INAYA DAY

INAYA's first audience was in church as a child in Brooklyn, New York.
She went on to attend the prestigious La Guardia High School of Music & the Performing Arts (the "Fame" School ), studied solo voice at the University Of Bridgeport, and graduated with high honors in Marketing at Southern New Hampshire University.

INAYA has been a musical theater Artist since the age of 13 and has done Broadway, off Broadway, regional theater, Euro Theater, etc. She's a card-carrying member of the Actor's Equity Association and a voting member of the Grammys Recording Academy.

INAYA was living in Germany when her first, second, and third singles, Keep Pushin', Hold Your Head Up High, and Horny (for which she garnered both gold and platinum records), were released. They each championed the charts and are now all worldwide classics.

   INAYA has been named one of Billboard's Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists, and has had numerous UK, Euro, Aria, and Billboard top tens, including the 3 songs named above, "Nasty Girl," "Feel It,", "I Am Tha 1," "Glamorous Life", "Movin' Up", "One Night In Heaven",
and many many more. One of her current singles, Feelin' Feelin' produced by Grammy award-winning producer Sting International, has topped the charts and is lauded by elite DJs worldwide.
INAYA also has chart-topping releases with Frankie Knuckles & Eric Kipper (Director's Cut),
Robin S, Harry ChooChoo Romero, etc - and looks forward to her upcoming releases with DJ Spen, Tedd Patterson, and her own secret project that she's been working on for almost 5 years.

   Just before the end of it's run, INAYA was the ONLY artist in history to perform on the famed UK top 40 TV show Top of the Pops twice in one week.

   In addition to house music, INAYA writes, records, and performs musical theater, jazz, jingles, hip-hop, funk, and R&B, and gospel. Her gospel roots were displayed when she led/recorded a song with the Newark New Jersey Youth Choir, sang/recorded with CD Hawkins, performed at New York's Carnegie Hall with Shirley Caesar, Yolanda Adams, Kurt Carr, Richard Smallwood, and more.

INAYA writes, creates/arranges, and sings backing vocals and/or hooks for the likes of Michael Jackson, P-Diddy, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, Bootsy Collins, Ultra Nate', Crystal Waters, Ashford & Simpson (Oprah Winfrey theme song), and more.

    INAYA's song Keep Pushin was recently re-recorded by pop star, Dua Lipa as the theme song for the Adidas promotional campaign: "Original Is Never Finished." One of her unreleased R&B ballads, "How Many Ways," can be heard on the American drama, Queen Sugar. Her single, Nasty Girl, was featured for the dance scene in the movie, "Dan In Real Life" starring Steve Carell. During the finale' season of the series Pose starring Billie Porter, one can hear INAYA's song Step It Up; both on the show, and the soundtrack. Her songs can be heard on many other TV shows (Queer As Folk, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Neighbors, HighTown, etc), and in ads around the globe. She even sang the theme song for "Everybody Hates Chris" with Tony award nominee Victor Cook and award winning actress Tichina Arnold; which INAYA engineered as they recorded the vocals in INAYA's home studio
    INAYA does it all. She's a label owner, publisher, songwriter, bandleader, producer, and even made a foray into film when she acted and sang in a movie called, "Who Shot Pat?" starring Sandra Bullock.

    Besides working her own label, INAYA has music signed to Sony, WEA, Strictly Rhythm, OneLove, ToolRoom, Subliminal, Defected, Vicious, Hed Kandi, Nervous, Tommy Boy, and more.

   
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