I was eight and my father was rehearsing to sing 'I Wanna Thank You God' the next day. 'The first time I went to my grandmother's church it was the night before Easter. Mya has subsequently appeared on BET's 'Teen Summit' and has taught dance to children ever since she herself was 14: '1 teach them there's no limit to their dreams.' She's also taken violin lessons since the fourth grade, and has begun to learn to play the drums. She earned a reputation for improvisation and an impressed Glover gave her a solo spot during a Kennedy Center performance. She went solo before heading to New York to study with Glover in a residency with the famed Dance Theater of Harlem. She studied tapes of Savion Glover, the tap dance prodigy now best-known for the Broadway hit Bring In Da Noise, Bring In D Funk, until she learned his routines and then joined the group T.W.A. At 12, she found herself watching videos of her dancing and her desire suddenly rekindled. She started ballet classes immediately, then tap and jazz, but lost interest when she was eight. Born in Washington, DC, Mya (she says she was named for Maya Angelou) was two years old when her father stood her in the Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial-and she danced. Yet it was dancing, not singing, which encouraged Mya to bloom. She'll also be heard on 'Ghetto Superstar' with Fugees' Wyclef and Pras, and Old Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang Clan on the soundtrack to Bulworth, starring Warren Beatty and Halle Berry. The executive producer for the album is A. The much-acclaimed Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds and Diane Warren co-wrote 'My First Night with You.' Mya wrote and co-produced 'What Cha Say,' and co-wrote 'Bye Bye' featuring Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott and 'We Goin' Make You Dance,' the latter with Dru Hill's Mokio (who wrote 'If You Died I Wouldn't Cry Cause You Never Loved Me Anyway' with Raphael Brown, who penned 'In My Bed' for Dru Hill). 'It's All About Me,' featuring Sisqo, singer form the multiplatinum University Music Entertainment labelmate Dru Hill, was co-written by him and producer Darryl Pearson (the multiplatinum producer for the Love Jones soundtrack and R&B group Jodeci). The album's about taking control, saying goodbye and moving on when you're down. The smooth R&B grooves of Mya recorded in New York, Philadelphia, and Atlanta are 'about relationships,' she says, 'being young, throwing parties, getting hurt for the first time, losing your virginity, hating someone for leaving because it hurts so much, about all the things you go through for the first time when you're my age-or the second time or third time as you grow up. On her self-titled debut album on University Music Entertainment/Interscope Records, and its first single and video, 'It's All About Me,' Mya is both the girl who wants and the girl who gets-a role model for an entire generation. Then I let it all out and I can do anything.' I learn a lot from just listening and watching. 'I really like to shock people with what I can do. 'I'm a totally different person,' says Mya. But when 19-year-old Mya Harrison steps on stage or behind a microphone or even when she auditioned two years ago in her own living room to earn her recording contract, she doesn't just blossom, she ignites. She's the shy girl you least expect to be the center of attention.

She's the mysterious teenager whose eyes warn of a fiery determination deep inside. She's the pretty but quiet girl in school who sits in the back of the class and rarely raises her hand.

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