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Birth Name: Marianna Chantelle Hansen
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of Birth: 17 February, 1983
Ethnicity: Danish, Greenlandic Inuit, Guyanese [Indian, possibly African]
Shaya is a Danish-born Greek singer and dancer. She was a member of Greek pop girl group Hi-5. Marlain Angelides was also a member of the group.
Shaya was born in Denmark, to a Danish father, Vagn Holmquist Hansen, and a Guyanese mother, Lynette Jones, from Linden, who had been a DJ. Her mother is said to have Greenlandic and Indian ancestry. Her father’s middle name might imply Swedish ancestry.
She moved with her mother to Sweden at the age of six, after her parents divorced, and again to Thessaloniki, Greece, at age twelve.