Biography
J Sutta, born Jessica Lynn Sutta, is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer recognized first and foremost for her role in the pop and dance ensemble the Pussycat Dolls. Raised in Miami, Florida, she cultivated an early passion for performance by enrolling in dance instruction at the age of three. During her teenage years she trained further at the Miami City Ballet and the New World School of the Arts. Those studies led her to join the Miami Heat cheerleading squad in 1999; she advanced to captain two years later. In 2003 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue professional dance opportunities, where choreographer Robin Antin spotted her and invited her into the newly reconfigured Pussycat Dolls. The group’s management was then shifting its identity from a burlesque revue toward a recorded-music act, securing a contract with Interscope Records. The lineup alongside Sutta included Nicole Scherzinger, Kaya Jones, Melody Thornton, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, and Kimberley Wyatt. Their first album, PCD, arrived in late 2005 and surpassed three million copies sold in the United States, propelled by the pervasive success of its lead single “Don’t Cha.” The ensemble earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Performance and mounted an extensive world tour. Sutta later lent her voice to house producer Dave Audé’s “Make It Last” and DJ Paul van Dyk’s “White Lies,” both of which reached the upper reaches of the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The Pussycat Dolls issued their second album, Doll Domination, in 2008; its deluxe edition contained Sutta’s solo track “If I Was a Man.” Early in 2010 she left the group to focus on her own material. That ambition materialized with the 2010 single “I Wanna Be Bad,” followed quickly by “Good Boy” and “Jack in the Box.” In 2011 she teamed with Erick Morillo on “Pin Up Girl” and with Cedric Gervais on “Where Ever U Are.” She then signed with Hollywood Records, an imprint of Disney Music Group, and released “Show Me,” her first solo number-one hit on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Additional singles appeared in the ensuing years, among them another Dave Audé collaboration, “Gonna Get U.” In early 2016 she issued “Forever,” which received broad radio exposure and earned her the title of Number One Independent Artist on the Top 40 Radio Chart for four consecutive weeks. She next unveiled the mixtape Feline Resurrection, a collection of ideas originally slated for a full-length project. That album, I Say Yes, emerged in early 2017 and was fronted by the single “Forever.”
Singles
