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{{Infobox dancer | {{Infobox dancer | ||
|name = Tatiana McQuay | |name = Tatiana McQuay | ||
|image = File: | |image = File:Tati McQuay 2024.jpg | ||
|gender = Female | |gender = Female | ||
|age = | |age = {{age|2003|08|30}} | ||
|birthdate = August 30, 2003 | |birthdate = August 30, 2003 | ||
|nationality = Canadian | |nationality = Canadian | ||
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|eye color = Dark Brown | |eye color = Dark Brown | ||
|hair color = Black | |hair color = Black | ||
|profession = Dancer <br> Choreographer <br> Dance Teacher <br> Fitness Trainer <br> Singer <br> Actress <br> Model | |school grade = Class of 2025 | ||
|profession = Dancer <br> Choreographer <br> Dance Teacher <br> Fitness Trainer <br> Martial Artist <br> Singer <br> Actress <br> Model | |||
|affiliations = Manager Shanelle Gray <br> AKA Talent Agency <br> Bloc LA <br> The Osbrink Agency <br> L2M Girl Group <br> IT Singing Duo <br> 5150 Productions <br> ImmaBEAST Co. | |affiliations = Manager Shanelle Gray <br> AKA Talent Agency <br> Bloc LA <br> The Osbrink Agency <br> L2M Girl Group <br> IT Singing Duo <br> 5150 Productions <br> ImmaBEAST Co. | ||
|dance studios = Bojangles Dance Studio <br> IMMA Space (2017-present) | |dance studios = Bojangles Dance Studio <br> IMMA Space (2017-present) | ||
|titles = ''see below'' | |titles = ''see below'' | ||
|parents = Michelle De Maria McQuay (mother, fitness guru) <br> Stan McQuay (father, professional bodybuilder) <br> Janelle Ginestra | |parents = Michelle De Maria McQuay (mother, fitness guru, momanager) <br> Stan McQuay (father, professional bodybuilder) <br> Janelle Ginestra* (former Mama Beast) <br> William Adams* (former Papa Beast); * got divorced in 2022 | ||
|siblings = Kai Jaydon McQuay <br> Zen McQuay | |siblings = Kai Jaydon McQuay <br> Zen McQuay | ||
|friends = Lily Chee | |friends = Lily Chee <br> [[Tahani Anderson]] <br> [[Gabe De Guzman]] <br> [[Nia Frazier]] <br> [[Mackenzie Ziegler]] <br> [[Brooke Hyland]] <br> [[Paige Hyland]] <br> Sofie Dossi | ||
|pets = 1 dog (Rockit) | |pets = 1 dog (Rockit) | ||
|nicknames = Tati | |nicknames = Tati | ||
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She was modeling for C H I C K, Call It Spring, Elvn, Fashion Nova and GymShark. Of course, a lot of people have a crush on hot Tati and she likes it to feed them with tons of hot selfies. Especially Tati has changed a lot in the last years and people who remembered her by her teenager pictures should check her out on social media first. She was experiencing a little Mozart effect, because an huge part of her business was child or teenager acting and singing. - ''You had been such a cute, little, adorable protegé. What happened to you? - I'm just growing up. My only crime.'' - And the coronavirus shutdowns, lookdowns and quarantines didn't make it easier. | She was modeling for C H I C K, Call It Spring, Elvn, Fashion Nova and GymShark. Of course, a lot of people have a crush on hot Tati and she likes it to feed them with tons of hot selfies. Especially Tati has changed a lot in the last years and people who remembered her by her teenager pictures should check her out on social media first. She was experiencing a little Mozart effect, because an huge part of her business was child or teenager acting and singing. - ''You had been such a cute, little, adorable protegé. What happened to you? - I'm just growing up. My only crime.'' - And the coronavirus shutdowns, lookdowns and quarantines didn't make it easier. | ||
Tati got homescooled. She was in a regular school until seventh grade. When she wasn't in school for some reasons her teachers brought the homework on set (what a service). She finds homeschooling easier for her job, but somehow she missed regular, especially when she is watching her younger brothers. She was in her last, senior year in high school in 2021. | Tati got homescooled. She was in a regular school until seventh grade. When she wasn't in school for some reasons her teachers brought the homework on set (what a service). She finds homeschooling easier for her job, but somehow she missed regular, especially when she is watching her younger brothers. She was in her last, senior year in high school in 2021 and graduated high school earlier. Then she took college classes online for about a year. But it wasn't acually her thing and was doing acting classes for about one to two years. That got her in her first leading role in her first leading in ''The Lies I told Myself'', but I was released in 2024 about three years after shooting. When she turned 18 she celebrated in Porto Rico and on way she was asked to do an audition for HBO Maxshow ''Gordita Chronicles''. Absolute fluke aka luck, because she didn't done anything in the film industry before, the ''The Lies I told Myself'' was still in post-production and got a week later booked flying back to Porto Rico for her bigger role on a show. | ||
She started dancing at home in Canada when she was two years old. When she went first time in a dance studio she did know she was actually too young by a couple months, because minimal age to take classes was four. But she felt she was meant to do this and pretended to be a couple months older, so no one stopped the kid and no one noticed it until she was four. At the age five, when she was going home, she found a little book "One day I going to move to Hollywood." and made a picture of it. So she thinks she is exactly where she should be now and everything happens for a reason. Tatiana danced competitively at the Bojangles Dance Arts Studio in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. | She started dancing at home in Canada when she was two years old. When she went first time in a dance studio she did know she was actually too young by a couple months, because minimal age to take classes was four. But she felt she was meant to do this and pretended to be a couple months older, so no one stopped the kid and no one noticed it until she was four. At the age five, when she was going home, she found a little book "One day I going to move to Hollywood." and made a picture of it. So she thinks she is exactly where she should be now and everything happens for a reason. Tatiana danced competitively at the Bojangles Dance Arts Studio in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. | ||
Later at the age of seven, she moved actually to LA with her mom and two younger brothers, because her dad worked in LA and her parents had too much long distance flights and they decided moving all together to the world capitol of industry dancers. It was destiny for Tati, and she continued dancing in LA at "The Rage" dance complex. She was dreaming these days to get on TV shows, but had no thoughts about the process how to get there. Then she was discovered at the Rage by some managers and agents as talent and started first time doing an audition - for a Toyota Prius commercial. That's how her career started, because she ended up booking it and started learning about the industry process when she was eight and was very optimistic at that time. "Yeah, next audition and I'll get it!". But then she started realizing "Your began a luck" (Karate Kid) and not getting every audition. She deals with the lot of "No"-s by following the advice of her parents and is growing with the challenge. But she admits, it was hard for her at the beginning, when she was younger and didn't understand the reasons behind this and got sometimes envious seeing all her own friends had success too, while her own basket often stayed empty. She learned to be happy for them, because there be always the next one and it will newer end, if you don't stop at all; especially with the hard working. In her opinion, the most challenging part about being a dancer, is keeping motivated in such a competitive atmosphere. The older she gets, the tougher it gets. | Later at the age of seven, she moved actually to LA with her mom and two younger brothers, because her dad worked in LA and her parents had too much long distance flights and they decided moving all together to the world capitol of industry dancers. It was destiny for Tati, and she continued dancing in LA at "The Rage" dance complex. She was dreaming these days to get on TV shows, but had no thoughts about the process how to get there. Then she was discovered at the Rage by some managers and agents as talent and started first time doing an audition - for a Toyota Prius commercial at the age of eight. That's how her career started, because she ended up booking it and started learning about the industry process when she was eight and was very optimistic at that time. "Yeah, next audition and I'll get it!". But then she started realizing "Your began a luck" (Karate Kid) and not getting every audition. She deals with the lot of "No"-s by following the advice of her parents and is growing with the challenge. But she admits, it was hard for her at the beginning, when she was younger and didn't understand the reasons behind this and got sometimes envious seeing all her own friends had success too, while her own basket often stayed empty. She learned to be happy for them, because there be always the next one and it will newer end, if you don't stop at all; especially with the hard working. In her opinion, the most challenging part about being a dancer, is keeping motivated in such a competitive atmosphere. The older she gets, the tougher it gets. | ||
Her first hip-hop teacher was Will "WilldaBeast" Adams at the Rage and Will's first class too ... as teacher. So Tati and Will got historically very close together and Tati got one of the first members of IMMA and joined [https://www.instagram.com/thelilbeasts/?hl=en first LilBeast], ImmaBeast's sub company for very young talents who became later all famous too. Tati stayed in touch with IMMA and now she is older generation of one of the most important dance companies in the world. ImmaBEAST is like a second family to her where everyone has the same interests and goals in mind. It’s a safe place to learn and grow together. At IMMA she met also first time also two her best friends [[Tahani Anderson]] and [[Kaycee Rice]] and formed the girl group "KayHaniTi". An innocent childhood friendship, who did kids stuff beyond dancing too, like setup a tent in a room and had a sleepover in it. So the besties got very close together. In the later years Tati kept more in touch with Tahani then with Kaycee. She also met first time another one of her best friends and permanent dancer partner - [[Gabe De Guzman]]. Still these days Gabe is considering Tati as little sister and have quite a history together when they toured together to Philippines, Dominican Republic and Columbia when Tati was somewhere between 13-15 and Gabe 15-17 years old . | Her first hip-hop teacher was Will "WilldaBeast" Adams at the Rage and Will's first class too ... as teacher. So Tati and Will got historically very close together and Tati got one of the first members of IMMA and joined [https://www.instagram.com/thelilbeasts/?hl=en first LilBeast], ImmaBeast's sub company for very young talents who became later all famous too. Tati stayed in touch with IMMA and now she is older generation of one of the most important dance companies in the world. ImmaBEAST is like a second family to her where everyone has the same interests and goals in mind. It’s a safe place to learn and grow together. At IMMA she met also first time also two her best friends [[Tahani Anderson]] and [[Kaycee Rice]] and formed the girl group "KayHaniTi". An innocent childhood friendship, who did kids stuff beyond dancing too, like setup a tent in a room and had a sleepover in it. So the besties got very close together. In the later years Tati kept more in touch with Tahani then with Kaycee. She also met first time another one of her best friends and permanent dancer partner - [[Gabe De Guzman]]. Still these days Gabe is considering Tati as little sister and have quite a history together when they toured together to Philippines, Dominican Republic and Columbia when Tati was somewhere between 13-15 and Gabe 15-17 years old . | ||
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IMMA and KayHaniTi brought Tati to fame, although she had herself never that breakthrough event in her career to get public eye to justify a wiki page like this for a minor, but now she is an adult and their are no legal obstacles to introduce the incredible young woman. She was on the first dance video of WilldaBeast and people started asking, who the baby girl on the video was, she is damn good too. KayHaniTi brought her to fame, because Kaycee got public eye two years before by Katy Perry's tweet and her fame and those many other prominent dancers draw attention to Tati as well and she was seen as part of the dance industry elite. Tati remembered from these days [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhdvrfxZAQ how happy everyone was]. They had no clue where all these film shots will bring them one day and just had a blast by dancing, because they loved it. - 'It gets filmed?! Cool!'- They didn't even thinking about social media when people pointed out 'you guys are very good for your age' and they stayed all humble. She feels that the next generation is much more competitive, because they get filmed for social media since their entire career. But when she has started there was no social media and their cared just about fun, friends and socializing; all stayed easy and want to keep it like this. | IMMA and KayHaniTi brought Tati to fame, although she had herself never that breakthrough event in her career to get public eye to justify a wiki page like this for a minor, but now she is an adult and their are no legal obstacles to introduce the incredible young woman. She was on the first dance video of WilldaBeast and people started asking, who the baby girl on the video was, she is damn good too. KayHaniTi brought her to fame, because Kaycee got public eye two years before by Katy Perry's tweet and her fame and those many other prominent dancers draw attention to Tati as well and she was seen as part of the dance industry elite. Tati remembered from these days [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhdvrfxZAQ how happy everyone was]. They had no clue where all these film shots will bring them one day and just had a blast by dancing, because they loved it. - 'It gets filmed?! Cool!'- They didn't even thinking about social media when people pointed out 'you guys are very good for your age' and they stayed all humble. She feels that the next generation is much more competitive, because they get filmed for social media since their entire career. But when she has started there was no social media and their cared just about fun, friends and socializing; all stayed easy and want to keep it like this. | ||
When she was 9-10 she met first time Matt Steffanina and worked intensively together with him, at the beginning in classes, later on his concept videos and on conventions as master-student or his assistant abroad. Matt and Tati have a long history as well, but of course, the most prominent choreographer in the world has | When she was 9-10 she met first time Matt Steffanina and worked intensively together with him, at the beginning in classes, later on his concept videos and on conventions as master-student or his assistant abroad. Matt and Tati have a long history as well, but of course, the most prominent choreographer in the world has thousands of students. Nevertheless, Matt has taken her under his wing by booking her for jobs as his assistant and taking her around the world with him. Another choreographer who has a big imprint on Tati is [https://www.galenhooks.com/ Galen Hooks]. She loves her style and technique. Galen teaches beside hip-hop a lot of old school retro dancing too and knows the old school pro procedures like setup contracts, marketing, promos, networking, behavior on set and during shooting, use of agencies and managers etc, and is offering workshops for it, from times when there was no social media. She also loves learning from or dancing with Tricia Miranda, Brian Friedman, Hamilton Evans, Nika Kljun, and JR Taylor. | ||
Tati loves choreographing and teaching herself and started teaching abroad in 2016. First she was teaching with [[Gabe De Guzman]] and SophyG in Columbia, Dominican Republic and the Philippines and had a eight city tour with Gabe in the Philippines, appeared on local TV and even taught on a trip in Kenya with her mom and the ''Call It Spring x Me to We movement'' to teach dance and help build schools. She likes travelling. Kenya impressed her most and the kids touched her heart, because they don't had phones, TVs, they didn't learned her dance because they saw her on YouTube, they don't even know the song she was playing, but just loved to dance, having a blast and that is what makes Tati happy. Tati got inspired by her mom who started singing with 15 in mexico. | Tati loves choreographing and teaching herself and started teaching abroad in 2016. First she was teaching with [[Gabe De Guzman]] and SophyG in Columbia, Dominican Republic and the Philippines and had a eight city tour with Gabe in the Philippines, appeared on local TV and even taught on a trip in Kenya with her mom and the ''Call It Spring x Me to We movement'' to teach dance and help build schools. She likes travelling. Kenya impressed her most and the kids touched her heart, because they don't had phones, TVs, they didn't learned her dance because they saw her on YouTube, they don't even know the song she was playing, but just loved to dance, having a blast and that is what makes Tati happy. Tati got inspired by her mom who started singing with 15 in mexico. | ||
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[https://www.tiktok.com/@tatimcquay/video/7288085547887709471 Last October 2023 shots] of the beauty. | [https://www.tiktok.com/@tatimcquay/video/7288085547887709471 Last October 2023 shots] of the beauty. | ||
On June 16,2024 "The Lies I Tell Myself" feature ([https://www.facebook.com/gregrogstad/videos/the-trailer-for-the-lies-i-tell-myself-is-out-now-link-in-bio-ricardo-tatimcquay/870551960092737/ Trailer]) is finaly released where Tati played the main role Cassie on the platforms [https://tubitv.com/movies/100022518/the-lies-i-tell-myself Tubi] and [https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-lies-i-tell-myself/umc.cmc.3eg4mn1xldwk1uer1a6osgxpu Apple TV].<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/tatimcquay/reel/C8QSQidSCA9/ Tati's IG The Lies I Tell Myself]</ref> She is also starring as Tati on Dalas Davis teen movie "Fearless" which is currently on post-production, where for entering a hip-hop contest, two young brothers, who have never danced, have only three days to prepare and overcome the deep insecurity of one brother.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26689176/ IMDb Fearless]</ref> | |||
The online magazine ''CelebMafia'' has a [https://celebmafia.com/tati-mcquay/ huge collection of Tati's modeling and social-media shots from 2017 to 2024]. | |||
As of Feb 2025, Tati has about 614K+ Instagram, 1.6M+ TikTok followers and 40K+ YouTube subscribers, while she was [https://www.instagram.com/tatimcquay/p/DGMMugJSgIC/?img_index=1 hanging out in Nassau on the Bahamas]. Since July 31, 2025 Tati can be watched on family movie [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26689176/?ref_=mv_close "Fearless" by director Dalas Davis as Tati]. First just online and since November 1, 2025 limited in the US. | |||
==Singing== | ==Singing== | ||
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[[Category:Multi-Talented]] | [[Category:Multi-Talented]] | ||
[[Category:August Births]] | [[Category:August Births]] | ||
[[Category:2003 births]] | |||