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Hoop Suite is a variety show comprised of modern dance, rap, spoken word poetry, and music. The project explores the difficulties that teenagers and young people face through these various art forms. Sometimes youth are not really heard. The studio members’ goal was to get themselves heard. Jess, Noel, and Emily were in the music group during the Hoop Suite studio. The music followed a similar theme of being listened to without judgment and freedom of choice. The main coach of the music group was Johnny. They began by spending time warming up their voices and practicing harmonies together. The rap group figured out the background music they wanted to use and the music crew wrote first the melody and then the lyrics of a catchy hook. They also wrote a melody and lyrics to a more haunting and sad tune about finding yourself in the confusion of teenagerdom. In addition, they changed the words to and sang a new version of Kid Cudi’s song “The Prayer.” Which Emily and Ben accompanied on the ukulele. The final combined product was performed at the Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorcester, and at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill. Emily, Noel, and Jess learned a lot about making music together and the passion for music that is inside all of them.