I take great proud in finding artists who create great art, but are very underappreciated. Many times their work is better than the most popular stuff that everyone has heard of. I have found many, but perhaps the group that inspires me the most is a group called The Piano Guys. These five guys went from being a group of guys in St. George, Utah, to one of the most popular groups on youtube. They began when Jon Schmidt (Piano Guy) met Paul Anderson ("The" Guy), who owned a piano shop. They made a few basic videos, and then Jon introduced Paul to Steve Sharp Nelson (Cello Guy). The group was rounded out by Tel Stewart (Video Guy) and Al Van Der Beek (Music Guy). This group takes popular songs from today and combines them with classical tunes of old (Jon and Steven are classically trained in their respective instruments), to create something that is quite unique (and sometimes better than its parts, if you ask me), as well as usually being very well filmed. They began posting there works a few years ago, and they have grown in popularity to the point that their new music videos average well over a million views per video, and there total number of views across all their videos recently reached 130 million. For a group of five guys with a passion for their work, this is impressive. To me it is also a great pleasure to see a success story from a little town in Utah, become one of the most popular groups on the internet, and reminds me that Hollywood and Nashville do not own a monopoly on the world of the arts. I have included some of their mot popular videos for your viewing pleasure.
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