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The Cheetah Girls (film Series)
''The Cheetah Girls'' is a media franchise created by Deborah Gregory based on her novel series of the same name. The series, which began in 1999, is about a female vocal group seeking success and fortune. In the book series, there are five Cheetah Girls, but in the first film adaption and its sequel, there are only four, while in the third film installment, there are only three. Characters The real-life R&B girl group Before Dark originally posed as three of the girls on the book covers. * Arike Rice Based On Aquanette "Aqua" Walker, (Books 1-4), * Jeni Rice Based On Anginette "Angie" Walker, (Books 1-4), * Mia Lee Based On Galleria "Bubbles" Garibaldi, (Books 1-8), * Brandi Stewart Based On Chanel "Chuchie" Simmons, * Imani Parks Based On Dorinda "Do" Rogers, * Davida Williams Based On Galleria "Bubbles" Garibaldi (Books 9-13), * Sonya Millen Based On Aquanette "Aqua" Walker (Books 5-13) * Sabrina Millen Based On Anginette "Angie" Walker, (Books 5-13) Detai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Gregory
Deborah Gregory is the author of the book series ''The Cheetah Girls (novel series), The Cheetah Girls''. She was co-producer of the Disney Channel Original Movies ''The Cheetah Girls (film), The Cheetah Girls'' and ''The Cheetah Girls 2'' and an executive producer for ''The Cheetah Girls: One World''. Early life Deborah Gregory was born in Brooklyn, New York. When she was only three years old, her mother was involuntary commitment, institutionalized, and young Deborah was put into foster care until she outgrew the system at the age of 18. As a teenager, she started designing her own clothes and fantasized about a singing career. At the age of eighteen, she attended the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and received her A.A.S. She graduated in 1986 with a BS in Cultural Studies from Empire State College (Metropolitan Center, NYC). Deborah was featured in Lise Funderburgs documentary book ''Black White Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity'' (1995). The Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anginette Walker
''The Cheetah Girls'' is a media franchise created by Deborah Gregory based on her novel series of the same name. The series, which began in 1999, is about a female vocal group seeking success and fortune. In the book series, there are five Cheetah Girls, but in the first film adaption and its sequel, there are only four, while in the third film installment, there are only three. Characters The real-life R&B girl group Before Dark originally posed as three of the girls on the book covers. * Arike Rice Based On Aquanette "Aqua" Walker, (Books 1-4), * Jeni Rice Based On Anginette "Angie" Walker, (Books 1-4), * Mia Lee Based On Galleria "Bubbles" Garibaldi, (Books 1-8), * Brandi Stewart Based On Chanel "Chuchie" Simmons, * Imani Parks Based On Dorinda "Do" Rogers, * Davida Williams Based On Galleria "Bubbles" Garibaldi (Books 9-13), * Sonya Millen Based On Aquanette "Aqua" Walker (Books 5-13) * Sabrina Millen Based On Anginette "Angie" Walker, (Books 5-13) Deta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of enslaved Africans who are from the United States. While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African-American, the majority of first generation immigrants do not, preferring to identify with their nation of origin. African Americans constitute the second largest racial group in the U.S. after White Americans, as well as the third largest ethnic group after Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of West/Central African with some European descent; some also have Native American and other ancestry. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Bailon
Adrienne Eliza Bailon-Houghton (née Bailon () ; born October 24, 1983) is an American television personality, singer, and actress. She is a former member of the girl groups 3LW and The Cheetah Girls. From 2013 to 2022, Bailon was a co-host of the daytime talk show ''The Real''; for which she has since won a Daytime Emmy Award. As an actress, Bailon appeared in ''The Cheetah Girls'' films, '' Coach Carter'' and '' All You've Got''. She has guest starred in numerous television series including ''That's So Raven'' (a role she reprises in the spin-off series ''Raven's Home''), and ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody''. In 2013, Bailon became the first Latina host of a daytime talk show in the US. She also competed in '' The Masked Singer'' in 2019 as the Flamingo, finishing in third place. Life and career 1983–2002: Early life, career beginnings, and 3LW Bailon was born to a Puerto Rican mother, Nilda Alicea and an Ecuadorian father, Freddie Bailón, on October 24, 1983. She g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoHo
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century. The area was developed from farmland by Henry VIII in 1536, when it became a royal park. It became a parish in its own right in the late 17th century, when buildings started to be developed for the upper class, including the laying out of Soho Square in the 1680s. St Anne's Church was established during the late 17th century, and remains a significant local landmark; other churches are the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory and St Patrick's Church in Soho Square. The aristocracy had mostly moved away by the mid-19th century, when Soho was particularly badly hit by an outbreak of cholera in 1854. For much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and its location for the headqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanel
Chanel ( , ) is a French high-end luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris. Chanel specializes in women's ready-to-wear, luxury goods, and accessories and licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear. Chanel is well known for its No. 5 perfume and "Chanel Suit". Chanel is credited for revolutionizing ''haute couture'' and ready-to-wear by replacing structured, corseted silhouettes with more functional garments that women still found flattering. History Coco Chanel Era ;Establishment and recognition (1909–1920s) The House of Chanel originated in 1909 when Gabrielle Chanel opened a millinery shop at 160 Boulevard Malesherbes, the ground floor of the Parisian flat of the socialite and textile businessman Étienne Balsan, of whom she was the mistress. Because the Balsan flat also was a salon for the French hunting and sporting élite, Chanel had the opportunity to meet their '' demi-mondaine'' mistresses who, as such, were women of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel ( , ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. This replaced the "corseted silhouette" that was dominant beforehand with a style that was simpler, far less time consuming to put on and remove, more comfortable, and less expensive, all without sacrificing elegance. She is the only fashion designer listed on ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond Haute couture, couture clothing, realizing her aesthetic design in jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product, and Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area (after Cuba) at , and third-largest by population, with approximately 10.7 million people (2022 est.), down from 10.8 million in 2020, of whom approximately 3.3 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The official language of the country is Spanish. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola before the arrival of Europeans, dividing it into five chiefdoms. They had constructed an advanced farming and hunting society, and were in the process of becoming an organized civilization. The Taínos also inhab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cubans
Cubans ( es, Cubanos) are people born in Cuba and people with Cuban citizenship. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds. Racial and ethnic groups Census The population of Cuba was 11,167,325 inhabitants in 2012. The largest urban populations of Cubans in Cuba (2012) are to be found in Havana (2,106,146), Santiago de Cuba (506,037), Holguín (346,195), Camagüey (323,309), Santa Clara (240,543) and Guantánamo (228,436). According to Cuba's Oficina Nacional de Estadisticas ONE 2012 Census, the population was 11,167,325 including: 5,570,825 men and 5,596,500 women. Source. European In the 2012 Census of Cuba, 64.1% of the inhabitants self-identified as white. Based on genetic testing (2014) in Cuba, the average European, African and Native American ancestry in those auto-reporting to be white were 86%, 6.7%, and 7.8%. The majority of the European ancestry comes from Spain. During the 18th, 19th and early p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rican American
Stateside Puerto Ricans ( es, link=no, Puertorriqueños de Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans ( es, link=no, puertorriqueño-americanos,), or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the United States proper of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who were born in or trace any family ancestry to the unincorporated US territory of Puerto Rico. As Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, all Puerto Ricans living on both the island and stateside have US citizenship. At 9.6% of the Hispanic population in the United States, Puerto Ricans are the second-largest Hispanic group nationwide, after Mexican Americans and are 1.78% of the entire population of the United States. Stateside Puerto Ricans are also the largest Caribbean-origin group in the country, representing over one-third of people with origins in the geographic Caribbean region. While the 2010 Census counted the number of Puerto Ricans living in the States at 4.6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Millen Sisters
The Millen Sisters (Sonya Nicole and Sabrina Antoinette Millen) are models/singers/actresses of African American descent, best known as models for Deborah Gregory, and singers for the ''Music City'' soundtrack. They are identical twins born to Steve and Mary Millen. Early life The twins started their singing career by participating in the Church choir. They performed at weddings, talent shows, minor league Baseball games, and at various Black history events. Entertainment career In 2008, the California Milk Processor Board, producers of the Got Milk? campaign, launched its "White Gold" campaign starring Sonya and Sabrina Millen as the Calcium Twins. The multi-faceted marketing effort was aimed at teenagers and featured "White Gold and The Calcium Twins", a fictional rock trio in a series of music videos, print ads, beauty products, websites and on over 750,000 schoolbook covers. The high point of the effort was the 2009 release of a 22-minute rock opera, "The Battle for Milkqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davida Williams
Davida Brittany Williams (born September 5, 1986) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as Claire Miller in ''Lizzie McGuire'' and Lauren in ''Raise Your Voice''. She is the daughter of the late David Williams and the older sister of Dana Williams (singer). Early life Williams grew up in Los Angeles, mostly around the San Fernando Valley. She began auditioning at age 8 and attended Louisville High School, an all girls Catholic high school in Woodland Hills. Williams went on to briefly attend Mount St. Mary's but dropped out to move to New York City, where she worked as a junior agent at Ford Models. It was during this time she wanted to take a break from acting. She is of mixed African-American and Italian descent. Career Williams was a former member of R&B group TG4 '' Tom Gurl Four'' Williams has appeared in a wide variety of television series including ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper" and '' Quintu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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