Cheetah Girls: Biography

Cheetah Girls
Genres:
Classical Music, Rock Music

Decades Active:
2000's


Popularity
Low



Going from a series of books about a girl pop band to a series of Disney TV movies about a girl pop band to an actual, touring girl pop band, the Cheetah Girls began as 16 youngadult books by Deborah Gregory. The series began in 1999 and quickly became a big enough phenomenon with tween girls that Disney adapted it into a madeforTV movie in 2003 that starred former Cosby Show and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper actress/singer RavenSymoné (also of Disney's Emmynominated and NAACP Image Awardwinning That's So Raven), singers/actresses Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams of the group 3LW, and actress/singer/dancer Sabrina Bryan. (Interestingly, some of the models who posed for the cover artwork on the Cheetah Girls books were in another, likeminded group, Before Dark.) RavenSymoné portrays the Cheetah Girls' fearless leader, Galleria, while Bailon plays wary Chanel, Williams is fashionista Aquanetta, and Bryan is vulnerable foster child Dorinda. The Cheetah Girls was such a big success, with DVD sales reaching doubleplatinum status, that it spawned a soundtrack, the 2005 Christmas album Cheetahlicious Christmas, and the Cheetah Girls 2 movie and soundtrack, which were released in 2006. That year, the Cheetah Girls became a living, breathing, touring act, hitting the road with the also hugely popular Vanessa Hudgens of Disney TV's other phenomenon, High School Musical. The live album The Party's Just Begun arrived in summer 2007. In September of that same year, the Girls, who were by now a trio (RavenSymoné had previously departed, pretty much after the first album, to pursue her solo career), released their first nonsoundtrack record, TCG.

- Heather Phares, All Music Guide

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