (Channel 7)
New Year's Eve - Melbourne 2007
Fun 4 Kids Festival - 2007 & 2009 (Awarded "Australia's Best Kids Festival")
Big Day Out - Melbourne 2007
Big Day Out - Adelaide 2005 & 2006
"Face of the Fringe" - Adelaide Fringe Festival 2006
Her Majesty's Theatre - Adelaide 2006 (900 tickets sold)
"Best Dance Act" - SA Music Awards 2006
"Best Electronica Act" Nominee - SA Music Awards 2006
“Best Dance Act” Nominee 2006 - dB Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards
Australian Idol "Superstars" 2005
Australian Idol "Unforgettables" 2004
W E B S I T E
www.casiobrothers.com
M Y S P A C E
(This is for their teen/adult show. Say what?)
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E L E C T R O N I C P R E S S K I T
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Discography
NEW CD AVAILABLE AT SHOWS
S P E C I A L T H A N K S
to Billy Hyde Music Adelaide for their support and belief in what we do (www.billyhydemusic.com.au)
Special thanks to Klub Retro for our hot Casio Brothers shirts (www.klubretro.com)
Website design by Brad at Bradelaide Multimedia (www.bradelaide.com)
Our stylin' pix are by Hege Heraldsen.
Endless thanks to Barry, Frazer and Greg for filming our shows.
Links
http://www.casiobrothers.com
Instrumentation
FABIO CASIO: Swedish Rap Superhero, electronic kids' toys collector, master of rhyme, breakdancer.
MARIO CASIO: Brother MC, beat blaster master & lover of pasta, swift handed man of tha turntables.
DEMILITION B-GIRL: Hot steppin' dancer settin' rooms alight, is tha Lady MC who completes the three in tha place to be! Top 4 of So You Think You Can Dance Australia 2008.
Discography
NEW CD AVAILABLE AT SHOWS
S P E C I A L T H A N K S
to Billy Hyde Music Adelaide for their support and belief in what we do (www.billyhydemusic.com.au)
Special thanks to Klub Retro for our hot Casio Brothers shirts (www.klubretro.com)
Our stylin' pix are by Hege Heraldsen.
Illustration by Foz at www.visualante.com.au
Endless thanks to Barry and Frazer for filming our shows.
Links
| http://www.casiobrothers.com |