Tatyana Ali: I'm very, very good at time management. That's been a real big benefit.
Tatyana Ali: I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me. (Talking about her future)
Tatyana Ali: I was only eleven when we filmed the pilot. I didn't really expect anything to come out of it. I mean, the idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of. (On the Fresh Prince of Bel Air).
Tatyana Ali: I found it challenging, but a lot like I expected. A lot of independent study. It was weird at first because I think everyone thought maybe that I thought I was some sort of diva. It took a couple weeks before anyone got the nerve to talk to me and word got around that I was normal. I used to get stopped for little interviews and starting meeting people. (On going to Harvard)
Tatyana Ali: I always want to entertain people and sing and dance.
Tatyana Ali: After that episode, I would meet people on the street and they'd ask me 'When is your album coming out?' This was before I'd even thought about pursuing a record deal (After her singing performances on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Nickname Ty
Tayana's singing carrier orginated when she would sing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in some episodes.
Tatyana's song Boy, You Knock Me Out is a song done with Will Smith, in which they worked together on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
She appeared on Nick Cannon's music video "Can I Live." She played Nick's mother, as she decided if she was going to have an abortion.
Met boyfriend, Johnathan Brandis (seaQuest DSV) at a friend's Halloween party. They went to Paris, France after she turned 18 years old.
Graduated Harvard University.
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