The film was a sleeper at the box office grossing $1,103,037. The album sold more than 113,000 copies in its first week and peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, surpassing Mya’s previous effort first-week sales. In 2014, "Lady Marmalade" was featured on the Huffington Post's Top 10 Most Iconic Grammys Performances. In the films, Mya portrayed the roles a latina lounge singer named Lola Martinez and Vern's Fiancee."

Mýa's musical influences include Sade Adu, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Chaka Khan, Minnie Riperton and Madonna.

As a popular performer, Mya would later draw from her experiences to speak to girls' groups as part of the "Secret of Self-Esteem" program for adolescents, addressing issues such as body image, peer pressure and gender stereotypes.

At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, "Lady Marmalade" was nominated for six moonmen, but it only won two for "Best Video from a Film" and "Video of the Year." On November 7, 2000, Interscope Records re-released "Fear of Flying" (due to the success of "Case of the Ex") with a revised tracklisting featuring two new songs "Again & Again" and ""Free" was even more pop-friendly and became quite successful on MTV's TRL and at pop radio. In interview with People, Mya revealed she draws her musical inspirations from humming a melody off the note of a whirring fan or tapping her foot to the rhythm of the bathtub dripping, stating she can hear melodies from natural sounds like birds chirping or the taxis & construction in Manhattan.

Mya would later star in the films "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights" (in 2004), "Shall We Dance?"

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine commented that Mya has a voice that is at once "Other critics often call her voice weak and thin. On September 29, 2009, she released her first mixtape "The first single from the mixtape "Show Me Somethin'" (featuring rapper Bun B) was sent to iTunes in August of 2009. The title was partially inspired by Erica Jong 1973 novel "Fear of Flying" which shared a lot of similarities toward female sexuality and development of second-wave feminism. Mya grew up in suburban Washington, DC.

She was also gearing up for the launch of a brand new single "Originally, the track was scheduled for release in late 2010, but it pushed back into next year. She is the first celebrity to be involved as a designer in The Koshie O.Woman project created by the African brand.

became a box office hit grossing $57,890,460 in the United States alone and $170,128,460 worldwide. White), portraying the role of Brian J. The song became Mya's first chart-topper and third non-consecutive top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She writes the majority of her own material for her studio albums.

Mýa was invited to be a featured guest vocalist on "We Are the World 25 for Haiti."

"Well, I started dancing when I was about four," Mya said, "and my mother put me into dancing school and I did every type of dance there is. The album earned Mýa a Soul Train Music Award nomination for "R&B/Soul Album – Female" and a UK MOBO nomination for Best "Album" in 2001.

"Moodring" stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for a mere eighteen non-consecutive weeks and went on to be certified gold, selling 589,000 copies to date. As a result of that, the album was never physically released anywhere except in Japan. It was released as the first single from the "Moulin Rouge!" She has two younger brothers named Chaz and Nijel. Sherman was a musician & a singer who performed with various bands in the Washington, DC area and Theresa worked as an accountant. On June 4, 1998, the single received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The album featured contributions from Rodney Jerkins, Swizz Beatz, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Knobody and Wyclef Jean. In 2006 and 2007, she collaborated with the Lifetime Television Network in the Stop Breast Cancer for Life campaign, recording the song "My Bra" which was sold onviTunes donating 100% of proceeds to breast cancer research. She continued her social efforts in 2010 by partnering with Cyndi Lauper's True Colors: Give A Damn" PSA, NOH8 campaign, NSAL 2010 & assisting in varrlious HAITI relief efforts, among other philanthropic initiatives.

Upon initial release, the album seemed to be suffering the dreaded sophomore slump. soundtrack and became a worldwide success, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks.

Select guests joined Mya for an exclusive evening of dancing and libations. Savion chose Mya for a solo spot in a dance performance at the Kennedy Center. She also appears in the game as the NSA agent sultry Bond girl "Mya Starling." Mya and then labelmate rapper Common recorded a cover version of Ed Harris' song "Real Compared To What." Her breakthrough single "Case of the Ex (Whatcha Gonna Do)" was listed at number 77 on Billboard's Top 100 Songs by Female Solo Artists (1955-2007). In 2005, Motorola signed Mya and eight other artists from every generation to appear in TV commercial; promoting its first iPod music phone; the Motorola rokr. She also cites Lena Horne and Liza Minnelli as her role models. Complex listed her at number 33 on their list of Top 100 "Hottest Female Singers of All Time."
Having worked on new material since mid-2007, she contracted with Japanese R&B label Manhattan Records (a division of Lexington Group) to release new material.