Alexander Jean | |
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Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Genres | Rock |
Years active | 2015–present |
Members | Mark Ballas BC Jean |
Website | www |
Alexander Jean is an American music duo made up of singers Mark Ballas and BC Jean. The name for the duo is a combination of their two middle names. Ballas and Jean first met in 2012. Ballas was performing in a band while Jean was performing her own material. They became an official music duo in 2015. They also married each other in November 2016. [1] [2]
Their debut single was "Roses and Violets". It reached the top 20 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. Alexander Jean were picked in November 2018 as Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month. The duo was featured on NBC's Today show, hosted by Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, broadcast nationally in the United States where they performed a live version of their single "Waiting for You".
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At 23, San Diego native BC Jean...