10 Things You Should Know About Yuna
The goods on one of Being Mary Jane's soundtrack stars.
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10 Things You Should Know About Yuna - Season two of Being Mary Jane airs tonight (Feb. 3, #BMJ) and fans are anticipating the show's music as much as they are the adventures of Mary Jane Paul, played by Gabrielle Union.One singer whose music will be a part of the soundtrack is up-and-coming pop star Yuna. Her song "Lullabies" is in the first episode and her airy, other-worldly vocal style has made fans of heavyweights from Pharrell to music writing legend David Foster. Read on to learn more about this rising chanteuse. (Photo: Rick Kern/WireImage)
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Straight Outta Malaysia - The international sensation was born and raised in Malaysia's capital city of Kuala Lumpur and began writing songs (in English) at the tender age of 14.(Photo: Splash News)
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Laying Down the Law - For her college years, Yuna attended the MARA University of Technology where she studied law. While studying for her bachelors, the then-teenaged singer got involved with the Malaysian music scene.(Photo: Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)
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One in a Million - Yuna's tunes caught a local buzz when she began posting her music (sung in English and Malay) to Myspace in 2006. The same year, she became a contestant on the reality TV singing competition One in a Million, making it to the top 40.(Photo: Azhar Rahim/EPA/Landov)
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Yuna Ascending - Three years after her self-titled EP became a massive hit in Malaysia — thanks to the buzz-worthy song "Deeper Conversation" — Yuna won over American listeners with her 2011 EP Decorate, which also featured the hit single. (Photo: Mohamad Syaheir Azizan/Demotix/Corbis)
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