Gabriels

Gabriels are a British-American three-piece band consisting of Jacob Lusk, Ryan Hope and Ari Balouzian. The band formed after meeting in Los Angeles in 2016. They were nominated for BBC Radio 1's Sound of... for 2023. Formation Hope and Balouzian were working together on a film in 2016 and were searching for a choir for the soundtrack when they came across the work of Lusk. Lusk had previously appeared on American Idol in 2011 and sang backing for Diana Ross and Gladys Knight but they hadn’t seen this; at the time Lusk was orchestrating an amateur choir.