In 2010, Mike Nazzaro worked at Universal Records.
Instead, Nazzaro noticed one of the openers, a member of The Stunners.
Tinashe was easy to identify," Nazzaro toldDazed.
“She was only 16 or 17, but she had ‘it’ she was a star.”
Nazzaro soon realized why the teenager conducted herself like an industry vet.
“She was super professional, and already had such a heavy background in entertainment,” Nazzaro noted.
No matter how much you may think she’s already hit her peak, she continues to grow.
She was born in Kentucky, but as an interracial couple, her parents felt uncomfortable there.
Instead, they moved to California in 2001.
“Nobody wanted to f*** with me,” she recalled.
“As far as the guys go, nobody wanted to like me or date me.
They’d talk to me in secret and then at school they’d ignore me.”
Instead, she left high school after ninth grade to pursue entertainment.
After all, her love of performance had shown up at a very early age.
“I’ve done some cool stuff in my life.
It was a really cool experience.”
On that show, she was one of the live-action leads.
“I’m watching all of the old season 1 episodes- HAHAHA!!
SO FUNNY!!”
“I look sooo wittleeee.”
She later toldBusiness Insiderthat she was grateful for the experience.
“I think it taught me so much about the music industry,” she said.
I’d never gone on tour before.
I’d never shot a professional music video before.
“Just the most piercing screams you’ve ever heard.
I felt like the s*** because I was kind of a part of it too.
The fans were screaming for us, too, because we were just somewhat associated.”
In addition to industry experience, being in The Stunners also helped grow Tinashe’s confidence.
“I was like, ‘Okay, I know how this works now.'”
She released several mixtapes, signing with RCA Records.
Tinashe finally hit the mainstream with “2 On,” a track about mixing alcohol and weed.
The song was her first and biggest hit, having climbed all the way to No.
24 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It’s really a blessing."
An early hit like “2 On” can be a curse, too.
Tinashe later told Business Insider that she felt pressured to live up to that song.
Still, she told Complex, she was ready for even more.
“It’ll eventually work because it can’t not work.”
Spears told MTV (viaYahoo!
She was amazing."
After the song was released, Tinashe joined Spears onstage at her Las Vegas residency to perform the song.
OnX, she shared a snap of a handwritten note explaining the intention behind the project.
In 2018, however, that all changed.
Tinashe had been dating 76ers player Ben Simmons, butTMZcaptured Simmons leaving a club with Kendall Jenner.
Tinashe, it seems, was at the same club.
What is he doing!
What an idiot!"
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“I drank for, like, six months after that!
Are you kidding me?”
“I was, like, wasted for months.”
Still, she was gracious in an interview withBillboard, noting, “There were definitely ups and downs.
I give them a lot of credit for helping me start out.
That fall, she put out an album called “Songs For You.”
“It’s a vibe!”
“It was like, survival in space and on Mars …
The nerd in me couldn’t say no.”
She has to win.”
“The audience is already ready to party!”
“Everyone’s here with great energy, great excitement.”
“Who doesn’t like that?”
“I think people not having those conversations is really dangerous … Kelly is serving a 20 year prison sentencefor various sex crimes.
“I forget that it even exists.
That is so embarrassing.
That is so unreal that I even have a song with R. Ditto her collaboration with Brown who assaultedRihannain a horrific domestic violence incident in 2009.
“He was their biggest artist that they had on rhythmic radio at the time,” she recalled.
“To me, I was like, ‘Well, this is a pop song.
So, I really don’t feel like we should put Chris on it.’
That doesn’t compute to me.”
Brown seems to have taken that personally.
She full of dat evil.
Shawty career is nonexistent.
I’ll talk to him.
It’s all love.
It’s all good.”
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Is somebody gonna match Tinashe’s freak?
In April 2024, Tinashe launched a new album era with lead single “Nasty.”
Suddenly the song was viral.
“Who are 2 people that actually did match each others freak?
The prompt garnered more than 230 million views in a few days.
“It’s so exciting,” Tinashe toldTime.
“This is what you wait and hope for.”
She insisted that she’s at peace with her level of career success.
Still, though, she’s excited by all the new attention.
