INAYA’s first audience was in church as a child in Brooklyn, New York.
She attended the prestigious La Guardia High School of Music & the Performing Arts (the “Fame” School ) and studied solo voice at the University Of Bridgeport.
INAYA has been a musical theater Artist since the age of 12 and has done Broadway, off Broadway, Euro Theater, etc. She’s a card-carrying member of the Actor’s Equity Association.
INAYA was living in Germany when her first, second, and third house music singles, (KEEP PUSHIN, HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH, and HORNY), were released.
They each championed the charts and are now all worldwide classics.
INAYA has been named one of Billboard’s Greatest of All Time
Top Dance Club Artists and has had numerous UK/Euro, Aria,
and Billboard top tens, including the 3 songs named above, "NASTY GIRL", "FEEL IT", “I AM THA 1”, “GLAMOROUS LIFE”, “MOVIN UP”, “ONE NIGHT IN HEAVEN”, and many many more...
Just before the end of it’s run, INAYA was the ONLY artist in history to perform twice in one week on the famed UK top 40 TV show, TOP OF THE POPS.
In addition to house music, INAYA writes, records, and performs gospel.
She led / recorded a song with the Newark New Jersey Youth Choir, she’s sung /
recorded with CD Hawkins, performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall with Shirley Ceasar, Kurt Carr, Richard Smallwood, etc.
She does musical theater, jazz, commercial jingles, hip-hop, funk, and R&B; (Michael Jackson, P-Diddy, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, Bootsy Collins, Ashford & Simpson, Oprah Winfrey theme song, etc).
INAYA’s song KEEP PUSHIN was recently re-recorded by pop star, DUA LIPA as
the theme song for the ADIDAS: “Original Is Never Finished” campaign and one of her R&B ballads, “HOW MANY WAYS” was just played on the American drama, QUEEN SUGAR.
Her single, NASTY GIRL, was featured during the dance scene in the movie, “Dan In Real Life” starring Steve Carell and her songs can be heard on many
other TV shows (QUEER AS FOLK, QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY,
NEIGHBORS, etc) and commercial spots around the globe.
INAYA does it all. She’s a label owner, publisher, songwriter, bandleader, producer and even made a foray into film when she acted and sang in a movie called, "WHO SHOT PAT?" starring SANDRA BULLOCK.
Besides working through her own label, INAYA has music signed to SONY, WEA, Strictly Rhythm, OneLove, ToolRoom, Subliminal, Defected, Vicious,
Hed Kandi, Nervous, Tommy Boy, and more.
Keep an eye and an ear out! That voice is everywhere!