Doja Cat

CTL-E-5746 · Person · musician · 1995–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07012 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5746.

Doja Cat, born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini on 21 October 1995 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, is an American rapper and singer signed to Kemosabe and RCA. After the debut EP Purrr! (2014) and the album Amala (2018), she broke virally with "Mooo!" in 2018. Hot Pink (2019) opened a run of pop-rap dominance; Planet Her (2021) reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and Scarlet (2023) followed. She won the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Kiss Me More" with SZA in 2022 — one win from nineteen nominations in the sourced count — and "Paint the Town Red" (2023) became her first solo Hot 100 No. 1. Her fifth album Vie was released 26 September 2025, debuting at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 first-week units, with the Tour Ma Vie world tour announced in October 2025.

The record

• Also known as: Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, Amala Dlamini

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Doja Cat entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5746 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 224 (Rappers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure. Vital status: LIVING — fifth album Vie released 26 September 2025; 2026 world-tour dates announced October 2025. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): One Grammy win (Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, "Kiss Me More," 2022) from nineteen nominations; Vie debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 first-week units (2025) — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5746-doja-cat.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Doja Cat" — born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, 21 October 1995, Tarzana, Los Angeles; one Grammy win from 19 nominations; discography — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doja_Cat (build store)
• AllMusic biography (syndicated) — Purrr! (2014) and "So High"; Planet Her No. 2; Scarlet — https://www.powerorlando.com/lsp/artist/bio/doja-cat/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Vie (album)" — released 26 September 2025; No. 4 Billboard 200 debut, 57,000 units — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vie_(album) (build store)

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