Hugo Serinese

Hugo Serinese (also known as HugoStarDance on YouTube and Instagram) is a musician and dancer who is Julian's best friend and has been his musical partner since 2017. Hugo is one half of the music duo Positive Voltage, which he joined in December 2017 after him and Julian collaborated on several tracks. Hugo also has a YouTube channel titled HugoStarDance, which boasts over 3,000 subscribers as of February 2021.

History
Hugo and Julian met in their freshman year of high school while attending Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, Vermont. They became friends quickly as they both shared an interest in music. Later on, Hugo and Julian started collaborating on music. Their first collaboration was a remix of Julian's song "Anti-Bullying Rap", released in June 2017. Hugo also helped with "Make Da Remix" which went on to become one of Positive Voltage's most popular songs.

Shortly after, Julian and Hugo created the YouTube channel "Awesome Squad" in June 2017. After the release of a few more music collaborations, Hugo joined Positive Voltage in December 2017 and Positive Voltage became a duo. They would go on to release several more singles including "Bro Time", "Science Is Cool" and "Ahora". In April 2018, Hugo, Julian, and their friend Jackson Wilson created the CVU Lunchtime Podcast, a podcast series where they would eat lunch and discuss topics related to school, video games, and music. In May 2018, Julian and Hugo release "The Fortnite Song" which went viral on Spotify and TikTok and has over 116,000 listens on Spotify as of February 2021. In the summer of 2018, Hugo created a YouTube channel titled HugoStarDance, where he creates gameplays and fan mashups of songs from the video game series Just Dance. The channel currently has over 3000 subscribers as of February 2021, and it's most popular video has over 1 million views.

Hugo and Julian have also collaborated on several video projects together, including music videos for several Positive Voltage songs. Julian was also featured in Hugo's short film 101 Highfives.

In 2020, Hugo began attending Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in New Media Design.