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Megan and Liz performing at VidCon 2012 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
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Background information | |
Origin | Edwardsburg, Michigan, United States |
Genres | Pop, country |
Years active | 2007 | –present
Labels | Collective Sounds (2011-2014) |
Associated acts | Alexz Johnson, Boyce Avenue, Plain White T's, Shenae Grimes, Cimorelli, Tiffany Alvord |
Website | www |
Members | Megan McKinley Mace Elizabeth Morgan Mace |
Megan and Liz (commonly stylized as Megan & Liz) are an American country/pop girl duo composed of fraternal twin sisters, Megan and Liz Mace, from Edwardsburg, Michigan. They are both songwriters, and Megan is their guitarist. As of August 8, 2016, they have 1,051,944 subscribers and over 238 million video views on their YouTube channel.
Megan McKinley Mace and Elizabeth Morgan Mace were born on November 21, 1992, in South Bend, Indiana to parents Randall Mace and Mary Miars. They grew up in Edwardsburg, Michigan. Megan is the older sister by one minute. Their parents divorced when the twins were three and they lived with their mother.
Their first video on YouTube, entitled "This Note", is a song which they wrote at the age of 15. Their first cover was of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", originally written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson and performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, but better known from Diana Ross's cover in 1970. They have posted 28 original songs on YouTube (as of June 2012). While living in Michigan, the girls posted a new cover or original song every week or two.
In February 2011, Megan and Liz went on tour with Boyce Avenue and Tiffany Alvord. They performed nine shows across the United States.
The duo released their first official music video on May 20, 2011, of their self-written song "Happy Never After." Since then they have posted 28 original and 13 official videos. Two days later, on May 22, 2011, Megan and Liz performed at the Totally Tube concert in Westbury, New York, alongside fellow YouTubers Kurt Schneider, Tiffany Alvord, Joseph Vincent, Kait Weston, and Jenna Rose.
Since moving to Nashville, Tennessee, the duo has been added to Nashville Hootenanny's 'Teen Hoot' roster, where local artists perform for a crowd of teens at Westwood Studios. Megan and Liz have appeared on June 26, 2011, and August 20, 2011, performances and play both covers and original songs for further shows. In the August 20 show, they performed a duet with "Need Your Poison" co-writers Memphis High.