TiaCorine

Tia Shults was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to a Shoshone mother and a Japanese-African American father. In the fourth grade, Shults began performing at local talent shows and started taking flute and piano lessons. She attended Winston-Salem State University and graduated with a degree in exercise physiology, originally planning to become a physician assistant. While in college, she worked as a shift manager at Bojangles. In 2017, she released her first major single, "Cabbage" with OG Spliff.