The Movement

There is a signature force and power to the music that THE MOVEMENT has been making this year, and as people are discovering those qualities, their reputation as artists, songwriters, and producers has only grown. Their work represents the best of what MULTI-ETHNIC UNITY MUSIC can be. Its Funk Soul, Rap & RnB - driven, uplifting, blue collar and true to itself and its audience. Perhaps most of all it’s distinctly honest, a plainspoken testament to the dignity, hopes and aspirations of ordinary music loving people. In a time as obsessed with glamour, celebrity, fame and materialism as ours, their songs remain an embracing tonic, an emblem of the belief that everyone’s life is worthy of importance in music. There songs explore the personal pain of people tring to survive on what they belive in, what they love, the struggle behind it and the struggle within, the possibilities of death, and the necessity to move on, while the common frustration of getting to a place in life where you think, "How did this happen, is this where I want to be, how lives change. How in life there has to be a change, a bond between life and living...a journey between dying and dead..A MOVEMENT of a people in between the lost and the losing...

The band was originally formed in Rancho Cucamonga, California under the name "IBIS". Which combined songwriters Ceasar Ramerez and Luis Smith as one dynamic duo. After months of preperations, the two acquired singer/songwriter "KeLvIn" to complete the production phase of the group. And later on linked with drummer Tim Woo and Terry Stirling Jr. After a year hiatus from recording and shows , bandmates Ceasar and Luis from the original band "IBIS" came back togather and really strived on the thought of FAILURE! Their success from songwriting led to the acquiring of producer and live musician Danny Mills and Drummer Shantik Wilcot. In 2008 they also connected with drummer and producer Harry Campbell and bussiness parter Deshawn Washington. And thus far THE MOVEMENT of living was formed! ..