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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Anhayla
Person · female · United States · Norfolk · born 1988
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1980s
Biography
English biography178 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1282228615
Biography
Anhayla Rene Stanley (born May 24, 1988), better known by her stage name Anhayla ( ahn-HAY-lah), is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She is known for covering popular R&B and hip hop songs presented on her YouTube channel, Anhaylarene. Anhayla was endorsed by Crafter guitars in 2013.
Early life
Anhayla was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and began singing at the age of 5. She started writing music on the piano in middle school and credits her mother as a being a musical influence. Anhayla attended Virginia Commonwealth University and studied accounting.
Career
In 2010, Anhayla participated in We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube edition). In 2013, she released an album If I Was.
Anhayla made her first national appearance in a 2015 AT&T commercial, singing Spaceship.
In a 2016 interview with NPR, Anhayla revealed that she has more than twenty inches of scars on her back as a result of a car accident. Her struggle with self-image lead her to organize Girls Nite Out, an annual event that encourages positivity and self-esteem for girls ages 5 to 18.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Anhayla head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anhayla_Rene_Stanley%2C_2014_%28cropped%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18763814genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18763814seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhaylabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhayla
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: mainerterrence · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q18763814 · MusicBrainz: 823b6bde-262c-4686-beeb-ace0815c626c
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