IQ was an American teenage pop and hip hopgirl group. The group consisted of sisters Sadiea and Nyla Williams, Gicelle Valerio and Lauren Mafera, all from Lunenburg, Massachusetts. The group split in 2008 to pursue other projects.

• Nyla Williams (born 1990) was Miss Massachusetts of the National American Miss Massachusetts Junior Teen beauty pageant of 2005 and 2006.^[1] She is also a poet and dancer with aspirations of modeling and fashion designing. Both she and her sister, Sadiea, are ofAfrican-American,Scottish,Pakistani andAmerican Indian descent. She was a rapper and vocalist for IQ.
• Gicelle Valerio (born 1989) isHispanic-American. She is ofBolivian,Dominican,Spanish, andItalian descent. Valerio was a vocalist and rapper for IQ as well as the choreographer. She was accepted toFitchburg State College to major in nursing and her aspirations is to become a graduate student to major in business as well. Her interests includes fashion, dancing, gymnastics and modeling.
• Sadiea Williams (born 1989) was a rapper and vocalist for IQ. She is an athlete who is interested inbasketball,cross-country andtrack & field. She was an all-star basketball player atLunenburg High School.^[2] She has been accepted to an Ivy League SchoolBrown University to pursue basketball.
• Lauren Mafera (born 1989) was the main vocalist for the band and replacement for Mikayla Campbell after she quit IQ to work on Broadway. She is a photographer, singer, and dancer. Her interests include drawing, fashion, photography, and singing. Her aspirations are to pursue college with a Business degree and continuing photography.

IQ first formulated through a school talent show. Sisters Sadiea and Nyla, asked their father, Mark, to compose songs for their performances.^[3] The girls performed the song "School" (a later song on their debut album). The overall response from young people was outstanding.In the group, the Williams sisters and Valerio both rapped and performed back-up singing vocals. Mafera was the main vocalist.

IQ performed in Boston, New York and Hollywood to promote the release of their EP,It's Like That, initially released on AppleiTunes in May 2005. OnNew Year's Eve of 2005, they performed at the Disney Jingle Jam in Boston withB5,Everlife andJada. In 2006, they released a re-make of theFrankie Valli & The Four Seasons song "Big Girls Don't Cry" as their first single onRadio Disney^[4]

IQ continued to perform shows with Radio Disney and obtained the prestige of becoming aRadio Disney Incubator artist. In July 2006, their debut album,Roll Call in July, distributed by WPE Music, LLC through Bungalo/Universal.

In February 2008, the group worked on a sophomore album titledCrushBungalo Records/Universal Music but it was left unreleased. The debut single from the unreleased album was "Crush on U" and a remixed version which includes artists such asMighty Mystic; a Jamaican musician,Baby Boy Da Prince,CL Smooth andJ. R. Writer fromDipset.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, the group split up when all the members went to different colleges.

• It's Like That EP (2005)
• Roll Call (2006)
• Crush (2008)

• IQ atAllmusic
• IQ atMySpace

• American girl groups
• Musical groups established in 2005
• American musical quartets
• Musical groups disestablished in 2008
• Universal Music Group artists
• American child singers
• Musical groups from Massachusetts
• American pop music groups
• Musical groups from Worcester, Massachusetts

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