After "People From Above" Told Her To "Tuck" Her Ethnicity "Away," Dinah Jane Recalled The Struggle To Stay True To Herself During Her Fifth Harmony Days

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After forming connected the 2012 play of The X Factor, Fifth Harmony enjoyed wide occurrence with planetary tours, devoted fans, and high-charting albums. In 2016, "Work from Home" deed No. 4 connected the Hot 100, the archetypal clip a miss radical reached the apical 5 successful a decade, per Billboard.

But each that occurrence came astatine a cost. Dinah told BuzzFeed, "Coming from a miss group, we're each ace ethnic; we scope from each over. The assemblage ever perceived that I was Latina oregon Latina/Black."

"So, I was told from radical from supra to benignant of tuck a portion of myself away, being Polynesian, due to the fact that we travel from specified a tiny demographic. They were astir apt reasoning there's not overmuch of a marketplace of selling maine successful that lane."

The 27-year-old recalled the trouble successful "staying true" to herself. "After each the glitz and glamor, I'm coming home. Home to maine is surviving with my 25 household members, and what I'm consuming present astatine location is the world of my Polynesian [life.] We're each large connected family, large connected God. It was putting maine successful the mediate of picking and choosing who I was, this Hannah Montana effect."

It wasn't until she changed absorption successful 2020 that Dinah said she could dive into herself fully. Her astir caller album, Juice County: Volume 1, highlights her Polynesian individuality and incorporates instruments and sounds from her culture. The euphony video for "Ocean Song" feels similar a emotion missive to Pacific Islander women and highlights "the earthy quality to us, our hair, our color, our assemblage shape."

"Now that I'm an autarkic artist, I tin champion myself and say, 'I'm arrogant of you for taking the reins,' due to the fact that I didn't person that benignant of power erstwhile I was nether a label. So present I'm here, having the astir amusive I've ever had successful my vocation due to the fact that I'm capable to marque my radical proud," Dinah concluded.

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