written by: Lorenzo almanza

Raise your voice, create one vision and spread positivity through music, this is the mantra that sisters Paola and Andrea Soto live by. Ever since they were young, these two sisters have always had a passion for the creative arts, especially music. “We were a musical family, me and my sisters loved acting, dancing, everything that has to do with being creative,” said Andrea.

Paola and Andrea Soto are the founders of Ghee The Band. They hoped to create opportunities for the next young generation of artists.

“We wanted to give children and their families and parents the opportunity to have this Hannah Montana style band that children can give their voices to and become stars, but without having their parents put them in the public eye necessarily,” Andrea said.

“I think it starts off with giving power and voice to all the different children around the world because we know there are so many talented kids out there that are very into the arts we wanted to give a voice to those children as well.”

What started off as a basic concept of teenage love for music, turned into the next childhood sensation. At a young age the Soto siblings fell in love with icons like Justin Bieber, Pitbull and Katy Perry. Soon, with their family’s creative aspect they branched out into the musical industry.

“We said why don’t we come up with this concept that we have music but it sounds like adult music, but actually has lyrics that children can sing to without being embarrassed and sounding childish.

They can still get into the flow of things of what it’s like to become an adult in an according and healthy manner,” Andrea said. This would all be the start of something life-changing. Putting their minds together, the family decided to start a digital band.

“I think everything just started shifting when we collaborate with a producer named in Mexico, he’s worked with numerous big artists, so we started collaborating with him to create the songs,” Andrea said.

It was their creativity that began the illustration of life-like characters. Characters that not only sang and danced, but also resembled that of the sisters.

“Melanie and Sue are based off my sister and I, so we put a lot of our personalities into these characters as well,” Andrea said.

“We also wanted to create a character that children all over the world could relate to. We know our personalities are not like everyone else’s, so we gave a personality to each of the characters that other people could identify with.”

Once the characters were set, it was all about the music. Music that would evolve with generations to come.

“For the music it was basically what we liked at the moment. We knew it had to be pop and upbeat, we really had to get it out there. We wanted to add some alternative sounds into it as well,” Andrea said. “We wanted to keep it basic of what was on the radio at the time because that’s what children were listening to.”

Children soon become the focal point of their project. Due to their love for music, the girls offset the idea that giving children opportunities was the best cause. Fast forward to now and Geeh the Band is currently looking for young artists to be a part of their new album.

“Basically, what we wanted to do is give back to our country, give back to our Latin roots and just like incorporate those children that are here and are talented and get them on board with the project,” they said.

Their vision has now turned into reality as millions of children worldwide can be a part of something special.

“We want to show that there is a lot of talent in the world and that anyone can voice these characters from any country anywhere in the world.”