20 Female Singers Born In 1996

The first on our list of female singers born in 1996 is Normani Hamilton who rose to fame after appearing in The X Factor. She is a successful singer & dancer.

Born in Atlanta, Normani first started as a member of the dancing and singing group called Fifth Harmony which had five members. Until their hiatus, they released a number of successful platinum-certified albums, and even then Normani had been performing as a solo artist. 

Her singles like Motivation (2019), Dancing with a Stranger (2019) and Love Lies (2018) released after her break from the juggernaut group has catapulted her career as a pop sensation. Her WildSide (feat. Cardi B) even made number one on Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart.

Normani has accepted she is an introvert, but when she is on the stage, performing her ballet with athletic dance moves, she has achieved a lot of breakthroughs in recent years. She is a rising star with a strong work ethic and confidence coming out with genuine pop singing and dancing experiments.

She is on her way to becoming like her personal stars Rihanna, Beyoncé, Ari, and Kelly Rowland. She is working on a full-length album to further her line of work. She has 1.9M subscribers on YouTube as of now writing this article and 7.2M followers on Instagram.

Florida-born singer-songwriter and dancer Lauren Jauregui was born in 1996 to Cuban parents. She was also a member of Fifth harmony and now is an eminent solo artist.

Like other members of the group, Lauren has embarked on a personal journey of self-discovery as an independent artist. Her 2021 EP Prelude has been a landmark in her career as a powerful songwriter able to bring complex emotions and difficult subjects to light. 

She is so conscious of her vulnerability and doing music for her is like a healing and spiritual process. Basically influenced by R&B, she wants her music to bring in more rhythms, electronica and instruments with varied harmonies, to follow her sensual husky voice. 

As she is deep in her introspection and intuition, through music, Lauren wants to reflect on what she is living and the community she is living in.

She has said in an interview that she handpicked the 7 songs for Prelude out of 50 that she wrote and composed with all dedicated soul, spirit and sensitivity. Besides this, her singles: Expectations (2018), More Than That (2019), and Lento (2020) are some of the songs that have been streamed millions of times on Spotify, where she has over 1.3M monthly listeners.

Through music or outside, she has been actively involved to speak up for political and human rights, social justice, and gender rights, especially LGBTQ+ rights, being herself an artist of bisexual identity.

R&B Singer Summer Walker born in Atlanta in 1996 had broken the record on the billboard with her debut album. Her sophomore album has also been critically successful.

In 2018 Walker released an album Last Day of Summer, and Girls Need Love from the album was re-released in remix ft. Drake, and it created quite a buzz. Her album Over It released the next year went on to become number two on the Billboard 200 chart while being platinum certified. As if not over with her success, her 2021 album Sill Over It, with 20 well-crafted songs came out more popular than before. 

Walker is a recipient of Soul Train Music Awards for Best New Artist and Album of the Year. Though she has openly admitted her social anxiety, she’s trying to open up more in recent years and has come a long way doing collaborations with popular singers like Usher, Justin Bieber, Cardi B and many others. 

She taught herself guitar by watching YouTube tutorials and has also done some odd jobs before she was a full-fledged musician. Her songs are full of love and truth, and also about womanhood and uncertainties. Walker likes to keep out of the glitz and wants to communicate in the language of music. 

She has received many glorifying nominations for her music, and despite the large fan following: around 5M on Instagram and over 18M monthly listeners, she has always been an introverted and humble soul who only finds herself really able to express in her music.

Texas-based rapper-singer Asian Doll had a difficult upbringing. Now she is one of those rap talents of Gen Z who has shown a vivid world perspective through music.

Her real name is Misharron Jermeisha Allen and she is also known as Asian Da Brat and is considered one of the gifted young talents. She started her career releasing Rise of Barbie Doll Gang in 2015 and since then she has been consistently producing singles and albums year in and year out, her latest being Let’s Do a Drill 2 (2023) which has 12 songs.

Asian Doll is very conscious of how difficult it is for female rappers especially rappers of color to be doing this kind of music. However, she has proved everyone wrong, who thought women cannot sing and rap as well as or better than male rappers in the business.

This is shown in, how she has featured and collaborated with so many noted rappers and hip-hop artists over the years, singing not just the same song, but songs that are from her own personal tracks.

She has been a subject of a social media beef, but fans have been on her side, especially knowing that she has already proved herself where she needs to prove it; the rest is just noise. She is also the first female artist to sign with the iconic record label 1071 Eskimo Records of Gucci Mane.

Asian Doll has produced more than half a dozen mixtapes like Drippin in Glo (2016), Project Princess Vol.1 (2016), Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2017) and others. She has seen enough of the “hood” life and street life, and growing as an artist she thinks her audience is growing along with her. 

She wants to give a real raw message to her young girl fans and wants to inspire them to be smart. Therefore, her bars are sharp and aggressive, and she has been touring and doing shows just like an established show-stopper getting her message right and loud. She has more than 286K Monthly listeners on Spotify as of now.

Alexa was born on Dec 9, 1996, in Oklahoma to a Russian-American father and a Korean-American mother. She is now an established K-pop singer based in South Korea.

Alexa, who took dance classes very early in her childhood, was a fervent K-pop fan from the beginning until she started as a K-pop artist. Now, she is creating a sensation in the K-Pop scene, who had only released her debut Bomb in 2019, which received millions of views. 

AleXa is interested to do more rock music and she has been performing multilingual songs for her American and Korean fans. What’s interesting is, she won American Song Contest in 2022 and has won Korean Awards as well for her music; therefore, she is winning on both English and Korean fronts. 

It was not easy for AleXa, who is born and raised in the US, to find her place in K-Pop, but it was something that was meant to be done; there was nothing that interested her much. And, surprisingly, in her initial attempts: whether to participate in contests or get social media following, everything was in her favor. 

After all, getting signed with prominent record Zanybros is a big deal, and it has even imagined an Avatar for AleXa who can cross time and space. 

AleXa’s Wonderland (2022) which won the song contest is her most successful song with over 9M views on YouTube. Her other singles: Tattoo (2020), Bombs (2019) have also views in millions. 

You can check albums: Decoherence (2020), Do or Die (2020) and EP: Girls Gone Vogue (2022), to discern AleXa’s multilingual talent, and her powerful dance moves that are just wild and surreal but real, that you’ll be blown away.

Born to Albanian parents in 1996 in Brooklyn Enisha Nikaj began her musical career doing cover songs. Getting a head start with covers, she began doing originals.

Nikaj never wanted to live an average life doing 9 to 5 jobs. Music had always been her dream and she wanted to live and follow her passion while she was still at college. She had no connection to the music industry, and she had to let her talent showcase itself. This is what she did by doing covers of famous artists like Adele, David Guetta, Justin Timberlake and Hozier, and it immediately brought her to the limelight. 

Now an established songstress, associated with Atlantic Records, Nikaj released her debut original Burn This Bridge in 2016. She had to prove her songwriting skills, and the debut song was a response to someone who ignored her musical abilities. 

Love Cycle(2020), Count My Blessings (2021), Just a Kiss (Muah) (2022) are some of her singles that have millions of streams on Spotify. With a mixture of international dance music and soulful pop, her songs have crossed borders, with their extraordinary chord progression. 

According to her fans, unlike others, her songs are not a skin show, it is just pure magic of voice. She has over 1.37M YouTube subscribers and 2.5M Instagram Followers.

Born in 1996, Danielle Bradbery had already won NBC’s The Voice, Season 4 in 2013 when she was just a teenager. Now she is an established country singer.

Texas-born Bradbery had signed her record deal when she was 16, but unlike other reality show winners, she didn’t go astray and into the shadows. She soon went on to perform her original singles and began touring with other artists, all because she wanted to do music all her career and seriously. 

Bradbery admits that her root is country music, and yet she is open to influences and experimenting with R&B, pop and hip-hop music. Smoky vocals of a songstress with post-classic country flavor – this is how her fans know her songs. 

She has been co-writing and collaborating with many musicians doing tours all over. Bradbery wants to lift up from her image as a winner of a reality show and through her subdued country-soul musical vibes she has been able to do so. She has been evolving rapidly as a performer and loves flexible songs suitable and relatable to a large number of listeners and their stories.

With her edgy music and forthrightly honest lyrics, Bradbery has been stepping into a new era of music every single time. She has released three albums: In Between: The Collection (2022), I Don’t Believe We’ve Met (2017), Danielle Bradbery (2013) to date. Stop Draggin’ Your Boots, Sway, Worth It are some of her songs from the albums which have attracted more than a million views. She has over 1.9M Spotify Monthly Listeners.

Popularly known for her roles in hit movies like Spiderman and Dune, Zendaya is also a singer. She had released an album self-titled Zendaya in 2013. 

Time Magazine had included Zendaya in its 2022 list of 100 Most Influential People. She started her formal acting career appearing in a Disney Channel sitcom and played her first feature film Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017. But, before the Marvel movie, she had already released her singles Swag It Out, Replay and Watch Me, which were topping the Billboard.  

Zendaya has collaborated with other artists and her electro-R&B single has also come as certified Platinum by RIAA. Her 2017 collaboration with Zac Effron to perform Rewrite the Stars has been hailed by fans and critics. Though some hiatus can be seen in her music career, she was already on her way to becoming a pop star before she became a movie star. 

Hailee Steinfeld is another singer and actress who was born in 1996. She has been able to balance both her busy acting career and personal musical quest. 

Steinfeld has let out Two EPs: Half Written Story (2020) and HAIZ (2016). Except these, she has released many singles: Coast (2022), Afterlife (2019), Most Girls (2017), Back to Life (2018) along with many other collaborations and album features. Her debut single Love Myself was a double platinum success. 

For Steinfeld, music has always been about personal discoveries that can speak for her and speak with others, reflect nostalgia, and also show the way forward. She has said in an interview that walking into a studio gives her a sense of peace and creative freedom, and a fresh perspective on the world around her. 

With her sheer talent, she has established herself both in movies and television and in the music industry. While others may believe that she is drifting away from her music career, she revitalizes it with new singles. Steinfeld has over 11.9M Spotify Monthly Listeners. 

27 years old, Washington-born Dove Cameron is a songstress and an actress with multiple awards and accolades. She has over 14.9M Monthly Listeners on Spotify. 

Cameron had begun her career in acting appearing in Disney Channel’s series and movies and at the same time contributing to the soundtracks. Cameron has won American Music Awards, Gold Derby Music Awards, and MTV Video Music Awards, and these are just a few in the long list of recognitions she has received so far.

Her Sultry Pop: Boyfriend was for 24 Weeks on the Billboard Chart. Her songs are alt-pop hits in the Pop Cultural scene and she likes retelling deeper emotional states and happenings in her lyrics. Over the years, she has metamorphosed both artistically and as an individual understanding her identity, embracing difficult challenges and facing her fears. She revealed her queer identity in 2022 and it has freed her from personal crisis, which she calls “traps.”
 
Her other hit Breakfast (2022) has over 78M streams on Spotify and is a song about women’s power over men. And the chorus is something like this:

I eat boys like you for breakfast
One by one hung on my necklace
And they’ll always be mine
It makes me feel alive

According to Cameron, being honest is the real key, and expressing one’s most vulnerable thing is what is universal to humans. And this is what helps to come out of self-doubt and fix oneself to self-belief.
 
Her discography includes EPs: Girl Like Me (2022), Singles: Bad Idea (2022), We Go Down Together (with Khalid) (2023), and work in the Descendants for Disney. She has Nearly 50M Followers on Instagram, and her Boyfriend video has over 50M views on YouTube.

Virginia-born singer Jamia began singing at a very early age as a child singer. She had already appeared on the national stage in 2002 when she was 6 years old.

In 2003, Jamia performed Michael Jackson’s song at Essence Awards. She acted in a biopic of a singer in 2004 establishing her singing talent. In response to that, the 2007 movie August Rush again gave her a chance to act as a major character who had to sing Raise it Up. 

For this performance, she was the youngest to receive an Oscar Nomination for Best Original Song, and she even performed the song at the Academy Award function, again making her the youngest to do so first. 

Now after all these years, her singing has become more refined with an ability to sing within a large range. Jamia released her EP Simply Jamia in 2017. She has over 22K followers on Instagram.

Chicago-born singer and actress Stefanie has rich filmography and discography amassed in her artistic output. When not acting she is composing and writing music. 

Stefanie has found herself comfortable in both niche – music and movies. A fan of horror movies, she has appeared in a number of them and has even won Young Artist Award for her performance.

She has happily said in an interview that when not on the set, she writes, composes, and plays music most of her time and it is what brings her to the present. Her discography has been applauded by the fans equally as her filmography.

Stefanie had released her EP: New Girl In Town in 2009 which was positively received by her fans. Besides this, she has worked on a number of singles: Break the Floor (2008), Girls I Used to Know (2011), FYI (2012) and I Wanna Let You Go (2014). She has worked alongside artists like Hilary Duff, Aurora Perrineau, Aubrey Peeples, Spencer Sutherland, Carlon Jeffery and many others featuring in their albums or music videos. 

Stefanie is dexterous Guitar and Ukulele player and skillful songwriter who single-handedly composes scores for her tracks.

Slayyyter is a Missouri-born pop singer whose chaotic club anthems really stand out. With no formal industry connection, Stan Twitter helped her launch a career.

Slayyyter’s collaboration with singer and producer Ayesha Erotica made way for hit 2018 singles like BFF, Hello Kitty, All I Want for Xxxmas. She used to work on ’80s lo-fi type music and pop has always been her favorite; it’s a lifelong genre she wants to stick to. 

Her music is full of aesthetics dealing with sexuality but also has a subtle meaning to it. This has racked up her praises from reputed music magazines like Rolling Stones and V, which is not easy in itself. 

She has always been interested in DIY pop music which she pursued after dropping out of college with a dream of crafting her own songs and music. Being a bisexual artist herself, she has written music for gays and all gender identities. Now her hyper-pop and club music often with lyrics with sexual elements and contagious lyrics have been enjoyed at parties and dance halls.

Her songs have complex vibes, with lots of personas and storyline arcs in recent days. She is so deep in her music that, she visualizes them and finds characters fitting the songs even while composing them. 

Some of her songs reflect her own identity and her struggle to find ways to deal with different kinds of emotions, and she thinks she might also do a lot of pop-punks and synth waves in the coming days. 

She may have been born out of the internet phenomenon of the Y2K, but her energetic and intrapersonal, explicit and songs with shades and contrasts are what has made her what she is now – close to a pop cult sensation born out of the underground. She has released two albums to date: Troubled Paradise (2021) and Slayyyter (2019) and has performed many singles of her own or with fellow artists. 

Born in 1996, Kaina is a singer-songwriter praised for her ability to create generational music exceeding boundaries. Her soulful R&B music is full of empathy.

Born to Guatemalan-Venezuelan parents, Kaina was born and grew up in vibrant Chicago with a diverse library of music and sounds playing all around. Kaina has exceptional songwriting skills, and her sharp and simple lyrics just stick to our heads. 

She is known for her meditative music that dwells on emotions, feelings and living, past and present, idyllically translating everything into a poetic experience.

Being a first-gen immigrant, she has seen the tribulations faced by Latin immigrants and especially those of color, and now she is translating them into songs of identity. Her songs cover large and visible topics to more visceral subjects of home, personality and identity, trauma, and songs of existential nature – but there is no lack of love songs too! 

Her voice and music hold everything together and provide a unique perspective, and like an alchemist, she turns them into the gold of empathy and emotions. 

A refined songstress, her songs have poetic rhythms and harmonies about them. Therefore, she is considered a compassionate and soulful artist by her interviewers, who can turn life into art. She has learned to be patient and keep her integrity and is trying to establish a better world for herself by letting it all out. 

She has recorded three albums: It was a Home (2022), Next to The Sun (2019) and many soothing and successful singles like La Luna, Could be a Curse, and Green. She has over 58K Monthly Listeners on Spotify.

Singer-songwriter and actress Anna Margaret was born in Louisiana in 1996. She is best known for her single tracks for the Disney Channel movie Starstruck.

Radio Disney regularly played Anna’s songs Something About the Sunshine (2010), New Boyfriend (2010) which she did for StarStruck. She also co-performed All Electric (2011) for another Disney Channel hit original series Shake It Up: Break It Down. 

Another one of her popular singles is Let It Snow (2009), which was part of the Christmas-themed EP All Wrapped Up Vol.2 by Hollywood Records which featured many other artists. Besides her music, she has also appeared in more than half a dozen movies and particularly known for her roles in Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017) and Cut Off (2018).

Anna has over 11K followers on Instagram and nearly 350K monthly listeners on Spotify as of March 2023.

Canadian-born singer-songwriter Alessia Cara had started by doing cover songs. She went on to become the first Canadian to win Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Her debut single Here has been streamed more than 530M times on Spotify to date and it had also achieved multi-platinum status on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was a major turn in her career after signing with a major record label in Canada. Her debut album Know-It-All (2015) was hugely successful, and one of its songs Here became an anthem for introverts. 

Her first album’s songs mostly dealt with coming of age, anxiety, romantic relationship, and other emotional transitions of growing up. Her upbeat music and jazzy vocals follow her lyrics penned with a lot of introspection, juxtaposing dark, light and colors of life, often coming out as a pop ballad or to give a message of philosophical crisis or of navigating through it. 

She thinks that artists are the vessels that connect people and songwriting and music for her have been a tool for self-healing or a way to escape, getting a way forward in life. She has said in her interview that it was very difficult for her to articulate her emotions before but now that she has grown as a more mature human being and artist at most, she wants to let out things of her experience for herself and for her listeners. 

She has more than 4.6M Instagram followers and in recent years, she has experimented with her music videos and thoughts that are poured into the songs, giving them a tinge of surreal elements as well. Her other albums include: In The Meantime (2021), This Summer: Live Off the Floor (2020), The Pains of Growing (2018), and a library of Singles. Scars To Your Beautiful and Stay are the most streamed songs of hers on Spotify. 

Pia Mia’s Do It Again Ft. Chris Brown and Tyga has more than half a billion views on YouTube. She is a model, author and actress too, but music is her forte.

Originally from Guam, she left her home for the hard-earned career and success where she is now – she is a multi-platinum artist. Her inspiration comes from day-to-day things, from movies she watches or books she reads, and she just lets things flow in and her creative instinct to work on the rest. 

She gets in the studio and captures the vibes and her moods before composing, and this has perfectly worked for her. For her music is the universal language to connect with people around her and the only thing that gives her a sense of completeness. 

Her singles like Princess (2020), Good Luck (2021) and EPs like Christmas (2021), My Love (2021) are her popular releases showcasing pop classics and dance anthems with strong stage presence and high pop vocals.
 
Born and raised on a small Island, Pia now wants to be outspoken through her music and wants to talk about sexuality, emotion and everything fearlessly. Also, she wants to show her roots through music which tends to be real and empathetic. This has earned her more than 9.4M followers on Instagram and 3.2M monthly listeners on Spotify.

Singer Tatiana Manaois began as a cover artist but started doing her originals after amassing fans on social media. She has exceptional songwriting skills.

California-born Tatiana is very well on guitars and has gifted soprano vocals which perfectly fit her lyrics. She has over 1.13M subscribers on YouTube as of March 2023 and has three full albums to her name: Love Diaries of an Introvert (2019), Lovely (2015) and Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Pain (2013). 

Her singles Helplessly, Like You and B.O.M.O have been streamed millions of times on Spotify. Her songs are best known for their catchy tune, exquisite lyrics and charming voice, and they are making it high on the Singer/Songwriter genre list. 

Like so many singers she too believes that she is making music to heal and to feel humane sentiments.  

Lourdes Leon born in 1996 is the eldest daughter of pop icon Madonna and she has followed in the footsteps of her mother. She is a successful fashion model too.

Louredes’s singer moniker is Lolahol and she wants to bring all aesthetics of her life into her music. She loved techno, lo-fi-pop and big room house music which she grew up listening to, but what she has produced is something completely different. 

Her debut single Lock&Key was released under the New York-based record label Chemical X, and it has more than a million views on YouTube. Lolahol or Lola has also recently released music videos: Giovanni’s Room, Purple Apple and Cuntradiction, and all are establishing her as a consummate artist. Lola has accepted that it is easy for her to sing as if she learned everything at home, surrounded by the performance perfection of her mother. 

Her songs have a drum-and-bass and trip-hop feel about them, especially because she was influenced by ’90s Goldie and Portishead’s music. Her surreal music videos and complex lyrics point that she has a genuine take on music. Lola’s unique whispery vocal is followed by bizarre instrumentation in her debut EP GO which has 5 songs in total. 

The last on our list of female singers born in 1996 is Abby Miller, who is a country singer from Ohio. Her music videos have been watched and shared by millions.

Her fans have called her a genuine artist, with a real passion for raw music, emanating out of her lyrics on all natures of love. Her song God Ain’t Done With Me (2021), released during the pandemic year, became a song of hope to come out of despair and depression, and also an inspirational song for young dreamers. 

Miller released her first album Abby Anne Miller (2019) which had 8 songs on love and lost love, and her comforting track Silverado is one of the most loved ones by the fans. Miller’s other singles like Back to Tennessee (2021), Girls and Guitars (2021) and Homesick Gypsy (2022) are also her fan favorites getting millions of views on social media.

She is teaming up with her local fellow artists to co-write and compose songs and is realizing her dream to take her music reach out to the world.