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Growing up with movies like Freaky Friday and Cheetah Girls inspired Jael Davis to pursue music and start her own band.

Ever since Junior Jael Davis was little, she was around music. Her mom, brother, and grandma were singers, and her grandma even sang backup for Billie Holiday. “We’re just like a very music oriented family, but I didn’t really start getting into it until Disney Channel,” Davis said.

Cheetah Girls really opened the eyes of young Davis. She said “I love the style, I love the fashion, and I love singing. So that kind of inspired me, like I wanted to be a little Cheetah Girl.” Though she is not in choir at her school, her main audience is people in her local church. She is apart of the church choir and finds connection between her love for music and her secureness in Christianity. “Not only is it to put on a good worship session for the audience, but it’s also like a spiritual connection for god,” Davis Said.

Besides her church choir, Davis is also starting a band with some of her friends. The group is mostly doing covers of bands like Weezer and The Internet at the moment, but they plan to make original songs with an Indie Pop vibe. The inspiration for the band was Lindsey Lohan in Freaky Friday. “There’s one scene in the movie where they’re in the garage and the next thing, they’re in song. I was so inspired by that, and I was like, ‘I need to fulfill my childhood dream and create a band,’” Davis said.

She doesn’t plan to fully leave creating music behind when picking up a career. She is fascinated on how the human mind works and how people react socially.  “I want to do something with psychology like in the field of neuroscience, but I feel like music just falls in line with that,” Davis said. Her passion for music will make it very hard if she has to leave her rock and roll dreams in the past.

“I still want to recreate that Freaky Friday song,” Davis said.