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Tati 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 month 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.

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. "Yeh, next audition and I'll get it!". But then she started realizing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8PP86aSz50 "Your began a luck"] 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 leaned 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.

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. "Yeh, next audition and I'll get it!". But then she started realizing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8PP86aSz50 "Your began a luck"] 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 leaned 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 [http://www.immabeast.co/lilbeasts-1 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. At IMMA she met also first time also two her best friends [[Tahani Anderson]] and [[Kaycee Rice]] and formed the girl group "KayHanTi". An innocent childhood friendship, who did kids stuff beyond dancing too, like setup a tend in a room and had a sleepover in it. So the besties got very close together, but in the later years Tati kept more in touch with Tahani then with Kaycee for unknown reasons but they are stll friends. 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 KayHanTi 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. KayHanTi 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 how happy everyone were. 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 competetive 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, socializing; all stayed easy and want to keep it like this.

When she was 9-10 her met first time Matt Steffanina and worked intensively together, at the beginning in classes, later on his concept vidios and on conventions as masterstudent. Matt and Tati have a long history as well, but the most prominent choreographer in the world has of course thousends of students. Another choreographer who has a big imprint on Tati is [https://www.galenhooks.com/ Galen Hooks]. Galen teaches beside hip-hop a lot of old school retro dancing too and also old school pro procedures like setup contracts, marketing, promos, networking, behaviour on set and during shooting, use of agencies and managers etc , from times when there was no social media.

When she was 9-10 her met first time Matt Steffanina and worked intensively together, at the beginning in classes, later on his concept vidios and on conventions as masterstudent. Matt and Tati have a long history as well, but the most prominent choreographer in the world has of course thousends of students. Another choreographer who has a big imprint on Tati is [https://www.galenhooks.com/ Galen Hooks]. Galen teaches beside hip-hop a lot of old school retro dancing too and also old school pro procedures like setup contracts, marketing, promos, networking, behaviour on set and during shooting, use of agencies and managers etc , from times when there was no social media. She also loves learning from and 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 ~~others~~. 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 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.

==L2M (Listening 2 Music) Pop Girl Group==

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starring in national commercials for companies such as Toyota, Macy’s, and McDonald’s, as well as for Disney.

Tati is a hard core "belieber", a Justin Bieber fan, with tons of posters of him in her room, and when there was a submission on YouTube by Justin's choreographer Nick DeMoura 'Post your video online to get a chance to perform with Justin live on stage' she applied. Of cource, there were thousends of applications and she applied for LA, was facing a hell of competition. She was waiting about a month for the call and finally her mom got it and when saw on phone her mom was calling. she instantly broke out into tears, because knew what that means. So Tati performed at the sold out 41,445 tickets show Stables Center on March 23, 2016 live on stage with Justin together with her friend [[Gabe De Guzman]] and two other kid dancer talents and got introduced to the crowd by the mega-star himself. And Tati was melting. She worked also tree times with Meghan Trainor. Performend on her dance video "No Excuses", on the Disney Music Awards and together with her with Matt Steffanina.

Tati is a hard core "belieber", a Justin Bieber fan, with tons of posters of him in her room, and when there was a submission on YouTube by Justin's choreographer Nick DeMoura 'Post your video online to get a chance to perform with Justin live on stage' she applied. Of cource, there were thousends of applications and she applied for LA, was facing a hell of competition. She was waiting about a month for the call and finally her mom got it and when saw on phone her mom was calling. she instantly broke out into tears, because knew what that means. So Tati performed at the sold out 41,445 tickets show Stables Center on March 23, 2016 live on stage with Justin together with her friend [[Gabe De Guzman]] and two other kid dancer talents and got introduced to the crowd by the mega-star himself. And Tati was melting and is seing this as her biggest highlight of my dance career. She worked also tree times with Meghan Trainor. Performend on her dance video "No Excuses", on the Disney Music Awards and together with her with Matt Steffanina. She performed with Janet Jackson on her Unbreakable World Tour in 2015.

Some of her biggest goals in next years is getting an action role on a movie. She wants to be like Wunderwoman or simular, a superhero and doing her own stunts. She is fan of Gal Gadot wants to be her.Well-fortified Tati got black belt in Tang Soo Do at Nov 2017 at the age of 12. <ref>[https://twitter.com/kayhanati/status/929615732182343686 Tati's IG]</ref> So when she is flying over your head somewhere, relax! She is just practicing for the next Marvel auditions. She also a fan of Jennifer Lopez and is impressed being at same time a real person ~~and~~ a mom and killing it on a show as dancer and performer. She is also keen to work with Selena Gomez one day.

Some of her biggest goals in next years is getting an action role on a movie. She wants to be like Wunderwoman or simular, a superhero and doing her own stunts. She is fan of Gal Gadot wants to be like her. Gal was a member of the Israel Special Forces. Well-fortified Tati got black belt in Tang Soo Do herself at Nov 2017 at the age of 12. <ref>[https://twitter.com/kayhanati/status/929615732182343686 Tati's IG]</ref> So when she is flying over your head somewhere, relax! She is just practicing for the next Marvel auditions. She also a fan of Jennifer Lopez and is impressed being at same time a real person, a mom and killing it on a show as dancer and performer. She is also keen to work with Selena Gomez one day.

<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWcqjO-QMzw Tati McQuay Reveals Details About her New Music]</ref>

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McQuay has performed with major artists including Justin Bieber, Janet Jackson, and Meghan Trainor (to name a few).

~~Additionally, she visited Kenya with the Call It Spring x Me to We movement to teach dance and help build schools.~~

Currently, she stars in her own YouTube Red show called Hyperlinked, playing the role of Izzy. It’s clear that McQuay has been on a rocketing rise to fame these past few years—and now she’s ready to share all about her journey

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What is most special about dance to you?

It’s my outlet to express my feelings and let loose! It has always been there for me and I just love how it makes me feel. It’s amazing how I can inspire and motivate others through dance to follow their dreams and do what they love.

~~What would you say has been your biggest accomplishment as a dancer to date?~~

~~By far, dancing on stage with Justin Bieber in L.A. on his Purpose Tour was the biggest highlight of my dance career. I’m a huge “belieber” and always will be.~~

~~In your opinion, what is the most challenging part about being a dancer?~~

~~Trying to stay motivated in such a competitive atmosphere. The older I get, the tougher it gets, for sure.~~

Who are some of your favorite choreographers you’ve worked with and why?

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 Tati 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 month 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.
-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. "Yeh, next audition and I'll get it!". But then she started realizing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8PP86aSz50 "Your began a luck"] 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 leaned 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.
+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. "Yeh, next audition and I'll get it!". But then she started realizing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8PP86aSz50 "Your began a luck"] 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 leaned 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 [http://www.immabeast.co/lilbeasts-1 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. At IMMA she met also first time also two her best friends [[Tahani Anderson]] and [[Kaycee Rice]] and formed the girl group "KayHanTi". An innocent childhood friendship, who did kids stuff beyond dancing too, like setup a tend in a room and had a sleepover in it. So the besties got very close together, but in the later years Tati kept more in touch with Tahani then with Kaycee for unknown reasons but they are stll friends. 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 KayHanTi 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. KayHanTi 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 how happy everyone were. 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 competetive 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, socializing; all stayed easy and want to keep it like this.
-When she was 9-10 her met first time Matt Steffanina and worked intensively together, at the beginning in classes, later on his concept vidios and on conventions as masterstudent. Matt and Tati have a long history as well, but the most prominent choreographer in the world has of course thousends of students. Another choreographer who has a big imprint on Tati is [https://www.galenhooks.com/ Galen Hooks]. Galen teaches beside hip-hop a lot of old school retro dancing too and also old school pro procedures like setup contracts, marketing, promos, networking, behaviour on set and during shooting, use of agencies and managers etc , from times when there was no social media.
+When she was 9-10 her met first time Matt Steffanina and worked intensively together, at the beginning in classes, later on his concept vidios and on conventions as masterstudent. Matt and Tati have a long history as well, but the most prominent choreographer in the world has of course thousends of students. Another choreographer who has a big imprint on Tati is [https://www.galenhooks.com/ Galen Hooks]. Galen teaches beside hip-hop a lot of old school retro dancing too and also old school pro procedures like setup contracts, marketing, promos, networking, behaviour on set and during shooting, use of agencies and managers etc , from times when there was no social media.  She also loves learning from and 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 others. 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 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 <i>Call It Spring x Me to We movement</i> 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.
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   starring in national commercials for companies such as Toyota, Macy’s, and McDonald’s, as well as for Disney.
-Tati is a hard core "belieber", a Justin Bieber fan, with tons of posters of him in her room, and when there was a submission on YouTube by Justin's choreographer Nick DeMoura 'Post your video online to get a chance to perform with Justin live on stage' she applied. Of cource, there were thousends of applications and she applied for LA, was facing a hell of competition. She was waiting about a month for the call and finally her mom got it and when saw on phone her mom was calling. she instantly broke out into tears, because knew what that means. So Tati performed at the sold out 41,445 tickets show Stables Center on March 23, 2016 live on stage with Justin together with her friend [[Gabe De Guzman]] and two other kid dancer talents and got introduced to the crowd by the mega-star himself. And Tati was melting. She worked also tree times with Meghan Trainor. Performend on her dance video "No Excuses", on the Disney Music Awards and together with her with Matt Steffanina.
+Tati is a hard core "belieber", a Justin Bieber fan, with tons of posters of him in her room, and when there was a submission on YouTube by Justin's choreographer Nick DeMoura 'Post your video online to get a chance to perform with Justin live on stage' she applied. Of cource, there were thousends of applications and she applied for LA, was facing a hell of competition. She was waiting about a month for the call and finally her mom got it and when saw on phone her mom was calling. she instantly broke out into tears, because knew what that means. So Tati performed at the sold out 41,445 tickets show Stables Center on March 23, 2016 live on stage with Justin together with her friend [[Gabe De Guzman]] and two other kid dancer talents and got introduced to the crowd by the mega-star himself. And Tati was melting and is seing this as her biggest highlight of my dance career. She worked also tree times with Meghan Trainor. Performend on her dance video "No Excuses", on the Disney Music Awards and together with her with Matt Steffanina. She performed with Janet Jackson on her Unbreakable World Tour in 2015.
-Some of her biggest goals in next years is getting an action role on a movie. She wants to be like Wunderwoman or simular, a superhero and doing her own stunts. She is fan of Gal Gadot wants to be her.Well-fortified Tati got black belt in Tang Soo Do at Nov 2017 <b>at the age of 12</b>. <ref>[https://twitter.com/kayhanati/status/929615732182343686 Tati's IG]</ref> So when she is flying over your head somewhere, relax! She is just practicing for the next Marvel auditions. She also a fan of Jennifer Lopez and is impressed being at same time a real person and a mom and killing it on a show as dancer and performer. She is also keen to work with Selena Gomez one day.
+Some of her biggest goals in next years is getting an action role on a movie. She wants to be like Wunderwoman or simular, a superhero and doing her own stunts. She is fan of Gal Gadot wants to be like her. Gal was a member of the Israel Special Forces. Well-fortified Tati got black belt in Tang Soo Do herself at Nov 2017 <b>at the age of 12</b>.   <ref>[https://twitter.com/kayhanati/status/929615732182343686 Tati's IG]</ref> So when she is flying over your head somewhere, relax! She is just practicing for the next Marvel auditions. She also a fan of Jennifer Lopez and is impressed being at same time a real person, a mom and killing it on a show as dancer and performer. She is also keen to work with Selena Gomez one day.
 <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWcqjO-QMzw Tati McQuay Reveals Details About her New Music]</ref>
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 McQuay has performed with major artists including Justin Bieber, Janet Jackson, and Meghan Trainor (to name a few).
-Additionally, she visited Kenya with the Call It Spring x Me to We movement to teach dance and help build schools.
 Currently, she stars in her own YouTube Red show called Hyperlinked, playing the role of Izzy. It’s clear that McQuay has been on a rocketing rise to fame these past few years—and now she’s ready to share all about her journey
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 What is most special about dance to you?
 It’s my outlet to express my feelings and let loose! It has always been there for me and I just love how it makes me feel. It’s amazing how I can inspire and motivate others through dance to follow their dreams and do what they love.
-What would you say has been your biggest accomplishment as a dancer to date?
-By far, dancing on stage with Justin Bieber in L.A. on his Purpose Tour was the biggest highlight of my dance career. I’m a huge “belieber” and always will be.
-In your opinion, what is the most challenging part about being a dancer?
-Trying to stay motivated in such a competitive atmosphere. The older I get, the tougher it gets, for sure.
 Who are some of your favorite choreographers you’ve worked with and why?