Tata Young

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Tata was born Amita Marie Young (Thai: อมิตา มารี ยัง) in Thailand on December 14th, 1980. She is the only daughter of an American father and a Thai mother. At the age of 11, Tata beat over 5000 other young children to be crowned winner of the International Division of the nationwide Thailand Junior Singing Contest by belting her rendition of "One Night Only".

The victory earned her an entertainer's contract with Yamaha in preparation for her impending debut in show business. Within a short year, Tata had recorded and released her debut Thai-language album "Amita Tata Young" which shot to the top of the charts and sold more than a million copies. Almost overnight and at the tender age of 15 - Tata became the biggest pop sensation in Thailand.

Following her rapid successes in Southeast Asia, Tata Young turned her attention to Japan, a nation with a difficult music industry to crack. Tata's hit single "Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy", however, was played on every radio station and climbed to the top of the Zip FM charts and made it to the top ten of the Oregon Charts, one of the most highly-regarded music charts in Japan. Her music video was played every ten minutes on the big screens in Shibuya, a popular teenage hang-out in Japan. Her album sold 300,000 copies in Japan (an astonishing record for an international album) and nearly 1 million units across the Asian region.