Kwanza Jones is an American dance / pop singer and songwriter. She was born in Los Angeles, California and started her singing career when she was in college at Princeton University. She is currently signed to the independent label "Innovation Entertainment".\r \r Kwanza was born in Los Angeles , California on Thanksgiving Day . At the age of four Kwanza's family moved to the suburbs of Washington, DC where she spent her formative years playing flute , violin , piano and singing in the choir at her school and church. Her paternal great-grandmother played piano for famous blues singer Bessie Smith in the 1920s.\r She studied at Princeton University , in Princeton, New Jersey . At this time she was in an a cappella group, was a soloist in the gospel choir and was in an electronica band. She had a chance meeting with music legend Quincy Jones which got her interested in music as a profession.\r After her first album, she moved back to Los Angeles...