Mýa

Mýa is one of those artists people underrate by filing her simply as a singer. What I respect is the full toolkit: she sings, writes, dances, and choreographs, with childhood training in ballet, jazz, and tap that shows in everything she does. Coming up through BET's Teen Summit as a dancer before her 1998 debut tells me she earned her foundation the hard way. I am drawn to performers who can carry both the vocal and the physical sides of a show themselves, because that self-sufficiency is rare and persuasive. Recognition at a film festival only confirms how deep her range runs.

Name (English)

Mýa

Name (Japanese)

マイア

Reading

まいあ

Born

October 10, 1979 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Goat

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / songwriter / dancer / choreographer

High school

Eleanor Roosevelt High School

University

University of Maryland

Awards & achievements

• Palm Beach International Film Festival
• Washington Area Music Association

• Official sitehttps://www.MyaMya.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/andy.168.8/
• Xhttps://x.com/missmya
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya%20(singer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%20(%E6%AD%8C%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233736

Tags

• singer
• singer-songwriter
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.