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The love for music twice as much

By FRANCINE BLACK, Staff Reporter

( L - R )Kemard Williams and Howard Williams - contributed photos

KEMARD AND HOWARD Williams are a pair of twins with a strong musical interest.

The pair, born on January 12, 1987, love to dance and play the drums. According to their mother Yvette Williams, the boys have taken to beating anything they get their hands on like benches at church, kerosene pans and even water jugs.

The boys, who live with Williams in Round Hill, Southfield, St. Elizabeth, say they want to be drummers in the future.

Mrs. Williams said she found out she was having twins when she went to the hospital to give birth. She said she was told she would have twins when the nurse said she felt two heartbeats instead of one.

She said after their birth, it was a lot of work caring for the boys but her 10 sisters assisted her round the clock. She said both boys were also troubled with epilepsy and they would often have seizures a day apart. However, she says the boys are no longer affected by the condition.

Although Kemard, who is known as Andrew and Howard, who is known as André, are relatively good boys, they admit that they sometimes try to trick people who cannot tell them apart. "Sometime when mi go school and wi want give teacher some trouble, like mi wi do something and tell the teacher seh is not me and him will seh is not him till the teacher can't bother fi find out a who," Howard said.

Mrs. Williams said the boys are close and often defend each other. "If mi do one anything, him go tell the other one," she said.

She adds that they sometimes have their differences but they are quickly reconciled.

Howard is the more talkative of the pair and loves to eat fruits, while Kemard loves to eat chicken and pork and loves to listen to different types of music. The boys, who attend Newell High School in the parish, are also members on their school's football and cricket teams.

They have never once separated since birth and admit that sometimes they wish they were an only child. They are not the only twins in their extended family as they have twin cousins as well. Howard says he sometimes does not enjoy being confused with his brother and for this reason he hopes they will separate in the future.