Dinah Jane Informations

Dinah Jane Milika Ilaisaane Hansen (/ˈdaɪnə/; born June 22, 1997) is an American singer. She is a former member of the girl group Fifth Harmony. Jane signed as a solo artist with L.A. Reid's HitCo Entertainment. In October 2017, she featured in RedOne's single "Boom Boom" with Daddy Yankee and French Montana. Her debut solo single "Bottled Up" featuring Ty Dolla Sign and Marc E. Bassy was released on September 21, 2018, followed by her debut extended play, Dinah Jane 1, in early 2019.

Dinah Jane grew up in Santa Ana, California and is the daughter of Gorden Hansen and Milika Amasio. She is the eldest of 7 children and grew up in a 4-bedroom-house along with 23 other people. Jane also has an older sister who is an adopted cousin. Hansen is predominantly of Tongan descent with Samoan, Fijian and Danish admixture. Jane is Mormon.

Raised in a musical family, Jane performed in public for the first time while singing the national anthem at the age of seven. She attended Orange County School of the Arts and graduated in 2015. She has cited artists Patti LaBelle, Beyoncé, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey and Etta James among her musical influences.

In 2011, she recorded her first single "Dancing Like a White Girl". Hansen auditioned for The X Factor in 2012 singing "If I Were a Boy" by Beyoncé. For her bootcamp solo performance she sang "Hero" by Mariah Carey and is the only member from Fifth Harmony to have it aired. She sang against Diamond White for her bootcamp round singing "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" during which she forgot some of the lyrics. She was eliminated during the bootcamp round of competition, but was brought back along with Ally Brooke, Normani, Lauren Jauregui, and Camila Cabello to form the group now known as Fifth Harmony. The group made it all the way to the finals and landed in third place.

Fifth Harmony released their debut EP, Better Together in 2013, their first album Reflection in January 2015, and their second album 7/27 in May 2016. Their first two albums generated the singles "Worth It" and "Work from Home", respectively, which reached the top 10 in several international charts. The group also contributed music to the soundtrack of the animated film Hotel Transylvania 2 with their song "I'm in Love with a Monster". They released their third self-titled third studio album, and first as a four member group on August 25, 2017. On March 19, 2018, the group announced an indefinite hiatus to focus on solo projects.

In 2015, Hansen auditioned for the role of the main character in the then-upcoming animated film Moana; the role eventually went to Auliʻi Cravalho.Fuse's website included Hansen on an article of the faces of future Asian and Pacific history, naming the most promising entertainers of the region in 2017. She was featured in RedOne's song "Boom Boom" along with Daddy Yankee and French Montana. She sang the Tongan national anthem "Ko e fasi 'o e tu'i 'o e 'Otu Tonga" on November 24, 2017 at the 2017 Rugby League World Cup semi-final game. Hansen released a Christmas medley with singer Leona Lewis. Hansen collaborated with Ty Dolla Sign and Marc E. Bassy for her debut solo single "Bottled Up", which was released with its accompanying lyric video on September 21, 2018. She performed the single on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Jane performed two new songs "Retrograde" and "I Don't Mind" at the Jingle Bash on December 3, 2018. On March 26, 2019, Jane released the music video to her then-unreleased song "Retrograde". On March 28, she announced a music project that will be released on April 19, 2019, later revealed to be her debut solo extended play, Dinah Jane 1. Jane released a song titled "Heard It All Before", followed by its music video, as the EP's lead single on April 19, 2019. In May and July 2019 respectively, Jane released two further singles: "Retrograde" (the studio version was released in May, following the music video in March) and "SZNS" featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie.

Jane has described her music as "urban RandB ... meets '90s to 2000s". Her musical influences are Beyoncé, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey and Etta James.

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