Janice Roberts has lived and breathed music for her entire lifetime. At the tender age of ten, Janice Roberts was already an accomplished musician and entertainer, performing on classic accordion, trained at the prestigious Schiff School of Music. After garnering several awards, she attended New York City's High School of Performing Arts. It was there that she learned her calling was not in front of the footlights, but rather, that she longed to develop and promote the talents of others.
As an owner/teacher of The School of Music Artists on Long Island, she taught piano and organ technique and performance to burgeoning musicians, while concurrently honing her own skills as a composer. In 1991 she composed the music to an environmental children's musical, "Kids Saving Planet Earth" which was published and performed throughout Japan by the Yamaha Music Foundation.
She is also proud of her musical compositions that were used by the Ryan White Foundation and for original material she provided for the E.V.E. (Environmental Visionary Efforts) for Alabama Power and Lighting Company.
Bruce co-produced and wrote the book/lyrics for an environmental children's musical called Kids Saving Planet Earth (Earth's Troubadours) which was soon sub-published, translated and performed throughout Japan by The Yamaha Music Foundation. Several adaptations were created to accommodate the expanding catalogue of songs and the different venues where Earth's Troubadours performed. Having found a niche in family/children's entertainment, Bruce spent several seasons writing live shows for Hershey Park in Pennsylvania, co-created radio show Vaudeville Kids, and co-wrote baseball song for cable TV sport show Dyna-Mets.
During the Clinton Administration, his talents were recruited to provide the lyrics for an anti-drug campaign song You Have the Power (Stay Drug Free). The World's Greatest Pest was created as a dream project to launch Earth's Troubadours in a big way and is the project closest to his heart.
Having seen it produced clearly in his head, he feels it's time for everyone else to see it.
Janice Roberts and Bruce Mandel were playpen pals growing up next door to each other in Brooklyn, who will forever share the joy of music together and are proud to be ASCAP members.
