Shaddaii Harris

Shaddaii Charly'mayne Harris was born in Lubbock, Texas. She's Nigerian and Asian. Harris was born in an economically impoverished neighborhood and raised by a single mother. Shaddaii, (Shaddah) had a name people often struggled to pronounce. Growing up, Harris often refrained from watching television, instead would read, and write. Due to love for music, books, writing and reading, at an early age, her mother enrolled her in magnet schools, and she participated in theatre, ballet, tap, jazz, played the violin, and piano. During high school she enrolled in theatre classes, analyzed music, and wrote poems often. She felt music, journaling, and theatre arts were her escapes, and ways to express her thoughts, opinions, ideas, and emotions. Her teachers often said she had a gift of writing, and encouraged her to take up journalism in college. Harris began her stardom as a UNT college student when appeared on American Idol XIII, not knowing her performance would be broadcasted. She was la