The Bella Cullen Project

Of the growing number of Twirock fanbands in the Twilight Universe, The Bella Cullen Project, a teen trio from Arlington, Texas, was the first to upload their original songs on Myspace (6/8/2007) and the first to perform their Twilight inspired compositions before a live audience. The members of the band - Chandler Nash, Ally Kiger, and Tori Randall had just completed their 8th grade year when they came up with the idea to form a Twilight fan-band, and have been playing Twilight-based music ever since. Their first performance opportunity arose with the midnight release party of the third book in the Twilight saga, Eclipse, on August 6th, 2007 at an independent bookstore at a mall in Cleburne, Texas. With varying tastes in musical genres and styles, the three have collaborated together to compose over 20 original songs. They released their debut CD in July 2008, which was recorded in the home studio of their friend, Brent Moore of Freshly Squozen Sounds. The band has since been featured in various media sources, such as MTV’s TRL, ABC’s Nightline, local ABC affiliate WFAA-TV’s “Young Street” as well as magazines including Cosmogirl, Esquire, Salon and various news publications. In May of 2008, the band had the pleasure of meeting author Stephenie Meyer and performed their hit “Sexy Vampire” for her acapella. Recently, the girls were invited to meet Robert Pattison during his stop in Dallas on the Hot Topic Tour and were invited to perform at Summit’s local advance press screening of Twilight. Currently the band, now high school sophomores, are working on new songs which demonstrate their maturity as individuals and their growth as musicians and hope to record and release another album in 2009.