Is a musician/recording artist. Her song "Driving You Crazy" was featured in an episode of "Dawson`s Creek" (1998), and she has performed as a soloist in the California leg of the Lilith Fair tour in 1995. Tia is also a Latin dance soloist.

Her brother is a jewelry designer

She sang the role of Lupe `the parrot` in the movie Paulie

Her mother was a beauty queen and her father does magic tricks

Her father, Val, is an insurance agent. He is an avid amateur golfer. In the 1970s he was a baseball coach at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her mother, Vickie, is a reflexologist.