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Tifanii Songbird



Last Updated: 8/31/2009

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Status: Single
City: Virginia Beach
State: Virginia
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/26/2007
March 20, 2008 - Thursday 

Category: Music


"Tifanii" beat out about 800 contestants locally to win a spot on Diddy’s create-a-girl-group MTV reality show, ’’Making the Band 3". ’The hip-hop impresario knows her as Tiffany, one of the singers struggling to become a star on his create-a-girl-group MTV reality show, Making the Band 3.  "My name is Tiffany, and I’m 21", the young woman said on the series premiere, introducing herself to the Beyonce wannabes who would share a trendy New York City loft and a life of limos, clubs and show biz. "I like singing and having fun and I’m from Virginia Beach, Virginia". Trouble is, she isn’t any of those things. Well, except for the part about singing and her residence.  She is Davrielle Smith (pronounced Dah-vree-el), a Chesapeake resident who has performed for years at local fairs and festivals as Lil Dee Dee.  And she is Lil, or at least a lot littler than the rest of Diddy’s pretties.
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At the time, she was a sophomore at Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, VA and only 15. Davrielle  skipped school to crash auditions at an Oceanfront nightspot.  She used a cousin’s fake ID to get around the 18-and-older age limit, which forced her to adopt her cousin Tiffany’s name which has since been changed in spelling to Tifanii.
When she aced the audition, she mustered up a whole lot of moxie for a six-week whirl in Diddy’s world. "I felt like I was just in a movie, playing a part", Davrielle said in an interview at her family’s Chesapeake townhouse. I just wanted to get in front of Diddy, to show him what I can do, to prove to him that age is just a number.
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Diddy is no stranger to reinvention.  Born Sean Combs, he has called himself Puffy Combs, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and now just plain Diddy. "I wasn’t using my own name or my own age", said Davrielle, but everything else was all me.  Davrielle states, "The voice, the dancing, that was all me." 
Here’s how the unreal world of reality television works: Davrielle aka Tiffany/Tifanii and her housemates lived for about six weeks in the loft, working daily with Diddy’s crew on singing, dancing and that looking-good-for-video thing.
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Since then, Tifanii emerged on the scene as an Total Entertainment Industry Package acing the abilities to sing, dance, model, act and write her own music. With the soulful sound of a seasoned songstress, this young lady has performed many places and amongst some of the greats, young & old such as: Vivica Fox, Clifton Davis, Clipse, Monique, Chris Brown and starred in a Towonda Kilpatrick’s theatrical play "Mama I’m Your Child" with Thelma (from Good Times) Howard Hewitt, Sammie and Dave Hollister.
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Tifanii will surprise the music industry just like she did her opponents from Making the Band and  viewers across the country and world.