Tami Roman

Born Tamisha Akbar in Mount Vernon, New York to an African American mother and Puerto Rican father, Roman was raised as an only child in White Plains, New York. In 1993, she was cast on the second season of MTV's hit reality show The Real World, titled The Real World: Los Angeles. During the season, she was the first to have an abortion on reality television.

In 1993 during the time when Tami was on The Real World: Los Angeles, she formed her own R&B girl group quartet which at first she called Reality and also Tami herself was one of the four members and the rapper of the group as well. There was also at least one song written for the group, possibly by Tami herself and during that same time, the group signed a record contract with Mercury Records, and the name of the song was "Prisoner Of Your Love" but the producer that worked with them was, from what Tami stated that he was very difficult to work with, to please, and hard to satisfy. So they ended their collaboration with him and the song never got recorded. One year later in 1994 while still under contract with Mercury Records, Tami changed the group's name from Reality to Female and then the group was offered the opportunity to be one of the African-American girl groups in the song, Freedom for the motion picture soundtrack album, Panther. The song featured other R&B girl groups such as En Vogue, SWV, TLC, For Real, Xscape, Brownstone, Y?N-Vee, Changing Faces and several other groups like that. The song also featured many female African-American solo artists and female rappers. The second song the group was in on that soundtrack was a cover version of the hit song If I Were Your Woman by Gladys Knight and the Pips, only the group was the backing vocals while solo artist, Shanice was the lead vocal. The third and final song that Female was heard in on the soundtrack was also a cover version the legendary soul hit (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin. The names of the other three girls in the group were Monique Johnson, Donyell Floyd, and Carlett Martin. After the soundtrack, not much else was heard from the group again and they never released an album.

She married professional basketball player, Kenny Anderson, in 1994 and later divorced in 2001.[3] Roman gained more fame as she appeared as the dealer on the 2001 revival of Card Sharks, and on several other shows, including an episode of One on One (season 3, episode 4).

In 2010, Roman became one of the main cast members in the VH1 reality series Basketball Wives. She was then cast on the Basketball Wives spinoff Basketball Wives LA, starting with the fourth season in 2015. Roman appeared on two episodes of the CBS show Extant. Roman could also be heard on Tami Roman's Love Talk & Hot Jamz with advice columnist and rapper Willie D of the Geto Boys and Reggie Youngblood. The show aired on Houston's KCOH Radio. Roman and her boyfriend Reggie Youngblood appeared on Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars for its 3rd season, which premiered May 29, 2015. Roman is working on her hair and cosmetic lines.[4]

After Tami Roman released a series of videos titled "Bonnet Chronicles" on Instagram, it was produced into a scripted series on TIDAL in 2018.[5]

Roman and former husband Kenny Anderson were married from 1994 to 2001. Together they have two daughters, web-series personality Lyric Anderson and hip-hop artist Jazz Anderson. She married Reginald Youngblood in 2018, they eloped.[6]

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