Although he has well over a dozen film credits to his name, Nick Cannon has been behind-the-scenes for years, writing episodes of “All That” at only 17 and producing his own “The Nick Cannon Show” for Nickelodeon and later “Wild ‘N Out” for MTV. He’s also Chairman of Teen Nick and he gave himself the duty of writing and directing his first music-filled feature for the network, “School Gyrls,” a high-school set comedy featuring a girl group he has signed to his own NCredible Entertainment label.
“I had been a part of a bunch of different talent searches for young people in the past and I’d seen thousands of really talented kids,” Cannon said. “So I was like ‘Maybe if I grabbed three of those girls that I had auditioned for other projects and put them together and create this group, it could be something really special. We haven’t seen something like that in the music industry in a while.”
The result is School Gyrls, a pop/dance trio made up of 15-year old Mandy Rain, 15-year-old Jacquelyn Rae Pyles aka Jacque Nimble, and 16-year-old Monica Parales aka Mo Money. “These three uber-talented young ladies sing, dance, rap, act, just do it all,” Cannon said.
“Every time we would record a song, I would keep coming up with a video concept or something funny that the girls could do,” he continued. “So then I was like I’m just going to start putting these ideas together and I started formulating a script. By the time the album was finished, I had a script for a movie and every song on the album kind-of has a music video to go with it within the movie.”
“This isn’t ‘High School Musical!’” says one character in “School Gyrls,” which includes guest appearances by music stars like Justin Bieber, Angie Stone, Pete (more…)
. So how was the “School Gyrls” premiere on Monday?
