We really want to connect people to community to place.

Nothing is going to be able to bring Pompano together or a city together, like the arts and the collection of these artists from a variety of different backgrounds and ethnicities speaks to what Pompano is.

It is very diverse.

It started out with our open mic event, Lyrics Lab, and through that process we had sort of American Idol like tryouts, and we selected the team that we thought would best represent Pompano Beach, and that's who is in the studio tonight doing these recordings.

New Lyrics Lab has been around as an open mic format for some ten years at this point, so a lot of great talent has been on our stage in the past.

And so this is really an effort to celebrate the local talent from Pompano Beach.

It's was really a proposal that was pitched to us by Sarah Peterson of the Round Table Project.

She had some desires to to really kind of showcase talent from Lyrics Lab.

She started her career at Lyrics Lab on that very stage many years ago.

My name is Erica Peterson and I do a lot, but mainly I run the round table project and we are producing the soundtrack for the city of Pompano Beach.

We have rappers, we have musicians, we have spoken word.

There's a group of talented people here in.

You never know what you're going to get when they're combined together, because we're creating all original music.

It's created from a group of people who don't know each other, didn't never knew each other before this unless they were at Lyrics Lab.

But then bringing them together in the studio, you're going to get some, you know, we have Jonas in there.

He's playing every instrument that was ever created.

And then you have Daniel, who's 16 and sings like he's 60 and you know, you have Yasmeen, who has the biggest voice I've heard since Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys.

Like, you have so much talent, so you never know what you're going to get when you're in the studio.

I think that the best musical projects take place when a whole bunch of different ideas come together into one, and that's what we're trying to do with this.

My name is Ezra Hayes.

I'm a musician.

I do R&B and rap music, but I love all genres, and I would love to do whatever genre that I possibly can.

I love experimenting when it comes to music.

Before Lyrics Lab, that was like my second performance ever.

I was the second time that I was ever on stage.

I love doing things that are difficult.

I love doing things.

I love challenging myself.

I learned to, you know, mix and master all my music and do all that.

So before Lyrics Lab, I was mainly just in my room, you know, making bedroom music and just working on my craft.

And I showed up to Lyrics Lab and here I am today.

Oh, my name is Danielle Nicole.

By profession.

I'm a project director by day, and I'm an artist by night.

Ooh, I sang here and there, um, growing up.

But, like mainly in church.

And it just so happened that night I was going to the event to actually support my aunt who was supposed to perform, and then they put me on the list and I freestyled the whole thing from start to finish, got the crowd involved, and that was the end of all, she wrote.

That's why I said maybe it was a hidden talent I didn't realize I had.

That became alive on a day that I just so happened to be there like that.

You want to keep the first half and just punch the second?

Yeah.

Can I hear it back real quick?

Sure.

My name is Jonas Arthur.

I am a singer songwriter, musician.

I've played music all my life.

I'm songwriting, singing, playing, you know, different instruments on the on the songs.

And it's been a it's been a really fun, fun time collaborating with the other artists and producers and, and just everyone involved coming over the summer, I had this, you know, kind of itching and desire to play some original songs just at a local open mic or something.

I was looking online to see what was, you know, what was happening in town and found lyrics lab live online, performed a couple songs and it was really cool, a really fun time.

A few months later, I got a message on Instagram and says, you know, hey Jonas, you know you were selected to be a part of the Pompano Project.

You know, we'd love to have you.

I was like, oh, okay.

Well, I guess it was meant to be.

Da da da da da da da da da da da da.

I won't fight.

It.

I am Yasmeen Mitri.

I make R&B soul music, and my role in this project is to create some music for the city of Pompano Beach.

Growing up, I was operatically trained, so I was trained to sing opera.

But I also have an immense love for R&B, jazz, soul, the blues.

And when I realized that was a whole other octave lower than what I was used to singing, I had to reboot a few things, but while keeping the range.

So now I have four octaves.

Pretty much.

I met a couple of friends at one open mic that I used to go to, so then I was like, oh, you know, let's hit up every open mic.

This is fun.

And then I found Lyrics Lab through Facebook and we're like, let's check it out.

And we keep going ever since.

From the time that I've been since like 2017, going to the open mics and stuff, I've never heard of a city putting together an EP, so the chance to be on one is incredible, especially the first ever one.

I'm like, oh, oh, okay.

We're going to listen back.

We're fortunate to also have a great partner with the Power Station studio, which is of course based here in Pompano.

So just a lot of things came together from the roundtable project, pitching the project, our desire to incubate local talent, this partnership with Power Station Studio.

So it was kind of a coalescing of all the right elements to get us to where we are today, to get in a studio and go through the process of creating music and creating an EP.

You know, it's a learning experience.

I am working with a group of producers that are amazing.

David Kennedy is such a teacher with the artist and teaching them how to record and what he hears from a producing and engineer standpoint.

Avi and Ty, they're all professionals and I appreciate them working on this project with us, because it has been a task.

When you're not working on your project, it's other artists project, and it has given me an opportunity to see that, hey, I'm a producer.

More albums, so.

We'll have individual songs from each artist and, you know, we'll find songs that work well for collaboration and, you know, just find moments in each song and even the whole song to collaborate as a as a team.

Each person brings their own flavor to the EP, and we kind of created like a little family.

Like we are excited to see each other.

We check in, we make sure everything's good and it's great.

Truly, we make some friends for a lifetime.

So how are y'all doing?

What you're about to hear is nothing but people sharing what it is that they do with people like you, who want to hear what they have to say, what they have to show, what they have to share.

Because everybody is sharing a little piece of themselves like we always do, in the hopes that we'll get back something from that sharing.

Pop pop pop pop pop.

This lady is calling me to take me to the beach.

Pompano is where we are.

Here to celebrate the soundtrack.

The Pompano Beach soundtrack, volume one.

Make some noise for that, ladies and gentlemen.

Make some noise for beach.

Pompano is where I wanna be.

This is a year and a half in the making to reach this point.

All I know is.

Where I want to be.

Next track is called fantasy.

I myself, I produce it, I play guitar, Azriel on the vocals.

So hope you all enjoy it.

Uh, that's pretty much it y'all.

Enjoy the rest of the album.

Thank you all so much.

Fantasy.

Show me your heart.

We gon be alright.

Racing, racing.

Mind in the matrix.

You get me so high.

Just with our conversation.

Patience baby, just have.

Patience when you speak I swear mama got you on.

Cadence.

Everybody.

No matter what style of music, what where you come from.

We all connect and unite under the same thing of music.

So that in itself is the initial spark that brings everybody together.

It was man, this song is called Different Love.

It's a kind of love that's different.

This is definitely opened me up to opportunities, even for myself, to realize that nothing is a straight arrow.

Nothing is a straight path.

Everything has curves and whistles in it.

And so just following life where it takes you is definitely opens the door to different opportunities.

Sometimes I just want a friend I know I can trust and hold.

We all come from different sorts of backgrounds, but we all relate in music and I think that's a big thing that a lot of us should learn that music is a universal language.

The beauty of being able to come together with people that you've really never met before, being able to hear their stories and collaborate with them musically, and just to be able to create something new has been really enriching.