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PHILADELPHIA, Nov 5, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Since U.S. journalist Deborah Gregory created the Cheetah Girls eight years ago, the musical group has been a positive example of multiculturalism.
The real-life singing trio is currently made up of Kiely Williams, Adrienne Bailon and Sabrina Bryan, but the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that originally the musical group was created by Gregory to offer multicultural ideas through literature.
Gregory created the fictional musical group for a series of 16 novels, but the concept eventually spawned two cable films and an eventual real-life version of the literary creation.
"The books are really an explosion of multiculturalism," said Disney exec Gary Marsh, whose company aired the two Cheetah Girls films. "That carried over to the movies, from the color of the cast to the rhythms of their songs. It spreads across every ethnic, cultural and geographic barrier."
The Inquirer said the real-life version of the group now travels across the United States offering its festivals of music and multiculturalism.
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