Full Circle Boys: Connected from the start

MURRIETA, CA — Five young men gathered around a computer in the living room of a California home. They’d recently finished a major project: their latest single. But, on this day, they weren’t making music. They were hopping on a video call to tell their story to a stranger sitting in an office in Salt Lake City.

They’re called the Full Circle Boys, and they’re a boyband of five dancers whose lives were tied together long before they were making music together.

Dossan Bell, Oliver ‘Ollie’ Hincy, and Jagger Moon grew up attending Infinity Dance Studio in Ogden, Utah. Meanwhile, Sean Garrity and James Herron learned to dance together in California.

“We had grown up at a dance studio together since I was eight and he was nine,” Garrity said.

But the story starts even earlier, with the managers behind the band.

A history of music making

For fifteen years, Jon Lucero and Stacy Pyle started and managed several music groups. Eventually, they decided they wanted to combine music and dance, and they took to social media to see who they could find.

“We would actually scour YouTube and find people who were talented singers who were not signed,” Lucero said. Using YouTube and Vine, the pair put on concerts and even formed a pop rock band. But another vision drove them to look farther.

Lucero and Pyle wanted to create a boyband. One in the same vein as NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys.

“We were always praying for a dancing boyband,” Lucero said. “But we can never get the right group together.”

Sean, James, and Jagger join

Eventually, a phone call with a choreographer led to Sean Garrity auditioning and becoming the band’s first member. He was quick to refer some of his friends.

“I had a long list of maybe the 50 male dancers I had met in my life so far,” he said. “And Jagger and James were at the top of the list.”

“I said no,” Jagger Moon said. “Because I thought I was too old. I was 19 at the time.”

Moon said that, after graduating high school and in the midst of the pandemic, he felt lost. But the others managed to convince him to come meet the team in the summer of 2021.

“We’ve just been ripping and running since then,” Moon said. “The name Jagger Moon was destined to do something, I guess.”

James Herron was also hesitant at first.

“I grew up dancing… I never thought of singing or anything like that,” he said. 

“He’s so modest,” Pyle said, prompting a round of chuckles from the team.

But Garrity wouldn’t give up on the talent he saw in his friend. He talked Herron into singing and secretly recorded him. Then he sent that recording to Lucero and Konces.

“I guess the rest is history,” Herron said. “I finally ended up singing.”

The band continued for a time with the three, but eventually began looking for more members. That’s when Moon’s connections brought in the final two members.

Dossan and Ollie complete the team

“I grew up with Dossan and Oliver at our dance studio in Ogden,” Moon said. “I’ve known them most of my life.”

Dossan Bell had been preparing to serve as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but a health complications prevented him from going.

“So I got heart surgery,” Bell said. “I was like, what am I gonna do now?”

Shortly before the surgery, Moon reached out with an invitation.

“I just gotta ask,” he said. “I gotta try and see because he was starting to post singing videos on Instagram.”

“When I got that text I was very like: are you serious with me right now?” Bell said.

After recovering from the surgery, Bell made his decision.

“This is what I need to do,” he said. “So I said yes to the boy band.”

Finally, there came the search for the final member. The team was looking for someone young with “a bit more of that spice.”

“I knew about the boy band before,” Oliver Hincy said. “When Jagger was in it. So I remember teasing Jagger a little bit about it.”

Hincy had moved to California at the time and discovered through Snapchat that Bell was nearby. Surprised, Hincy called him over FaceTime and Bell showed him the band. They invited Hincy to join as their fifth member.

“I was like, oh, I don’t know about this,” Bell said. “And then as soon as I got off the call I was like wait, this could be this could be really cool.”

Hincy decided to join, and the band was complete.

The Full Circle Boys

With the band assembled, the team got to work putting music and dance together.

“It’s definitely a learning experience when you have five people that are still going through puberty trying to figure out their voice,” Garrity said. “And we’re trying to do five-part harmonies and figure out where we land. But we’ve definitely found where we want to go.”

As the boys were working to learn their new craft, Pyle noted how well they meshed as a team.

“The solidarity between the five of them because of their background — because they’ve known each other for so long — is the missing piece in any boy band.”

Along the way, the boys made another discovery. The two dance studios they had grown up attending were linked.

“We grew up at almost like mirror image studios,” Garrity said. “We had a choreographer that would travel from their studio to our studio. And so we would learn the same dances.”

“We just barely found this out,” Moon said. “Me and Sean were looking at old videos and I was like ‘Wait, that’s my choreo.’ And then he’s like ‘That’s my choreo.'”

So, from music events in California, to two connected dance studios, to a group of interconnected young dancers, the Full Circle Boys had finally come, well, full circle.

“Moral of the story: our name is Full Circle Boys, but it really is ‘full circle.'” Bell said.