Asiahn Bryant (previously Asia Bryant and born November 24, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter from

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and

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record labels. Since 2021, alongside her music, she provides vocal performances for Karma Grant in the Ludacris-created

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streaming musical series, ''

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''.

Early life

Asiahn Bryant was born in

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as a baby. She used music as an outlet while dealing with the divorce of her parents and the death of her brother. Bryant is openly lesbian.

Musical career

In the early stages of Asiahn Bryant's music career, she met Craig King who took her under his wing worked on her artistic development with A&R James Bennett. She started touring a few years later and opened up for

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, T.I.,

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, and

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. In 2010 and 2011, she featured on background vocals for

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' '' Q: Soul Bossa Nostra'' and

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's '' PL3DGE''. In 2011, Asiahn Bryant began her mainstream musical career by signing a publishing deal with

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, and releasing her debut

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(EP) album ''Analog Girl X Digital World'' on June 7 that year under the

record label. In 2013, she was a co-songwriter on "Hands in the Air", a song by

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from her album ''

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''. In 2014, she co-wrote the "

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" and "

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" singles for Jennifer Lopez. In 2015, Asiahn Bryant worked with The Game and was featured on the latter's albums ''

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'' and ''

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''. She contributed vocal performances on ''

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'', an album by Ludacris. In 2016, she worked on two

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musical drama TV series, first collaborating with

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as a co-writer on a

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for the second season of ''

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'', then co-writing songs for ''

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'' the following year. In 2017, Bryant released her second EP ''Love Train'' produced by

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. Both continued to work together on the sequel ''Love Train 2'', which was released in 2019. On 11 January 2021, Asiahn released ''The Interlude EP'' distributed by

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and

, which featured guest appearances from Grandmaster Vic and Jordan Hawkins. Following the release of the EP, she debuted at on the ''

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'' Emerging Artists Spotlight. On March 18, she released a live version of the EP with orchestral performances of each song.

Non-musical career

From mid-2021, alongside her music, she was cast as and began providing vocal performances for Karma Grant in a Netflix

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musical series, ''

'', created by Ludacris (who himself provides the voice of her dad in the series). Both worked on a song which is featured on its official

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, whiles Asiahn alone worked on the rest of the entries of that album, including the

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which has its own music video released on

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. The ''Karma's World'' soundtrack album is currently the only album Asiahn features in, either as the lead or back-up, not released by either

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Soundtrack album

Singles

As lead artist

Guest appearances

Writing discography

References

External links

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