Born and raised in Los Angeles , California , she began making and releasing music on SoundCloud as a teenager. Her song " So High " caught the attention of Kemosabe and RCA Records , with whom she signed a recording contract prior to the release of her debut extended play, Purrr!
After a hiatus from releasing music and the uneventful rollout of her debut studio album, Amala , Doja Cat earned viral success as an internet meme with her single " Mooo! Capitalizing on her growing popularity, she released her second studio album, Hot Pink , in the following year. Her fourth studio album, Scarlet , adopted a hip-hop -oriented sound and peaked within the top five of the Billboard , while its lead single " Paint the Town Red " became her most successful song to date, as it marked her first solo number-one on the Hot among eight other countries.
Described by The Wall Street Journal as "a skilled technical rapper with a strong melodic sense and a bold visual presence", [ 1 ] Doja Cat is known for creating videos and performances which achieve virality on social media platforms such as TikTok. Well-versed in Internet culture, she is also famed for her absurdist online personality and stage presence.
She is one of the biggest commercial artists of the s according to Billboard , [ 6 ] and was included on the most influential people in the world by Time in Soon after her birth, Dlamini moved from Tarzana to Rye, New York , where she lived for five years with her maternal grandmother, an architect and painter. Her family then moved to Oak Park , [ 12 ] where she started attending dance lessons and experienced a "sporty childhood", often skateboarding and visiting Malibu for surf camps.
As she grew older and moved away from the ashram, she attended breakdancing classes and joined a professional poplocking troupe, with whom she competed in dance battles throughout Los Angeles while still attending high school.
