Shaya

Marianna Hansen (born 17 February 1983), known professionally as Shaya, is a Danish–Greek singer, of Guyanese and Indian descent. Shaya was a member of the girl band Hi-5, the result of the Greek version of the talent show Popstars. She is currently pursuing a solo career and finished fifth in Greece's version of Dancing on Ice.

Early life
Shaya was born in Denmark to a Danish father and a multiracial Guyanese mother of Greenlandic and Indian descent.The family moved to Sweden after her parents' divorce when she was 6. At the age of 12, Shaya and her family immigrated once more, settling in Thessaloniki, Greece.Although Shaya enjoyed singing and dancing from a young age, including performing with SambaSchools in Copenhagen Carnival, she became interested in becoming a singer by luck when she was persuaded to get on stage to sing a song with co-workers after work at a club she worked at in Kavala around age 18.

Studio albums

 * 2011: Resurrection