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Sky Tonia Ferreira (born July 8, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. Ferreira's first EP, As If!, was released digitally on March 22, 2011. Her second EP, Ghost, was released on October 16, 2012 to generally positive reviews. Ferreira's "Everything Is Embarrassing" was named one of the best songs of 2012 by publications such as Pitchfork Media, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Spin, Fact, and New York. In 2013, Ferrei ... ra is scheduled to release her much-delayed debut album I'm Not Alright and will make her major motion picture debut in Eli Roth's The Green Inferno. Sky Tonia Ferreira was born on July 8, 1992, in Los Angeles. Ferreira is of Native American, Portuguese, and Brazilian descent. She sang gospel songs in church throughout her childhood. Ferreira grew up around family friend Michael Jackson, stating in an interview with BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat: "We just became friends with him. When I was born, I was raised around him, I always saw him. I had holidays with him and stuff like that." At age thirteen, she started taking opera lessons to refine her singing voice. She spent the next few years maintaining a Myspace profile where she uploaded various demos of self-written tracks. Shortly before her fifteenth birthday, she caught the attention of Swedish production duo Bloodshy & Avant by contacting them through the social networking site. The producers were impressed and subsequently decided to work with her. Ferreira is musically influenced by Madonna, Emma Bunton,[17] Michael Jackson, Prince, Blondie, Elton John, David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Meja, Lil' Kim,[18] Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani, Alice Cooper, Nancy Sinatra, and The Runaways. See more [+]