Amanda Diva

Born in LA, CA, on July 1, 1981, the multi-talented Amanda Seales spent the majority of her lifestyle in Orlando, FL, where she took various dance, music, and performing lessons. As an adolescent she made an appearance onscreen (including in Nickelodeon’s short-lived MY BUDDY and Me), but she still made a decision to research movie theater at a college or university, buying SUNY-Purchase. It had been in university, upon the recommendation of a pal, that she initial began to compose her very own spoken word function, and by 2002 she got made an appearance on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam. In 2004 her debut mixtape, It’s Larger Than Hip-Hop, Vol. 1, a combined mix of her rhymed and sung materials, hit the roads, and shortly Seales, who was simply contacting herself Amanda Diva, got prearranged a gig on MTV2 and Sirius Radio (where she hosted the daily Hip-Hop Country show), joined up with the DJ Dilemma/Don Cannon/DJ Sense-helmed Aphilliates staff, and released a reserve of poetry, aswell as attained her master’s level in African-American research from Columbia College or university. In 2007 she got over for the departed Natalie Stewart in Floetry’s tour, released the Mick Boogie mixtape Still Sucka Free of charge, Vol. 1, and in Dec of this same season, Amanda Diva released Lifestyle Experience, the to begin a well planned EP trilogy, with Like Knowledge and Live Knowledge set to check out.