Creativity is in Doja Cat's blood. The Grammy winner's parents, Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer and Dumisani Dlamini, are also artists.
Sawyer is a painter and clothing designer, and Dlamini is a South African actor and dancer best known for his role in the 1992 film Sarafina! Alongside Whoopi Goldberg.
Sawyer and Dlamini had a brief romantic relationship in the 1990s before breaking up. Doja Cat (real name Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini) and her older brother, Raman Dalithando Dlamini, were raised by their mother in New York and California.