Tameka Cottle – Bio, Age, Children, Net Worth, Height, Kids

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Tameka Cottle is a singer and songwriter who has come to be popular as a member of the female R&B vocal quartet, Xscape. A Grammy winner, Tiny as she is referred to because of her small body frame is even more popular as the wife of American rapper and actor, T.I.

Beyond these, Tiny is also a reality TV star who has appeared in a number of TV shows including her reality series Tiny and Toya as well as VH1’s T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle! In which she appears with her husband and other family members.

Tameka Cottle – Biography (Age)

The famous American singer was born Tameka Dianne Cottle on July 14, 1975, in College Park, Georgia, U.S. While her father, Charles Pope was African American, her mother Dianne Cottle is European. She was brought up together with her brother, Red Pope and her sister, Michelle Pope. She also has siblings from an earlier marriage of her father, counting up to six.

Music is not something that has been very far from her family as her father, Charles, founded the R&B group The Tams together with his brother, Joseph Pope in 1960. The band recorded some chart successes and saw its best years in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s.

She began her career in 1992 when she became a member of Xscape. At the time, she was still a student of Tri-Cities Performing Arts High School. Tameka Cottle and other members of the group were discovered by Jermaine Dupri who signed them immediately he heard them sing at his birthday in Atlanta.

The group’s debut album, Hummin’ Comin’ at ‘Cha was released in 1993 and it peaked at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and number 17 on the U.S. Billboard 200. Their next album, Off the Hook which dropped in 1995 was also very successful, likewise its third album Traces of My Lipstick. All the albums went platinum.

Among the awards Cottle won as a member of Xscape are Soul Train Music Awards for Best New R&B Artist as well as Best R&B Album for their first album. In 2010, she won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song thanks to TLC’s No Scrubs which she helped in writing.

Husband and Children

For close to two decades now, Tameka Cottle has been in a relationship with rapper T.I. whom she has been married to for close to a decade. Even though the two have not had what can be described as a problem-free marriage, they have still managed to stick together for many years.

Tameka was a 26 years old woman when she first met her husband in 2001. At the time, T.I. was 21. In no time, they started seeing each other on and off. However, they still remained a close couple even after the rapper was sent to jail in 2006 and then 2009.

In 2010, after T.I whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. made it out of prison, the two decided to tie the knot and they became man and wife. In that same year, they got arrested for being in possession of a controlled substance.

Since then, they have been through some highs and lows in their marriage. In 2016, she filed for divorce but would later call it off in 2017.

Tameka Cottle has three children from her marriage to T.I; King Harris who was born in 2004, Major Philant Harris who was born in 2008, and then Heiress Diana Harris, in 2016. Before Diana, Cottle was pregnant with another girl in 2007, but the daughter was stillborn. Tameka Cottle also has other kids- one from an earlier relationship she had with Zonnie “Zeboe” Pullins and three from other relationships of her husband.

Net Worth

In her career as an entertainer that has spanned many years, Tameka Cottle has achieved so much as a singer and songwriter as well as in her career as a reality TV star. She has a net worth that has been estimated at $3 million US dollars.

On the other hand, the net worth of her husband, T.I. has been estimated to be $50 million U.S dollars. He made his fortune from his music business as well as from other investment he has.

Height

Tiny is not the tallest or even biggest women that one would get to meet. While she is pretty, she stands at a height of ‎only 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m). She also has dark brown hair and dark eyes.

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