Doja Cat born Amalaratna Zandile Dlamini on the 21st of October 1995 is a US rapper, singer and songwriter who rose to fame with her bizarre hit sing, “Mooo” which had a viral dance challenge.

She has had other hit songs like “Say So” and “Juicy” where she featured major artists such as Nicki Minaj and Tyga respectively. Like most artists nowadays, Doja Cat started her music career on Soundcloud but ended up signing with major recording label, RCA Records.

She has released 2 studio albums, “Amala” and “Hot Pink” with the recording label and released her hit song “Say So” on the second album and did a remix of the song with Nicki Minaj as I mentioned above.

 

Doja Cat was born in Los Angeles, California, USA to South African dad, Dumisani Dlamini and American mother, Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer.

Doja Cat’s dad, Dumisani Dlamini is a South African singer, producer and actor. He starred in a lot of popular SA shows back in the days such as “Yizo Yizo”, “Stander”, “Operation Delta Force” and “Drum”. He has also in one of South Africa’s major film back in the 1990’s, “Sarafina”. Dumisani met Doja Cat’s mother while he was residing in the US and they had 2 children together.

 

Unfortunately, the 4 couldn’t be one big happy family as Dumisani left them in the US and claims that he left them in the there because he wanted to return to South Africa as he was homesick. This, however wasn’t his intention as he also claims that he wanted to come back with them but it didn’t work out.

Dumisani seems to be very proud of Doja Cat as he commented on some of Doja Cat’s social media posts and even talked about her on an interview he had with “TshisaLive”.

This is what Dumisani had to say in the interview, “Beautiful girl [who goes by] the name Doja Cat, she’s singing with Nicki Minaj. If you google you will see, it’s D. O. J. A. C. A. T, she’s one of the best singers now in America. That’s my daughter.”

However, some social media users attacked Dumisani for being a deadbeat dad and not being part of Doja Cat’s life but having the audacity to want to praise her and celebrate her as his daughter.

On the otherhand, Doja Cat doesn’t mind this at all and even claims that she got her singing and dancing talent from him. However, she’s finds it a bit weird that Dumisani chooses to actively comment on her social media posts.

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