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Tatyana Ali

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92 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

And then one by one, they just started picking us off like this kid's crying.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

This kid fell.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

This kid.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

And then you have to hold the line.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

And it's like a young man now.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

Exactly.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

Was it on the, it was the display car in the dealership, right?

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

You walked in and saw sitting there.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

Not the literal U.S.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

landmark that most likely has very expensive parking, but the pop culture exercise of picking any specific category's top four of all time.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

Entry into the Mount Rushmore of your field who forever cement your legacy as one of the GOATs.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

One viral variation has participants ranking their Disney Channel greats, trading around names like Miley Cyrus, Raven-SymonΓ©, Hilary Duff, and the dog with a blog.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

Well, if you're interested in constructing a Mount Rushmore for the coolest people to come out of the 90s, our guest this week might just get the whole side of a mountain.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

She began her career in the coolest neighborhood possible, Sesame Street, playing amongst Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

One of her more memorable appearances was alongside Herbie Hancock, who took a sample of her voice and ran it through his legendary synthesizer to show off a brand new technology in music.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

Then she made her way over to Star Search, covering Marvin Gaye and scoring a four-star rating at just seven years old.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

But her breakthrough came in 1990 when she was cast by Quincy Jones in a television show he was producing for a rapper he thought could easily transition into family TV.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

And since that show was the legendary Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, that rapper was Will Smith, an entire generation would come to know and love her as the spoiled brat with a big heart, Ashley Banks.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

Oh yeah, she also became a pop and R&B star with a certified gold album, Kiss the Sky, released on Michael Jackson's record label in 1999.

Pod Meets World
Tatyana Ali Meets World

And somehow, she did all of this while also graduating from Harvard.