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Queen Naija Bulls (born October 17, 1995), known professionally as Queen Naija, is an American singer and songwriter signed to Capitol Records. Queen Naija is originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan where she received initial fame as an American YouTube personality and social media influencer.

In December 2017, she self-released her song, Medicine, following a public breakup with her now ex-husband. As an unsigned social media star, Queen Naija's song made an astounding No. 45 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of April 10, 2018. In June 2018, she released her second debut single, Karma, but this time as a signed artist to Capitol Records. On it's release day, the song managed to reach #1 overall on the iTunes charts. Queen Naija released an self-titled EP, Queen Naija on July 27, 2018.

The year of 2018 had transformed Queen Naija into one of 2018’s biggest breakout R&B star. Following the success of two debut singles, "Medicine" and "Karma" as well as an "Queen Naija - EP", YouTube named her as their “Artist on the Rise,” iHeartRadio named her their “Artist On the Verge,” and she debuted at #1 on the Billboard Charts “Emerging Artists,” chart.

Early Life
Queen Naija was born on October 17, 1995, in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She has described her ethnicity as a mix of "Black, Italian and Arab". Her mother is African-American & Italian and her father is Arab originally from Yemen. When her mother was 9 months pregnant with Queen, her father told her mother that he did not want for Queen to be raised in America. He wanted for Queen to be raised by his eldest children, her sisters, as Muslim and to be cultured back in his home country. Also, she later learned that her father had an arranged marriage set for her at the age of 12. Her father's wishes were not made successful because he was deported when Queen was 2 months old. She was raised by a single mother and grew up to never know her father nor what he looked like. In 2005, her father passed away. It wasn't until 2018, where her prayer was answered to finally see an image of her father which she documented on her Youtube channel.

Her birth name, Queen Naija, was given to her by her mother who thought it would make a great stage name since she knew Queen was going to be a star. The name "Queen" was inspired from her grandmother with the same first name and the name "Naija" was created to represent her father's name, Naiji. Queen Naija discovered her talent of singing at a very young age. At the age of 3, she began singing in church and writing her own songs in the third grade. It was there where her love of music formed as well as her relationship with God.

2014: American Idol
Queen Naija first gained limelight as a contestant in the eighth season of American Idol. At age 17, Queen Naija, then known as Queen Bulls returned to audition on American Idol for a second time after her audition 2 years before did not advance her into the next round. In the eighth season, she succeeded in her audition and advanced into the Hollywood round but was cut when the top 30 were chosen. Post her ‘Idol’ days, Queen Naija went back to working as a security guard in which she later discovered and concentrated on her career in YouTube.

2016 - Present: Youtube
Queen Naija began her career as a Youtuber in 2016 along side her now ex-husband, Christopher Sails. The Youtube channel named "Chris and Queen" consisted of couple related videos such as challenges, story times, vlogs and pranks. It also consisted of music by the couple, including a few popular songs with each other and remixed/covered songs by Queen Naija. Within a year, the couple's channel quickly grew in popularity reaching over 2.3 million subscribers. In November 2017, the couple officially separated and Queen filed for divorce. The "Chris and Queen" channel that held over 2.3 million subscribers was given to Chris Sails by Queen Naija after she filed for divorce and left him (which he since renamed it to Chris Sails).

On April 4, 2017, she created her own Youtube channel named "Queen Naija". She has said that the reason she created her own channel while still being a part of the couple channel was because she wanted something to fall back on if the relationship took a turn for the worst. Once her relationship officially ended with Chris Sails, Queen Naija had to be solo and build up her own Youtube channel which held around 600,000 subscribers at the time. Within a year, the "Queen Naija" channel had surpassed the old channel and now currently holds a total of 3.4 million subscribers. In July 2018, Queen Naija created a new co-Youtube channel, "Royal Family", alongside her boyfriend Clarence White. Within 3 months, the channel which consists of challenges, vlogs, story times and family content currently holds a total of 1.4 million subscribers.

2016 - 2017: Career beginnings with Music
Queen Naija first began her career with music while she was on Youtube. She had created music with her ex-husband Chris, including popular songs such as "Maybe", "Come To This", and "Exclusive Girl". She had also collaborated on music with close friends, which she considers her brothers, Armon & Trey in song covers such as "Drunk Texting, Nobody, Love in this Club, Superhuman, End of Time", "Medicine (Remix)" and an original song by the trio "No Strings". Aside from song the many music collaborations, Queen also created song covers/remixes on her own such as "Selfish", "If I were a boy", "Sandcastles" and "Tory Lanez-Proud Family" also an original song "Secret Girl". Though all of the song collaborations and covers/remixes grew in popularity among fans, they never went mainstream nor outside of the Youtube platform.

After her public breakup, Queen Naija decided to channel her emotions into a song in which she hoped could answer the questions many fans had of her relationship. She dropped “Medicine” on December 31, 2017 and in less than two weeks of the song's release, it had more than 2 million views on Youtube. In an interview with Fader magazine, she described her song as "Medicine was basically made to confirm to my supporters on YouTube what happened in my marriage. They wanted to know was I leaving or not. I didn't want to say anything because the first time after the cheating situation happened, I stayed. I felt stupid. But then it happened again privately and I didn't want everyone to be like, I told you so. So instead of talking about it, I told them I'd write a song about it. Once I saw how crazy it went outside of YouTube, I was like, Okay, I need to take music more seriously. I've always wanted to sing — I've been singing since I was three. I knew it was going to happen somehow, but I didn't know how."

2018: New Artist/Breakout R&B Star
Queen Naija stepped into the year of 2018 with her newly released song, "Medicine". In January 2018, she did an official lyrics & meaning interview with Genius (website). A month after the song's release, it continued to spark buzz and grew to over 5 million views. The hot song and buzz behind "Medicine" managed to capture the attention of record labels across the country. She documented on her Youtube channel, a few meetings with record labels that she attended with her team/management. By March 2018, Queen’s initial song post of "Medicine" had logged more than 10 million views and an official music video was released later that month in which the concept of the video sparked even more buzz and capitalized on the growing interest of the song. The video acquired 4.5 million views the day of it's release and currently holds over 73 million views.

On April 25, 2017, Queen Naija signed to Capitol Records. In an announcement video of her standing on the Capitol Records tower which she posted onto her Instagram page, she thanked everyone closest to her including her family, her team (Spicy Gang), management (Spicy Management), and her supporters who have followed her throughout her entire journey. Queen Naija's signing to Capitol Records was documented on Youtube by her boyfriend, Clarence White, in a vlog titled "She Has To Prove Herself..". On June 28, 2018, she released her second single "Karma". Queen Naija had written and recorded the song back in January, 2018 which caused for an increased anticipation from fans for it's release. In an interview with Genius (website), she described this song as being a more personal story in which she said "I just was trying to get a more personal because “Medicine” was personal. I just wanted to tell people how I really, really, really felt, like about not being confident about myself, and the reason why. I wanted people to know all the good that I was doing too. Like, how I stuck by his side, and all that stuff. How I was a good woman, and how I felt." On it's release day, the song reached #1 overall on the iTunes charts. "Karma" closed the week as the thirteenth-best seller in the United States, thus taking #13 on the Billboard Digital Songs sales chart. On July 2018, "Karma" debuted at #63 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three months after it's release, the record currently holds over 45 million views.

2018: Queen Naija - EP
Queen Naija released her self-titled extended playlist, "Queen Naija - EP" on July 27, 2018. The extended playlist consists of five songs: Medicine, Karma, Mama's Hand, Butterflies, and Bad Boy. The project includes production from No I.D., El Jefe, Rob Grimaldi, 30HERTZBEATS, and ClickNPress.

Queen Naija has described her EP as an emotional journey in which each song describes either an experience or emotion she has gone through in life. In the project's specific order, the songs includes topics such as heartbreak and betrayal, mother hood, and finding new love all over again. "Medicine" explains her heartbreak and emotions toward her ex-partner and "Karma" explains overcoming the heartbreak while it sends a message that she will be fine. "Mama's Hand" is a song dedicated to her son where she promises to give him everything and encourages him to have optimistic thoughts about the future. "Butterflies" reveals how she is beginning to fall in love again with someone new. "Bad Boy" describes her connection with a new lover and how possibly her goodness will cause him to change for the better. On August 2018, the project debuted at #26 on the Billboard 200 and reached #1 on Apple Music R&B charts.

Marriage/Divorce
Queen Naija met Christopher Sails, her now ex-husband, at a high school basketball game where he asked for her phone number but she denied him. They would later meet again and started dating in April 2013. The couple got married at the age of 19, on October 2014, to avoid having a baby out of wedlock after she found out she was pregnant. On February 2015, Queen gave birth to their son named Christopher Jeremiah, also known as CJ.

In 2016, Queen Naija and Christopher Sails began gaining popularity from their Facebook/Vine videos being labeled as "relationship goals". Despite them gaining popularity and their videos going viral, the couple was still struggling financially as they lived in a one-bedroom apartment on Section 8 housing. They discovered Youtube where they learned that you can make money on the platform from videos. They created the channel named 'Chris and Queen' which consisted of challenges, story times, and prank videos that quickly grew in popularity. By mid 2017, the Youtube channel grew with over 2.3 million subscribers.

In September 2017, at the peak of their success following the rise of money and internet fame, Chris Sails was publicly accused by multiple women of cheating. The couple each uploaded videos on their Youtube channel where Queen expressed her anger, hurt, and humiliation while Chris Sails admitted to his wrongs and asked for forgiveness. After multiple attempts to make their marriage work, Queen Naija kept discovering by more accusers that he remained unfaithful. Queen Naija left Chris and filed for divorce in November 2017. She described the divorce process to be easy after Christopher agreed to sign the divorce papers and she let him keep everything which included the couple Youtube channel, house, cars, and money. The divorce was finalized on April 2, 2018.

New Found Love
Clarence White is originally from The Bronx borough of New York City, where he began his career as a professional model, clothing designer and business owner of Designed by White, Youtube personality, and social media influencer.

Queen Naija and Clarence White's friendship caused internet buzz after they got on Instagram live with one another. In January 2018, when Queen Naija flew to New York for a Genius (website) interview for her song Medicine, they collaborated on multiple Youtube videos which had millions of viewers tuned in. The pair hosted club events, had photoshoots together and began gaining even more popularity on Youtube from more collaboration videos with one another. They were later signed under the same management, Spicy Management.

Clarence White was featured as a new lover in the "Medicine - Queen Naija (official video)" in March 2018. Through the months of March and April, he attended record label meetings to support Queen Naija and was present when she signed to Capitol Records. After months of speculation, Queen Naija and Clarence White went public with their relationship at the 2018 BET Awards carpet. The couple created a joint Youtube channel called "Royal Family" where the pair announced Queen Naija's pregnancy and are expecting a boy due February 2018.

Tour
The Birth of Queen Naija Tour (2018)

Queen Naija will be headlining her first tour in North America from October, 2018 through December, 2018. She will be touring her self-titled EP, "Queen Naija - EP" which has reached over 280 million-plus cumulative streams to date and The New York Times proclaimed “Medicine” as “one of this year’s defining R&B songs.”