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Tammy Rivera is a television personality, singer, fashion designer, and professional business woman who is also known for being the wife of rapper, Waka Waka Flocka Flame.

Background

Tammy Rivera was born on July 30, 1986. She was born in Tappahannock, Virginia but was raised in Dallas, Texas. Rivera grew up without her father, Oscar Rivera as he was serving 30 years in prison. Tammy Rivera’s nationality is American but her ethnicity is black and Nicaraguan.

In a 2016 Instagram post, Rivera explained that she grew up without her father and he was not in her life due to his prison time. However, she mentioned that she finally began to get to know her father for the first time in her life and she posted a screenshot of a heartfelt message that her father wrote about her. Her message on Instagram was “It’s been a lil over a year now that I’ve been getting to know my father for the first time in my life! Never knew that this man loved me sooo much, even tho all my life my mother and other family would tell me how much he loved me and how I was his only child.”

Rivera also wrote that throughout her life her father believed that she resented him for not being at home but she explained to her followers that she always loved him and always planned to take care of him once he was released from prison, “For 30 years he sat in prison thinking I hated him or was angry at him and for 30 years all I thought was when I get in position. Ima make sure he wants for nothing in there and that he has the best lawyers. Well now that time his came. #MoneyOnHisBooksEveryMonth like clockwork #FREEOSCARRIVERA Just thought I’d share a piece of me with you.”

Television Star

Tammy had her first time in the limelight when she starred in the reality television show called Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. This television show is broadcasted by VH1, a cable network that belongs to Viacom Media Networks. The show started in 2012 and has aired for more than six seasons. Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta follows the lives of some elite women and men in Atlanta involved in the entertainment industry but has a specific focus on the hip hop industry. It covers the drama that goes on with their friends, children, families and coworkers.

Tammy starred as herself on the show for three seasons 2014-2017 in 59 episodes. She also was in the special edition episode, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: After Party Live! in 2015. Her presence in the show caught the eyes of the audience, gaining more viewers for the series. The producers of the reality series knew how to capitalize on her image and character.

Fashion Designer Career

In 2015, Rivera started a swimwear line called "T-Rivera". The T-Rivera website describes its clothing brand as "The swimwear line features all sizes for women taking a fashion forward approach. Its inspiring designs & patterns are cutting edge, yet constructed to hug all those delicious curves in the right way to beautifully accentuate the female body".

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It is a line of clothes made for women with curvy figures. The line wants to help these women dress with class and elegance. This premium clothes collection uses patterns, colors and mixed fabrics that are all beautifully combined.

Personal Life

Tammy Rivera became engaged to famed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">rapper</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Juaquin James Malphurs</a>, also known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka Flocka Flame</a> in 2013. Rivera married the rapper a year later on May 25, 2014.

On July 1, 2005, Tammy gave birth to her first child, a daughter that she named Charlie. Although <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka Flocka Flame</a> is not Charlie's biological father, he has helped raise her.

Being Married to a Mega Rapper

Tammy’s husband, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Juaquin James Malphurs</a>’ was born and raised in South Jamaica, Queens, New York. His mother is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дебра_Ентні">Debra Antney</a>, the Chief Executive Officer of Mizay Entertainment and former manager of <a href="/biography/gucci-mane">Radric Davis</a>, a famous <a href="/biography/gucci-mane">rapper</a> best known for his stage name <a href="/biography/gucci-mane">Gucci Mane</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka</a> moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and he still maintains his residence there.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka</a> started his career as a rap musician in 2008 and he is still working in the music industry. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Malphurs</a> received the nickname <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka</a> from a cousin of his. It seems like it was given because of the well-known catch phrase of beloved Muppet character, Fozzie the Bear. The catch phrase is a loud “Waka Waka”. It was his mentor <a href="/biography/gucci-mane">Gucci Mane</a>, who gave him the second part of what would become his stage name, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Flocka Flame</a>.

He became famous one year after starting his music career, when his single “O Let's Do It” went up in the United States Billboard Hot 100, ranking in the sixty-second position. A year later, he realized his first album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flockaveli">Flockaveli</a> was a great debut when it was ranked sixth in the United States Billboard 200.

In 2011, he collaborated with Canadian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(musician)">rapper</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(musician)">Aubrey Drake Graham</a>, best known for his stage name <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(musician)">Drake</a>. He announced his third album titled Flockaveli 2 would be released in 2013. The following year he released Re-Up, a mixtape. He has had a lot of milestones in his music career including a collab with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Whoo_Kid">DJ Whoo Kid</a>, whose birth name is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Whoo_Kid">Yves Mondesir</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka</a> was shot back in 2010 when he suffered a robbery and assault when he was at a car wash in Atlanta. He mourned for the suicide of his younger brother, Caodes Scott in 2013. His brother was also a rapper, known for his stage name KayO Redd. He was found in his house in Henry County, Atlanta. On another negative note for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka</a>, in 2011 his house was raided and he was booked for possession of hydrocodone, a firearm, and marijuana.

Aside from his music career, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Flocka_Flame">Waka</a> has also collaborated with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals when he participated in a boycott against the killing of animals and the use of fur. He posed nude for that cause to show how much he was dedicated to it.

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