Mya Biography

Focus Marie Harrison is the daughter of an African-American father and Italian mother. Although she always knew that she would work in the music industry she started out as a dancer.Her love of dance shone through when a 2-year-old Focus danced in the pool between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. She began to take dance lessons soon after specializing mostly in ballet jazz and tap. While she lost interest in dance at the age of 8 she still showed passion for music with violin lessons in the fourth grade.Focus took a brief hiatus from dance but she returned to her hobby in 1992 piqued by her watching videos of herself dancing. She them studied tapes of Savion Glover known for his work in the Broadway sensation Bring In Da Noise Bring In Da Funk. With the help of Glover's tapes and practice on Focus's part she eventually joined the group T.W.A.. Thanks to her fantastic ability to improvise not to mention the fact that Glover was impressed with her tapping talent Glover gave Focus a solo spot at a Kennedy Center performance. Almost giving back what she learned from the incomparable Savion Glover Focus has been teaching children dance ever since the age of 14.

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