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An all-girl rockband signed to the record company Starlight Music. Originally consisting of four members, Jem, Kimber,
Aja, Shana, until Raya joined in on drums. We get to follow their climb to the top of the charts, aswell as their music
battles with their rivals, the Misfits and later The Stingers.
Their music is referred to in the cartoon as "rock", which was the common word for that kind of music at the time, although "pop" perhaps describes it better. The main writer Christy Marx's own words to describe it is "bright, bouncy, generally up, full of positive and hopeful things to say about life. The four women harmonize beautifully together without effort".
  
Jerrica is the intelligent and hard working manager of Jem and the Holograms.
She is also the owner and executive of the record company Starlight Music,
which she inherited from her father along with the Starlight
Foundation, a foster home for girls who were orphaned or
came from troubled homes. Since Jerrica's and Kimber's parents died, Jerrica has
also been keeping an eye on her younger sister, almost like a mother.
When she touches her starshaped remote microprojector earrings and says the words "Showtime, Synergy",
the holographic
computer Synergy projects a hologram over Jerrica's body of Jem, the pinkhaired singer
of the band The Holograms. Only the members of The Holograms, know that Jem and Jerrica is
the same person.
Unfortunately she can't be both at the same time, and she wants to be close to her
boyfriend Rio even when she is Jem. Rio has fallen for both, unknowing that they're the same
person. Jerrica wants to tell him, but fears Rio would be so hurt if he found out, that she would lose him.
Episodes:
Jem: All 65. Here are the key episodes for Jem herself:
Trivia:
Throughout the series we find out
she is great at skateboarding, hang gliding (according to "Broadway Magic"), racing (she broke all the previous
indy speed records in "Intrigue At The indy 500"), skiing ("Last Resorts"),
swordmanship (in "Renaissance Woman"), acting (Starbright 3-parter, and nominated for an Oscar in "Hollywood
Jem" 2-parter).
Jerrica sometimes gets tired about hearing about Jem, almost as if she is jealous of herself.
According to Synergy, what Rio and Riot like about Jem is that she knows how to relax
and have fun. And what Rio is attracted to about Jerrica is her inner self, which will
always shine through her outward appearance.
Rio once said Jem is alot of fun but that Jerrica is twice the woman Jem is.
Jem has her own celebrity star on Hollywood BLVD (in the cartoon).
Jem bets on number 22 on a roulette table. Maybe her lucky number?
   Jerrica's younger sister, and the youngest of the Holograms. She is the keyboard player and songwriter of the Holograms, but she is brilliant with any kind of instrument. She tends to be a bit immature and less responsible at times. Sometimes she feels like she doesn't get the credit she deserves in the band, and wants more attention for her talent and work.
Episodes:
Trivia:
She had the same haircolor all her life.
Except for being a musician, she works at Starlight Music where she has her own office.
But apparently she knows nothing about business.
Kimber is good with animals. She likes birds and thinks dolphins are cute.
She used to spend time at Christy's stables when Emmett was alive, where her favorite
horse was called "Lucky". It's white with a horse shoe symbol on it's forehead.
Kimber is an extremely good swimmer, a great surfer and diver.
She can be very brave. But is afraid of big spiders and extreme heights.
Kimber has an exact lookalike in princess/queen Adriana of Morvania, whom is a fan of Jem and the Holograms.
Not even Jerrica can tell them apart.
Kimber once formed a friendship and released an album with Stormer, called "Back to Back".
Her favorite radio station is KMAX, she practically always listens to it while driving.
She keeps a diary, where she sometimes writes down thoughts that turn into songs.
Infact, she can write a song in only one day.
Kimber once got herself her own new tougher identity (with a very different look, with orange hair)
when she asked Synergy to change her into someone hard and mean, someone who can never be hurt.
When it comes to music, according to Aja, if it didn't happen last week, Kimber is not interested.
But apparently she likes the band the Monkeys.
  
When she was 11, she became the first girl to be adopted by Jerrica and Kimber's parents as a foster
girl to live in Starlight House. Growing up togheter, Aja has become
Jerrica's best friend and right hand. She plays guitar in the Holograms, and loves cars and
motorcycles, so she is usually
the resident chauffeur at Starlight Mansion when the girls are off to somewhere.
She is the most athletic one of the girls, and makes sure the other girls stay in
shape and play sports. She knows a little karate, which she has taugh Jerrica and the other
Holograms, and she also knows a little chinese, both which she learned while
she still lived in China.
Episodes:
Trivia:
She got along better with Rio when they were younger than Jerrica did, as Aja was a bit of a
tomboy and Jerrica wasn't.
She has had the same haircolor asince she was very young.
Her loveinterest in the series is Stormer's brother, Craig Phillips, who is a drummer.
   The second foster girl to move into Starlight House. She played drums in the Holograms for a while, and later decided to switch to guitar. She also dreams of working as a fashion designer, and often designs clothes for the Holograms and Starlight Girls. She gives alot of attention to the Starlight girls who get their share of tutoring in music, art and sewing. She is dating the director Anthony Julian.
Episodes:
Trivia:
She was the first of the Holograms to have a boyfriend, as far as can be seen in the series,
introduced to her by Lindsey Pierce.
Shana is very faithful to Anthony, she has Anthony's picture in a locket.
   The newest member of the Holograms, who took over on drums after Shana, by winning a drum duel in the talent search held by Starlight Music. She has played drums since she was very young, and is also good with other percussion instruments. Raya is a bit shy, but can have a temper when she's angry. Her parents came to the USA from Mexico and owns and operates their own nursery of domestic and exotic plants. Raya is the only daugther, with three brothers. Although she was born in the USA, she has a slight accent from her parents, and she does speak Spanish aswell.
Episodes:
Trivia:
Raya always wanted sisters.
Raya has blue eyes, while the rest of her family has brown eyes.
Mexico is where Raya's family comes from, but she had never been there until she went with
Jem and the Holograms to record a music video.
Raya thinks Greece is one of the most romantic countries in the world.
When Hasbro first told Christy about the new character Raya, she looked up "Raya"
to see if it meant anything in Spanish, but didn't find much that made sense. So Christy
came up with the idea of Raya just being a nickname that her father gave her. The last name
"Alonso" was the name of a hispanic person Christy knew.
Jem fans often misspell her last name with a Z instead of S.
With all the orphans on the show, Christy liked the idea of throwing an entire functional
family into the mix, Raya's family.
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