Lawrenceville Boys & Girls Club Members Star in Music Video

Victor Nkwocha, 17, always has new ideas and tunes spinning in his head. He's found a home at the teen center of the Lawrenceville Boys & Girls Club. You can often find him after school in the studio there working on a project. So, when he and three other LBGC members were tapped to help write a song and star in a music video, he drew from experiene.

The opportunity came through a Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta program designed to help high school students prepare for college and BGCMA alumnus, Mike Twum. The College Bound program helps students, ages 14-18, through the college preparation and application process. Participants get one-on-one academic guidance. "89% of students who go through the College Bound program not only graduate high school, but go on to college," said Kimberly Reaves, director of college and career development.

Twum, 28, approached College Bound and asked if he and his production partners, Nomineez Music Group, could produce a theme song for the program. "I pitched the idea and they loved it," said Twum. Victor Nkwocha, Elizabeth Golden-Bell, Korey Turner and Susan Garcia were chosen for the song. The teens wrote the lyrics with the help of the Nomineez Music Group. "Writing the song wasn't hard because I based it off me a little bit," said Nkwocha. "Moving Up" tells the story of a student who wasn't serious about school, but learned responsibility in the College Bound program.

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