Birth name Ciara Princess Harris Born October 25, 1985 Origin Austin, Texas, United States Genre(s) R&B, pop, hip-hop, dance Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, actress Years active 2004–present   Ciara Princess Harris (born October 25, 1985) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B, hip-hop and pop singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer.

Ciara was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up in army bases in Germany, New York, California, Arizona and Nevada, since her father was in the United States Army. When her mother figured out that she wanted to pursue a career in music is when she picked her up from daycare, and sung every song that was played on the radio.

Ciara joined a girl group named 'Hearsay', which performed in Atlanta, but that group was short-lived.

In 2005 Ciara performed at a private, MTV-filmed birthday party for Tillander's teenage daughter and invited guests on May 27. Ciara Co-wrote the song 'Goodies' on her own. Destiny's Child was one of her early influences.

'Goodies' became a great hit, and is one of the top of the US R&B and pop charts, and also charting in the UK in January 2005. Goodies also reaching at number one position in the countries like Australia, Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand. In September 2004 Ciara with help from Pha, Garrett, and Lil Jon released her self-titled album. Which was listed in the Billboard 200 chart at third ranking, and it's over two million copies were sold in the US only.

Ciara released her DVD of music videos with behind the scenes footage of her rehearsals for the Soul Train Awards in 2005. She is featured as the second single from Bow Wow's 2005 for her album 'Like You', which right now very famous and is climbing the chart of success.