Justin Tinucci

Justin Tinucci (born January 14th, 1999) is an American actor and musician. He first made his acting debut as a co star on iCarly when he was 9 years old. Prior to becoming an actor and musician, Justin lived with his family in Littleton, Colorado where he and his older sister Kayla Tinucci became known for being the first kids to compete in the sport of indoor skydiving. There was a great deal of national media surrounding the indoor skydiving duo known as Team Future. This media led to opportunities to appear on various shows including iCarly and the Ellen Degeneres show. Following this, Justin became very interested in acting, and then in music. In June of 2009, Justin and his mom, Jennifer Tinucci, spent the summer in Los Angeles where Justin landed several roles in commercials and film. His first role in 2008 was on iCarly as part of a special skills episode called the iCarly awards- in this episode Justin and his sister were featured and presented an award for their wind tunnel tricks and stunts. This was followed by a television commercial for the BET Awards in 2009, and then a short film, Stanley. This initial success led to the family permanently relocating to Los Angeles.
Justin spent the next several years working on projects in film and television. His film credits include roles in movies such as The Muppets Movie and Standing Up, and his television credits include iCarly, Big Love, Incredible Crew and Trophy Wife. In early 2014, Justin appeared as the guitar player in a brand new ad campaign for MILK.
In 2010, at the age of 11, Justin also discovered his love for music. After informing his mom that he wanted to start to play guitar, he started off by taking guitar lessons for about a year and a half. Once he had the basics down, he worked with a music school that helped bring young musicians together to form bands. After working with several groups and meeting people who were interested in becoming more serious about music, Justin formed his first band, called Unfocused with his friend Lauren Owens. The band members from Unfocused eventually went their separate ways, but Justin continued on with guitar and eventually found the perfect fit at the age of 14 when with his friends Robby Bruce and Austin Anderson. They formed a new band in July 2013 called Breaking Tempo. Justin and Robby started the band out of Justin's garage and wrote their first song, Breakdown. About a week after they wrote Breakdown, Austin Anderson joined them. The band took off quickly and played at popular venues in Los Angeles, including the Troubadour, House of Blues Anaheim, Beyond the Stars Palace and many more. In July 2014 Austin Herzig joined the band as their drummer and Austin Anderson moved from drums to bass. Breaking Tempo's first album "Beginning To End" was released on August 26th 2014. Immediately after the release of the album, Breaking Tempo launched a 60 high school tour in California, Nevada, and Arizona, promoting the album. In September 2014, the band won the Grand Prize in the Silver Jeans Company National Battle of the Bands Competition. As part of the prize package they would travel to New York City in November 2014 to record a demo with Fader Magazine.

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