Teairra Marí Thomas (born December 2, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter, model, dancer, and actress. She was discovered by the American music mogul JAY-Z while she was 16 years old and signed her under his label Def Jam. In the same year, she released her debut album, Roc-A-Fella Records Presents Teairra Marí, which turned out to be a major debacle. It was a critical success but struggled in garnering the expected sales numbers. This failure threatened to destroy her musical career even before it started and she exited from the label during the production of her second album. A few years later, she got another chance to redeem her career with the single “Hunt 4 U”, and its success enabled her to approach studios to produce her second album, which was later shelved. She embarked on acting in 2009 with the film The Magnificent Cooly-T. Thereafter, she appeared in another film Lottery Ticket in 2010. She has also released some mixtapes featuring some well-known artists of this era and has tasted success with her latest album, Night Shift which was released in 2017.