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Willet
12+ albums
alternative rockchristianchristian rockrockalternative
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WILLET is a Rock Band out of Westminster, MD made up of brothers, Jeremy, Justin, and Jordan Willet. Willet tours nationally full time, performing over 250 dates per year. Jeremy, Justin and Jordan grew up in a Christian home taking piano lessons from their father, which resulted in expanding to other instruments such as bass, drums and guitar. Being that the Willet brothers have always shared a close relationship both musically, and relationally, they pursued a vision to help kids all over the world. In February of 2007, WILLET traveled to Ethiopia, Africa with a film crew. The images of hungry children, dirty streets, and poverty will never be forgotten. While on this 10-day journey, many of the kids that the band came in contact with attempted to communicate through broken English. The phrase repeated throughout the trip was; "I have the virus,” or "I don't have the virus, praise God!" The "VIRUS" they are speaking of is the HIV/AIDS VIRUS that is sweeping through Africa, killing thousands of children each day. In April of 2008, the band released a full-length “concept album” for Africa called, “VIRUS”, which included 10 songs, a documentary, photos from Africa and an E-book of “writings” explaining the lyrics. The songs were written over a span of two years in hotel rooms, tour buses, coffee shops, airports, tour vans, and on the dirty streets in Africa. The songs were written to challenge the listener, the
