49 Facts About Tinashe

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Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe, known mononymously as Tinashe, is an American singer, dancer, and actress.

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Between 2007 and 2011, Tinashe was a member of the girl group the Stunners.

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Tinashe Kachingwe was born on February 6,1993, in Lexington, Kentucky, and is the eldest child of college professors Michael and Aimie Kachingwe.

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Tinashe's father is a professor who teaches acting at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a first generation Zimbabwean immigrant of the Shona descent, while her mother, who is of Danish, Norwegian, and Irish descent, teaches physical therapy at California State University, Northridge.

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Tinashe's parents met each other on a blind date during their time as undergrads at the University of Iowa.

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Tinashe's name means "We have God " in the Shona language.

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Tinashe attended Crescenta Valley High School for a year before finishing early to pursue a career in music full-time.

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Tinashe began studying ballet, tap, and jazz dancing at the age of 4, and continued to compete in various styles as a part of a dance company until she was 18.

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Tinashe scored roles in a number of TV shows, movies, and children's videos in the early 2000s, including the movies Cora Unashamed, Call Me Claus, Masked and Anonymous, and two TV series: Rocket Power and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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In 2007, Tinashe joined girl group the Stunners, founded by Vitamin C Her bandmates were friends Marisol Esparza, Allie Gonino, Hayley Kiyoko, and Kelsey Sanders.

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Tinashe produced beats with Logic Pro, and filmed and edited her own music videos with Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro.

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On June 24,2011, Tinashe released her first solo music video, a cover of Lil Wayne's single "How to Love".

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Tinashe was featured on the dance single "Artificial People" by OFM, released on September 12,2011.

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On November 25,2011 Tinashe released the music video for "Can't Say No", her first original solo song.

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On July 13,2012, Tinashe announced that she had signed with RCA Records.

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On November 26,2013, Tinashe released her third mixtape, Black Water.

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Tinashe worked with several producers, including Clams Casino, Ryan Hemsworth, Stuart Matthewman, DJ Mustard, T-Minus, Mike Will Made It, Boi-1da, Fisticuffs, Best Kept Secret, Ritz Reynolds and London on the track.

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On January 13,2014, Tinashe released her first single from her debut album, "2 On".

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On June 29,2014, Tinashe made her national television debut, performing her single "2 On" at the BET Awards pre-show.

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In late January 2015, Tinashe was reported working with writers and producers from Prescription Songs, Max Martin and Taylor Parks on her second studio album.

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On March 16,2015, Tinashe released a seven-song mixtape entitled Amethyst for free download.

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On September 2,2015, Tinashe released a teaser for her then second studio album Joyride on YouTube.

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On October 2,2015, Tinashe released another song "Player", featuring Chris Brown.

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On October 21,2015, Tinashe was featured on British electronic duo Snakeships' track All My Friends which featured Chance the Rapper which reached the top 20 in five countries.

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Tinashe announced the Joyride World Tour on January 12,2016, to support the album Joyride.

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The tour was ultimately canceled as Tinashe wanted to focus on making new songs for the album.

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Tinashe revealed another promotional single, "Ride of Your Life", on February 2,2016.

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On July 15,2016, Tinashe released a new single "Superlove".

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On September 15,2016, Tinashe performed her new song "Company" on MTV's Wonderland.

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On October 25,2016, Tinashe was confirmed working with American singer Britney Spears for a remix version of Spears' song, "Slumber Party".

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Tinashe appeared on the cover of Nylons October 2016 issue, just as designer brand Alexander Wang was collaborating with her in a video for its Fall 2016 campaign.

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On November 4,2016, Tinashe released a digital album and short film titled Nightride which she said had been in production for two years alongside her Joyride album.

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In March 2017, Tinashe joined Maroon 5 on the Maroon V Tour.

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On July 11,2017, Tinashe stated that she is working on her second album, Joyride, with producers Mike WiLL Made It, TM88, Metro Boomin, Diplo, Boi-1da, Charlie Handsome and others.

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On June 9,2018, record producer Hitmaka revealed his role as executive producer on Tinashe's upcoming album titled Nashe.

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Fox announced a live adaption to the musical Rent, as Rent: Live, in which Tinashe portrayed the lead female role of Mimi Marquez, an exotic dancer who struggles with addiction and HIV.

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On May 28,2021, Tinashe posted a cryptic teaser for her fifth studio album on her social media accounts.

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On July 22, Tinashe announced the release date of 333 as August 6,2021, and released the song "I Can See the Future" the same day.

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Tinashe was the first artist to be announced to be featured on the rebooted MTV Cribs, where she showed her Los Angeles house in the Hollywood hills including her home studio.

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Tinashe was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2022.

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On July 29,2022, Tinashe released the single "New to You" alongside Calvin Harris, Normani and Offset, for Harris' album Funk Wav Bounces Vol.

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Tinashe said she writes her songs and is open to writing collaborations with other artists.

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Tinashe's writing consists of "things that are relative to me and my life; whether that's relationships I've had or relationships that people I know are in, because I can put myself into other people's mindstates and write from that point of view too".

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Tinashe's style has been compared to Janet Jackson, Aaliyah, Mya and James Blake.

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Tinashe was inspired by the music her parents would play in the house when she was young.

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Tinashe considers Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Sade, Christina Aguilera, James Blake, the xx, and SBTRKT as significant influences on her.

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In 2016, Tinashe resided with her family in La Crescenta, a suburb 20 miles north of Los Angeles.

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Tinashe was in a relationship with Australian basketball player Ben Simmons from November 2017 to May 2018.

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Tinashe is half-Zimbabwean as her father is an immigrant from Zimbabwe.