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Tatyana Ali

American actress and singer (born 1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
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Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress, appearing on the PBS television program Sesame Street. She rose to prominence with her role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1996. Her debut album Kiss the Sky (1998), was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and spawned the hit single "Daydreamin'", which peaked in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100.

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The public source identifies “Tatyana Ali” as american actress and singer (born 1979). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tatyana, American and actress.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1996, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tatyana, American and actress providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1996 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tatyana Ali” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.