| Celebrated Name: | Amara La Negra |
| Real Name/Full Name: | Diana Danelys de Los Santos |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | 31 years old |
| Birth Date: | 4 October 1990 |
| Birth Place: | Miami, Florida |
| Nationality: | American |
| Height: | 1.73m |
| Weight: | 68kg |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | In a relationship |
| Husband/Spouse (Name): | N/A |
| Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): | No |
| Dating/Boyfriend (Name): | Yes Emjay |
| Is Amara La Negra Lesbian? | No |
| Profession: | Actress, Dancer, Singer |
| Salary: | N/A |
| Net Worth in 2024: | $2 million |
| Last Updated: | January 2024 |
Amara La Negra is an American rapper, actress, and dancer who was born on 4 October 1990. She is famously known for her role in the reality show Love & Hip Hop Miami. After the show premiered, she received a multi-album record hours later with a BMG record label. She is also widely known for her music that criticizes racial and gender discrimination.
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Early Life & Biography
Diana Danelys de Los Santos, popularly known for her stage name Amara La Negra was born on 4 October 1990 in Miami, Florida, to a single mother, Ana Maria Oleaga. Amara’s mother had immigrated to the USA from the Dominic Republic. She worked in 5 jobs to support her daughter.
Amara graduated high school and attended college, where she enrolled for a mortuary Science course but later changed to Business Administration before she also dropped it to pursue her career in music. As a child, she faced a lot of discrimination due to her color.
Personal Life
Amara and Emjay started dating in April 2019, which she announced to the public through her Instagram account. He later moved in with her. Emjay is the brother to a Hip Hop artist Shay Johnson who also stars in Love & Hip Hop Miami. In March of 2024, she got confronted by Annie an Ex to Emjay who told her that Emjay would use her for her money than live her. After her conversation with Annie, Amara broke up with Emjay. He still lives in her house, and Amara says she is so happy that he supports her with her music even though they have broken up
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on 4 October 1990, Amara La Negra is 31 years old as of today’s date 2nd January 2024. Her height is 1.73m tall, and her weight is68 kg.
Career
Amara began her musical career on a Spanish show, Sabado Gigante, at the age of 4 and was the only dark-skinned girl on the cast of the show, which she featured for six years. After the show, she became a dancer to successful Latin artists Tito Puente and Celia Cruz. Amara later formed a group in her teenage years called Amara, but unfortunately, it did not last for long as they struggled to stay together.
She decided to retain the name Amara and later added La Negra, which means black girl in Spanish. The reason for adding La Negra was because many people kept labeling her as the dark girl in the group. In 2013, she released her first single AYY, which became an instant hit in the Latin industry, but she found it hard to get accepted in the industry because of her dark skin and Afro hair.
In 2018, Amara featured in the Television series Love & Hip-Hop Miami. The show recruited her because of her background story of Colour-ism and discrimination by the Latin community. Her story on the show brought a lot of media attention and gained a significant number of followers.
On the show, she got into an argument with a Latin light-skinned artist Young Hollywood after he had made fun of her Afro hair. Just after the show premiered, she received a multi-album deal with BMG, where she released two singles at the same time that is Insecure and What a Bam Bam. In March 2018, the song What A Bam Bam was rated eighth on Billboard’s Latin pop Digital song sales charts.
After releasing her first studio album Unstoppable, in 2019, Amara has performed in various shows such as Hispanic Heritage Awards, 2019 Premios Juventud, and BET live experience. In the same year, she featured in the films Fall Girls and Bendecidas.
Awards & Achievements
She received a multi-album deal with BMG, where she was labeled Breakout star of the TV show Love& Hip Hop Miami. She has also performed in many significant events in 2019, such as 2019 Hispanic Heritage Awards, Premio lo Nuestro 2019, 2019 Premios Juventud, and also co-hosted on the 2019 BET live experience.
Net worth & Salary of Amara La Negra in January 2024
As of ’January, Amara La Negra has an estimated net worth of over $2 million. She has earned this wealth from her successful career as an artist and as an actor.
Amara urges ladies always to be open-minded even when they get discriminated against over their looks. She says that a person should not change the way they look to fit society’s standards. She is the embodiment of today’s woman.