Michele Sherman (born March 27, 1987) better known by her stage name Siya is an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn, New York City. In 2012, she signed with American R&B singer-songwriter Tank's R&B Money label imprint.[4] She starred in the Oxygen reality TV series Sisterhood of Hip Hop.[5][6] Siya has collaborated with artists such as Chris Brown and Sage the Gemini. Siya has performed alongside artists such as Wyclef Jean at the world famous B.B. Kings, as well as opened up for Fat Joe and Fabolous during a concert at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York.
Born in California to an African American father and a Puerto Rican mother,[7] Siya was sent to live with her grandmother, by her father, who raised her in the Eleanor Roosevelt housing projects in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[8][9] Siya began rapping at the age of seven. While in elementary school and throughout her high school years Siya entered contests and talent shows.
