Howard High Student in Cake’s Latest Music Video

In putting together the music video for “The Winter,” the band Cake asked fans to participate. The first who responded to an email call would be selected. 

Last week, Kaeleigh Green of Hanover saw the video—in which she performs the lyrics in sign language—for the first time.

“My friends think it's very cool, and one of them told me it's in her bucket list to be in a music video,” said Green, who is 17.

When she and her mother, Charlene Daniel-Green, were selected to submit a clip, the producers asked them to lip sync. 

“But it was her idea to do her portion in American Sign Language,” said Daniel-Green. “When we checked with the producer, she thought that was a great idea.”

Green learned sign language at , where she is a rising senior. She verified that she was conveying the lyrics accurately with her American Sign Language teacher.

The producers assigned her a section of the song and asked her to perform it in "a part of the community that everyone local knows, but wouldn’t appear in a pamphlet about the town,” said Green.

In August 2011, Green signed Cake's lyrics in front of  for the video released in spring 2012.

“If you don't blink, you'll catch her between :49 - :53 seconds into the video,” Daniel-Green told Elkridge Patch.

The mother and daughter have seen Cake twice in concert—at the 9:30 Club in 2011 and RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, in May 2012.

"This was really cool," said Daniel-Green. "In fact, my husband found some sort of online review about the video, and it included commentary along the lines of...'and someone in the clip is even performing the song in sign language.' "