Doja Cat
Amalaratna Zandile Dlamini (born October 21, 1995), known professionally as Doja Cat, is an American singer, rapper and songwriter.[4] She first rose to prominence with the release of the music video for her song "Mooo!", which went viral in 2018. She subsequently became known for creating music videos and songs that achieve widespread popularity online, specifically on social media apps like TikTok.[5][4]
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Doja Cat began making and releasing music on SoundCloud when she was a teenager. She signed a joint record deal with RCA Records and Kemosabe Records at the age of 17 and subsequently released her debut extended play, Purrr!, in 2014.[6] She released her debut studio album, Amala, in 2018, followed by a deluxe repackage in 2019, which included the singles "Tia Tamera" and "Juicy". Her second studio album Hot Pink (2019) reached number 9 on the US Billboard 200. It spawned the single "Say So", which reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart
Amalaratna Zandile Dlamini was born on October 21, 1995 into an artistic family in Tarzana, Los Angeles.[8][9] Her mother, Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer, is a Jewish-American painter.[10] Her absent father, Dumisani Dlamini, is a South African actor, composer and film producer of Zulu ethnicity best known for Sarafina![11][12] Following birth she immediately moved to Rye, New York, where she lived for five years.[13] She returned to Oak Park, California with her single mother, where she experienced a "sporty childhood",[14] often skating and visiting Malibu for surf camps.[15] It was during this time when she participated in ballet, tap and jazz lessons.[15] Her mother played music from artists such as D’Angelo, Jamiroquai, Tupac, Earth, Wind & Fire and Erykah Badu in the house.[13][16] She returned to Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles at the age of 11 and a half, where she lived in an ashram and practiced Hinduism for four years.[17][18][19] During this time she also took part in breakdancing classes, further joining a competitive troupe.[15] She would frequently skip school to participate in a chatroom filled with offensive rhetoric.[20] She told Paper that she had a near-"religious" obsession with the unnamed chat room, and would still participate in it as of December 2019.
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