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Doja Cat
Genres
Occupations
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • producer
Years active2014–present
LabelsRCA Records
Websitewww.dojacat.com

Doja Cat (real name: Amala Zandile Dlamini) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer. Born in 1995 in Malibu, California, she is based in Los Angeles.

Doja Cat comes from an artistic family. Her father, Dumisani Dlamini, is a South African actor, composer and film producer best known for Sarafina!. Her Jewish-American mother, Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer, is a painter, and her grandmother was an artist as well. Doja Cat studied piano and dance as a child and teenager. The rap her brother listened to motivated her to develop her writing and rapping skills. Inspired by Erykah Badu, Pharrell, Jamiroquai, Party Next Door, and Drake, as well as Indian culture, Hinduism, and Japanese culture, she released her first single in 2013.

She came to prominence in March 2014 when she signed to RCA Records and released her debut EP, Purrr!, described as "spacey, eastern-influenced R&B" by The Fader. Premiering the video for the single "So High," Vibe described her as an "18-year-old psychedelic prodigy". The song was featured on the Empire soundtrack (Season 1, Episode 3). Four years after its release, "So High" had received nearly 18 million streams on Spotify and millions more on Soundcloud, while the video had garnered 14 million views on Vevo/YouTube.

Preparing for the March 30, 2018 release of her first full-length album, titled Amala, she released the single "Roll With Us." Produced by Jerry "tizhimself" Powell, Rogét Chayayed, and Yeti, the song was featured on Spotify's New Music Friday and Global Viral 50 playlists, and streamed 960,000 times within seven weeks of its release. A second single, "Go To Town," also produced by Powell, with a video directed by Jabari Jacobs and produced by Sheira Davies (Beyoncé, Kygo, Pentatonix), followed on March 9, 2018.

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