Asiahn

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Asiahn
Birth nameAsiahn Bryant
Also known asAsia Bryant / Asia
Born (1987-11-24) November 24, 1987 (age 37)
Paterson, New Jersey
Origin Charleston, South Carolina
Genres Alternative R&B
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Voice actress [1] [2] [3]
Instrument(s)Vocals, piano, guitar, bass guitar
Years active2010–present
Labels
[4]

Asiahn Bryant (previously Asia Bryant [5] [6] [7] and born November 24, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and voice actress from Paterson, New Jersey, currently signed to the SinceThe80s and Motown record labels. [8] Since 2021, alongside her music, she provides vocal performances for Karma Grant in the Ludacris-created Netflix streaming musical series, Karma's World . [1] [9]

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Early life

Asiahn Bryant was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and moved with her family to Charlotte, North Carolina as a baby. She used music as an outlet while dealing with the divorce of her parents and the death of her brother. Where she later relocated to Hanahan, South Carolina with her mother and sister. She attended Hanahan high school where she was a cheerleader. She would spend most of her free time, traveling back-and-forth to Atlanta to work on her talents. [10] Bryant is openly lesbian. [11]

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 Ludacris, T.I., Kanye West, and Erykah Badu. [5] In 2010 and 2011, she featured on background vocals for Quincy Jones' Q: Soul Bossa Nostra and Killer Mike's PL3DGE . [6] In 2011, Asiahn Bryant began her mainstream musical career by signing a publishing deal with Universal Music Group, and releasing her debut extended play (EP) album Analog Girl X Digital World on June 7 that year under the Motown record label. [7]

In 2013, she was a co-songwriter on "Hands in the Air", a song by Miley Cyrus from her album Bangerz . In 2014, she co-wrote the "Booty" and "Girls" singles for Jennifer Lopez. In 2015, Asiahn Bryant worked with The Game and was featured on the latter's albums Compton and The Documentary 2.5, and was featured in the soundtrack for the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton. She contributed vocal performances on Ludaversal , an album by Ludacris. [12] In 2016, she worked on two Fox musical drama TV series, first collaborating with Ne-Yo as a co-writer on a soundtrack for the second season of Empire , then co-writing songs for Star the following year. [10]

In 2017, Bryant released her second EP Love Train produced by Cardiak. 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 SinceThe80s and Motown, which featured guest appearances from Grandmaster Vic and Jordan Hawkins. Following the release of the EP, she debuted at on the Billboard Emerging Artists Spotlight. [13] On March 18, she released a live version of the EP with orchestral performances of each song. [14]

Non-musical career

From mid-2021, alongside her music, she was cast as and began providing vocal performances for Karma Grant in a Netflix animated musical series, Karma's World , created by Ludacris (who himself provides the voice of her dad in the series). [1] [15] [9] [2] Both worked on a song which is featured on its official soundtrack album, whiles Asiahn alone worked on the rest of the entries of that album, including the theme song which has its own music video released on YouTube. [16] 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 SinceThe80s or Motown. [4]

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetails
Love Train 2
  • Released: January 11, 2019 [17]
  • Label: SinceThe80s
  • Format: Digital download

Extended plays

TitleDetails
Analog Girl X Digital World
Love Train
  • Released: January 7, 2017 [18]
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: Digital download
The Interlude
  • Released: January 11, 2021
  • Label: SinceThe80s, Motown
  • Format: Digital download
The Interlude (Orchestral Performance)
  • Released: March 18, 2021
  • Label: SinceThe80s, Motown
  • Format: Digital download

Soundtrack album

AlbumRelease dateOther artist(s)TypeRelease format(s)
Karma's World (Official Soundtrack Album)15 October 2021Ramone Hilton, Ludacris (1 song each; as collaboration) Soundtrack album Digital download; Streaming music; Music download

Singles

As lead artist

TitleYearAlbum
"Stranger" [19] 2017Non-album single
"NOLA" [20] 2018Love Train 2
"Like You" [21]
"Gucci Frames" [22] 2020The Interlude
"Get Away" [23]
"OMW" [24] 2021TBA

Guest appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
TitleYearOther artist(s)Album
"Earline's Son"2011Playboy Tre—
"Come With Me"2012 Dolla Boy —
"Just Another Day"2015 The Game Compton
"Gang Related"The Game The Documentary 2.5
"Invitation"2017 K Camp K.I.S.S. 4
"All I Want"2020—A Motown Holiday

Writing discography

List of non-performed songs as writer, showing performing artists, year released and album name
TitleYearArtistAlbum
"God in the Building II"2011 Killer Mike PL3DGE
"Hands in the Air"2013 Miley Cyrus, Ludacris Bangerz
"My Baby" Ai, Lloyd Moriagaro
"Booty" [25] 2014 Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull A.K.A.
"Booty (Remix)"Jennifer Lopez, Iggy Azalea
"Girls" [26] Jennifer Lopez
"Girls (Remix)"Jennifer Lopez, Tyga
"Shine on Me"2016 Jussie Smollett, Bre-Z Empire: Original Soundtrack Season 2 Volume 2
"Little Bird"2017 Star Cast —
"Imagination"—

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