Tatyana Ali
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Podcast Appearances
And then one by one, they just started picking us off like this kid's crying.
And then you have to hold the line.
And it's like a young man now.
Was it on the, it was the display car in the dealership, right?
You walked in and saw sitting there.
landmark that most likely has very expensive parking, but the pop culture exercise of picking any specific category's top four of all time.
Entry into the Mount Rushmore of your field who forever cement your legacy as one of the GOATs.
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.
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.
She began her career in the coolest neighborhood possible, Sesame Street, playing amongst Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
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.
Then she made her way over to Star Search, covering Marvin Gaye and scoring a four-star rating at just seven years old.
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.
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.
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.
And somehow, she did all of this while also graduating from Harvard.