Tati McQuay
Tatiana McQuay (born on August 30, 2003 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) is a multi-talented Canadian professional actress, dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, fitness trainer, singer, model and a Tang Soo Do master with Mexican roots living in California.
| Tatiana McQuay | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Age | 18 |
| Birthdate | August 30, 2003 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Hometown | Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| Height | 5'3" |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown |
| Hair Color | Black |
| School Grade | {{{school grade}}} |
| Professional Information | |
| Profession | Dancer Choreographer Dance Teacher Fitness Trainer Singer Actress Model |
| Affiliations | Manager Shanelle Gray BlocLA Agency The Osbrink Agency L2M girl group 5150 productions ImmaBEAST Co. |
| Dance Studios | Bojangles Dance Studio IMMA Space (2017-) |
| Titles | see below |
| Friends and Family | |
| Parents | Michelle McQuay (mother, fitness guru) Stan Mcquay (father, bodybuilder) Janelle Ginestra-Adams (Mama Beast) William Adams (Papa Beast) |
| Siblings | Kai McQuay Zen McQuay |
| Friends | Kaycee Rice Tahani Anderson Gabe De Guzman Nia Frazier Mackenzie Ziegler Brooke Hyland Paige Hyland Sofie Dossi |
| Pets | 1 dog (Rockit) |
| Nicknames | Tati |
Tati has performed live with major artists including Justin Bieber, Janet Jackson, and Meghan Trainor, to name a few. She 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 hearttending. Of course, there were thousands of applications and she applied for LA, was facing a hell of competition. She was waiting about a month for the call. Finally her mom got it and when saw on phone her mom was calling. she instantly broke out into tears, because she knew what that means. So Tati performed on the sold out 41,445 tickets show at Stables Center on March 23, 2016 live on stage with Justin together with her friend Gabe De Guzman and two other kid dancer talents, got introduced to the crowd by the mega-star himself - "Give it up for Tati!" and Tati was melting.[1] She is seing this as her biggest highlight of her entire dance career. She worked also three times with Meghan Trainor. Performed on her dance video "No Excuses", with her on the Disney Music Awards and once together with Meghan and Matt Steffanina. She also performed with Janet Jackson live on stage on her Unbreakable World Tour in 2015.
As dancer she appeared on the Dance-Off Juniors (Eps.11) reality show in 2016. On Disney's Zombies 2: The Collab short video, Johnny Orlando & Mackenzie Ziegler: What If music video, The Missy Elliot Tribute short film by playing young Alyson Stoner. [2]
She has already an impressive non-dance related acting career. Regarding IMDb, she stars on upcoming drama and romance movie The Lies I Tell Myself by director and writer Tati Vogt.[3] She starred in 2017 with her L2M girl group own YouTube Red show called Hyperlinked[4], playing the role of Izzy in ten episodes. In same year she played young Lexi in Cody & Lexy TV Series on four episodes[5]. Had a guest appearence on Sawyer Sharbino TV show, appeared on the Valkyrie Awards[6], was three episodes of Teens Wanna Know talk-show and documentary and many short videos like ChannelAlexis2k6 video.
Some of her biggest goals in next years is getting an action role on a movie. She is highly trained in martial arts and other fighting sports. She wants to be like Wunderwoman or similar, a superhero and doing her own stunts. She loves to become an all-around performer. She is big fan of Gal Gadot and wants to be like her. Gal was e.g. a member of the Israel Special Forces during her military service. The well-fortified Tati got black belt in Tang Soo Do herself at Nov 2017 at the age of 13.[7] So when she is flying on Sunsset Strip over your head or something like that... 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 [8] and othe celebrity crush of her are Billy Eilish and Shawn Mendes. But she is just plan on staying busy and doing what she loves.
Tati was starring in national commercials for companies such as Toyota, Macy’s, and McDonald’s, as well as for Disney.
She was modeling for Call It Spring.
Tati gets 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. Now she is in her last, senior year in high school.
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 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. "Yeah, next audition and I'll get it!". But then she started realizing "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 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 "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. 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 .
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 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 her met first time Matt Steffanina and worked intensively together with him, at the beginning in classes, later on his concept vidios and on conventions as masterstudent or his assistent abroad. Matt and Tati have a long history as well, but of course, the most prominent choreographer in the world has thousends 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 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, behaviour 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.
L2M (Listening 2 Music) Pop Girl Group
In Jan 2016, the five girls Mariangeli, McKenzie, Lexi, Jenna and Tati signed for Warner Music for her first single "Girlz". Mariangeli, 12 at that time, is an exceptional singer, who had over 100M+ views on YouTube. McKenzie, 11 at that time, is experienced actress, who worked already for Disney. Jenna and Lexi, both 11 at the time, are trained on same school for performing arts in Dallas, Texas. They were also an important part of the following LEGO® friends films "Girlz 4 Life", an extension of very popular, animated TV episodes, how are broadcst workdwide. "Girlz 4 Life“ was released on Feb 2, 2016 on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital HD. Producer was Soulshock, who worked with artists like Chris Brown and Usher. Later the girls got their own YouTube Red TV Show "Hyperlinked".
Online Networks
| Platform | Network | Hosts | Subjects | Other Guests | Notes | |
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| Name | Release Date | |||||
| YT | 2019.08.19 | Dance Network - To the Pointe | Kristyn Burtt | Tati McQuay Reveals Details About Her New Music Video | none | |
Gallery
Videos
Some Best of Tati in Dance
Tati Teaching Abroad And Having Workshops at the age of 13 -15, A Blast And Vacation
Own And L2M Music Videos
Tati Doing Martial Arts or Other Fighting Sports
Modeling
Tik Tok/Musical.ly
Quotes
By Tati
- "Stay focused, keep practicing, and have fun. You have to love what you do and never give up on your dreams." (her advice for aspiring dancers)
- Q&A: What is most special about dance to you? - Tati: "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."
Fun Facts
- Her favorite car type is a jeep. She likes fast sports cars.
- She is playing accustic guitar.
- She did a Matt Steffanina 10 min dance challenge. He tasked her to learn an entire masterclass routine and perform it flawless within 10 minutes, which normally took 1-1.5 hours to learn. And she did it in her second attempt - after 8 min 52 sec! [9]
- At the tender age of 10, she won the title of a Camp counselor for the dance convention camp pulse on tour.
- She is obsessed with pin apples and chocolate chips.[10]
References
- ↑ | Purpose Tour Children Los Angeles - Tatiana McQuay
- ↑ Tati McQuay IMDb
- ↑ The Lies I Tell Myself
- ↑ "Hyperlinked"
- ↑ Cody & Lexy
- ↑ Valkyrie Awards
- ↑ Tati's IG
- ↑ Tati McQuay Reveals Details About her New Music
- ↑ Matt's YT channel
- ↑ Tati McQuay Gets To Know Justin Bieber and Fan Girls Over Shawn Mendes! | Hollywire