Tiny Harris

Birth Name:

Tameka Cottle-Pope

Birth Place:

College Park, Georgia, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Actress, Producer

With Xscape, she won two Soul Train Music Awards for Best New R&B Artist and Best R&B Album as well as an A-Town Music Award for Best Duo/Group
Won an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award in the R&B and Pop Music categories for her work on "No Scrubs․"
Began dating Atlanta-based rapper T․I․ in 2001 and eventually married him nine years later
Her father and uncle, Charles and Joseph Pope, formed the R&B group The Tams in 1960
Joined the all-female R&B group Xscape in 1992 while still in high school
Signed with So So Def Recordings after being discovered by producer Jermaine Dupri at a Martin Luther King, Jr․ birthday celebration in Atlanta
As a member of Xscape, she would go on to produce three platinum albums before the group parted ways in 1998
Earned the nickname "Tiny" because she is only 4'11" tall
With former Xscape bandmate Kandi Burruss, she contributed writing to the hit TLC song "No Scrubs" in 1999
Starred in the BET reality TV series "Tiny and Toya" in 2009 and the VH1 series "T․I․ & Tiny: The Family Hustle" in 2011

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