Was good friends with slain hip-hop MC Tupac Shakur and remains close
friends with his mother, Afeni Shakur.
Her father is the Reverend William Guy, pastor of the historic
Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother is
Jaye Rudolph of New Bedford, MA.
Became a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1981, at the
age of seventeen.