Nickname:	Mya / Mya Harrison / Mýa Harrison / Ms. Caramel
Known for:	Chicago / The Blues / Moulin Rouge!
Birth name:	Mya Marie Harrison
Birthday:	10 October 1978, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Height:	5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Available Photos	2078
Video Clips	4
Wallpapers	168

Mya combines soul & hip-hop into a package that is listenable, even after hearing her music a multiple amount of times. She has attitude in her music, but leaves the attitude in the studio when she steps out into the real world. Mya's collaboration with Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard for the hit 1998 song "Ghetto Supastar", shot her up to the upper echelon of the R&B industry, as the background singer with the soft voice who sang "you're a superstar, that is what you are... "
Professional singer Studied tap under Savion Glover of "Bring On Da Noise, Bring On Da Funk" and has performed at places such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Smithsonian and the Shakespeare Theater. Got her start as a tap dancer. Recorded a new version of the Patti LaBelle hit "Lady Marmalade" along with Pink, Christina Aguilera and 'Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones' for the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack. Lost out on the female lead role in Light It Up. Half Jamaican Half Italian Is from the Washington, DC metropolitan area, the same Metro area as Sandra Bullock, Alan Heitz, Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Regina Hall and Dwayne Winstead. Once tap-danced on stage with famous tap-dancer Gregory Hines. Is a vegan. Is a winner of Two MTV Video Music Awards and One Grammy Award. Parents are Sherman and Theresa. Younger brothers are Chaz and Nijel. She was named after Maya Angelou.

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