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Tiffany Scott is a very talented and gifted, young African American female, born and raised in Atlanta, GA on January 16, 1979 (along with other great entertainers like Aaliyah, Debbie Allen and Sade). She comes from a long line of talented dancers and musicians that have written for the likes of Motown Records, Stevie Wonder, Peabo Bryson and more. Tiffany is an avid musician, taking early interest in the piano at the age of three. By the time she was six, she learned that she ad the gift to “play by ear”. She would listen to the radio and run to her keyboard to play what she had heard. Her first attempt at this plight was with the famous rap classic “I Need Love” released in 1986 by Hip-Hop pioneer L.L. Cool J. She found every chord and every melody with ease. Gaining confidence in her newly found gift, she composed her first instrumental during that same year, consisting of four-fingered chords and a bass line in the left hand. By the time Tiffany was ten, she had taken a few years of basic piano theory and had joined the choir at the church that she attended. By the time Tiffany was fifteen, she had directed the youth choir during church services, helped with teaching choir parts and voices, lead songs and written quite a few of her own at home. At this age, she had also auditioned for and was admitted into the Tri-Cities High School Visual and Performing Arts program in East Point, GA. Several national recording artists and actors have come out of this very program (i.e. Xspace, Jagged Edge, Outkast, Keenen Thompson, D. Woods and more). She was blessed to have shared lessons and experiences with these individuals and later grew to dominate the entire performing arts program in the areas of dance, drama, musical theater, creative writing, and of course, classical and jazz piano. During her time there, she was fortunate to have performed in huge productions like The Wiz, Once On This Island and even performed the thunder musical Dream Girls twelve times (the show was so good that the Atlanta community requested an encore). As a senior at Tri-Cities High School, Tiffany exited the stage with several impressive awards and achievements. She won the VPA Performing Arts Student of the Year award, Coke-A-Cola’s Best Female Performing Arts in the Atlanta Metro Area, a member of the Tri-M Music Honors Society, the National Honors Society, an elected member into both editions of “Who’s Who” in America’s and the World’s High School Students and placed in multiple N.A.A.C.P. Act-So competitions that sent her to the N.A.A.C.P. Act-So Nationals. She was first runner-up in the Black Georgia Talented-Teen Beauty Pageant and won several scholarships from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, The Gus Thornhill Foundation, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and a full academic scholarship to Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.
As her story continues, Rollins College gave her another plethora of opportunities that would never go unnoticed. Rollins was a whole new world with more cultural, economical and stereo-typical competition. She was among a small population of upper class citizens that consisted of 90% Caucasian students, 8 % of Hispanic and students from overseas and only approximately 2% African American students. This experience not only caused her to stand up against the stereo-types and raise the bar for African Americans on campus but she had the biggest task of all, learning herself. She knew that she was a very intellectual, multi-talented girl in the past, but who was she now, as a woman? Who was she growing into? During her times of impersonating Janet Jackson and dancing live on TV at B.E.T. Soundstage, she took the time to discover the fabric of her being. She empathizes with those who have gone before her and established themselves in the entertainment industry, but without first knowing who there were as individuals. Tiffany did not to get her break into the industry and still question herself as a person and her ability to deliver the performing artist that her fans would want to see from her every time they saw her on stage. At Rollins, she became a whole person. Someone that understands what it means to be happy with the simple things in life like unconditional love from family, special holidays and good friends. Tiffany exited the stage at Rollins with degrees in Theatre Arts, Dance and Computer Science, all in four years. She also left the campus as the first undergraduate member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and with honors including but not limited to: The Dean’s List, the president of the Black Student Union, Theta Alpha Phi Theatre Honors Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honors Society and honors from the President of the college for producing a short EP with four songs about equality and racism that sold-out campus wide.
Now, Tiffany is back in Atlanta and she has been under the radar, but for a reason. She has taken the time out to write, produce and record a full album that she is more than ready to move forward with. It represents who she is as a person, a musician and an artist. All of her lessons in life have afforded her many songs with powerful messages that even a child can relate to. She also took the time to sharpen her hip hop dance skills to be able to compete with other professional dancers in the market. She currently teaches hip hop classes for several locations of LA Fitness and does workshops for different high schools. She has not been doing these things to pay the bills, but to keep knowledge of what’s hot on the market and to keep her image marketable and stylish. As we know, in the entertainment industry, image is everything! Tiffany is like a tiger in a crouched position waiting to pounce full force into the industry, making the world say “Wow! Where did she come from?” Needless to say, she has set herself up for just that! She’s just started her own entertainment company this year called Pryme Meridian Entertainment, L.L.C. www.PrymeMeridian.com
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