Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini is an American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she began making and releasing music on SoundCloud as a teenager. Doja Cat is known for creating music videos and songs that achieve popularity on social media applications such as TikTok and YouTube. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and has won two American Music Awards.
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Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini is an American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she began making and releasing music on SoundCloud as a teenager. Doja Cat is known for creating music videos and songs that achieve popularity on social media applications such as TikTok and YouTube. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and has won two American Music Awards in addition to the MTV Video Music Award for Push Best New Artist and its European counterpart. Her second studio album, Hot Pink, reached the top 10 of the US Billboard 200 and spawned the single \”Say So\”, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart following the release of two remixes featuring Nicki Minaj. In February 2018, she released the promotional single, “Go to Town”, which was released with the accompanying music video on the same day and would become the lead single from her debut album Amala. The song went viral in late 2019, having become an sleeper hit in countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States, having the latter having become a sleeper hit after a challenge on the video-sharing platform TikTok. In mid-2015, DojaCat signed to OG Maco’s label, OGG. In late 2016, she collaborated with Maco on the song “Monster” from his album “Children of The Rage” She has released two albums, one of which is scheduled to be released in 2019, and two of which are scheduled for release in 2020.
Her father is a South African actor, composer and film producer of Zulu ethnicity best known for starring in the 1992 musical film Sarafina! She got her stage name from one of her cats as well as her favorite strain of marijuana, stating, \”I was heavily addicted to weed and weed culture, so when I began rapping I thought of the word ‘doja’ and how it sounds like a girl’s name. “Doja Cat” was released as a single in late 2012, and soon caught the attention of Kemosabe Records and RCA Records where she signed a joint record deal at the age of 17, subsequently releasing her debut EP Purrr! in 2014. Her song \”So High\” was repackaged and released as her solo commercial debut single prior to the EP’s release, and was later featured on the Fox series Empire in the third episode of the show’s first season. Her mother, Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer, is a Jewish-American painter. Her family moved to New York City, where they lived in an ashram and practiced Hinduism for four years. She claims that she lacked interest in school from then on, instead taking a liking for dance. She eventually dropped out of high school at age 16 while in her junior year. She taught herself to sing, rap and use GarageBand while at home without a job, frequently making music and uploading it to SoundCloud. She later moved back to California in Oak Park, where her mother enrolled her in ballet, tap and jazz lessons as a child.
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