 Through interviews, assessments and test performances conducted by Mansouri and co-producer Tony Danza, the number of eligible applicants was reduced to a dozen and eventually three of the most talented were chosen through a competitive elimination process to spearhead the musical project.Badri received a sentence of seven years, while Malik and Mirak were sentenced to three and four years imprisonment respectively.For an entire year, the three worked regularly on various workshops for songwriting, composition, and training for recordings and computer-assisted production.