School Gyrls is a 2010 made-for-TV musical film starring the pop band School Gyrls (Mandy Moseley, Monica Anne Parales, Jacque Pyles) and Lindsay Taylor. The film premiered on Nickelodeon on February 21, 2010, and later aired on TeenNick on March 19, 2010. The film was poorly received by critics and was the only promotion for the album of the same name by the stars of the film. The film was written, produced and directed by Nick Cannon, marking his film directorial debut.

School Gyrls is an American girl group. Signed to Nick Cannon's NCredible Entertainment, the group starred in an eponymous movie that premiered on Nickelodeon on February 21, 2010. The group formed in 2008, and their self-titled studio album was released on March 23, 2010, charting at #118 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and was preceded by the single "Something Like a Party" and "Get Like Me".

Nick Cannon was first introduced to Mandy Rain (real name Amanda Moseley, the daughter of actor-comedian Mark Moseley) on the set his reality show Star Camp, where she was the youngest member of the Star Camp group, "The Giggle Club". After Star Camp wrapped, Cannon considered a solo career for Mandy, but decided instead to use her as the nucleus of a girl group; he also formulated a movie concept about three private school girls who meet in detention.

Cannon brought in Monica Anne Parales, who had auditioned for "The Giggle Club", but she wound up working on the "Jam-X Kids" project instead. Jasmine Villegas was the original third member of the group, but she left early on to pursue a solo career. After Jasmine's departure, Jacquelyn Rae Pyles was chosen and added to the group.

Justin Drew Bieber ( /ˈbiːbər/ BEE-bər, born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian Pop/R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager. Braun arranged for him to meet with Usher in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher, and then to a recording contract with Island Records offered by L.A. Reid. Bieber's debut single, "One Time", was released in 2009 and peaked in the top twenty in Canada and charted in the top thirty in several international markets. His debut album, the seven-track EP My World, followed in November 2009, and was soon certified platinum in the United States. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

Mathias Cole Anderle (born July 3, 1993) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Puyallup, Washington, United States. Anderle's stylistic influences include reggae, pop, rock, folk, jazz, and hip hop.

Anderle played the male lead in the Nickelodeon Film School Gyrls, which was written and directed by Nick Cannon and released his first single "Shine On" which is a featured track on Kidz Bop 17.

Anderle was born in Puyallup, Washington. By the age of 5, he was singing and performing at local church productions. He taught himself how to play the guitar at the age of 10 and began playing the local coffee house circuit while he was still in Jr. High School. Mathias co-writes most of his own songs and his influences are varied. He attended public school at Hunt Elementary, Ferrucci Jr. High, Glacier View Jr. High and would have gone to Emerald Ridge High but he relocated to Los Angeles to pursue his acting, singing and modeling career.

In 2010, Anderle released his first single "Shine On" under the record label Razor & Tie which is featured on the Kidz Bop 17 album. The single peaked at #14 on iTunes. He then released another single late summer 2010 entitled "Summertime" which peaked at #13 on iTunes. On March 11, 2011 he released a free single off his upcoming mixtape call "Gone".