Jamia Simone Nash

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Jamia Simone Nash
Born	August 21, 1996 (1996-08-21) (age 11) Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.

Jamia Simone Nash (born August 21, 1996) is an American child singer and actress. She has sometimes been billed as just Jamia.

Nash was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She began singing at the age of two; her first national appearance was on Showtime at the Apollo in 2002, where she sang the Alicia Keys song "Fallin'". She performed at the 2003 Essence Awards, singing Michael Jackson's "Who's Lovin You" honoring Mary J Blige. She and her younger sister Olivia sing the hook in the song "Black Girl Pain" on Talib Kweli's 2004 album The Beautiful Struggle; she also sings in the hook for "U, Black, Maybe" on Common's 2007 album Finding Forever.

She played a ten-year-old Fantasia Barrino in the 2006 Lifetime Original Movie Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story, a biopic about the 2004 American Idol winner.

In the 2007 film August Rush, Nash's character Hope is the lead vocalist on the song "Raise It Up", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Nash performed the song, "Raise It Up" from the film August Rush, live at the 2008 Academy Awards. Also at the Academy Awards, she was shown on stage playing tennis via Wii Sports with the host Jon Stewart, until he noticed the crowd behind her and she ran off stage.

Billed as MC Lily, Nash sang about the alphabet on Nick Jr. Her song "Bongo Bird" was featured as a video on the Noggin series Jack's Big Music Show. She provides the singing voice for the character Uniqua on The Backyardigans. She has also acted in episodes of 7th Heaven, Romeo!, My Wife and Kids, and appeared as herself on The Tony Danza Show, Half & Half and Big Time. Jamia is a resident of Buford, Georgia. She attends Frank N. Osborne Middle School in Hoschton, Georgia.