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AJ Michalka is an American singer, actor, and composer. Born Amanda Joy Michalka in Torrance, California, on April 10, 1991, she is a member of the musical duo Aly & AJ alongside her sibling, Aly Michalka. Her work spans pop music, electropop, and pop rock genres, and she has been associated with the record label Hollywood Records. Michalka began her career in 2002 and is recognized as a singer-songwriter who plays guitar, piano, and acoustic guitar.
She resides in Los Angeles and speaks English as her native language. Michalka is a Christian and has blond hair. Her professional contributions include acting and music composing. She is identified as a female artist within the United States music industry.
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Film & TV
Torrance, California, USA
Amanda Joy Michalka (born April 10, 1991) is an American actress, voice actress, singer, and musician. She is best known as one half of the musical duo Aly & AJ (briefly 78violet), alongside her sister Aly Michalka. She has appeared in films such as The Lovely Bones (2008), Secretariat (2010), Super 8 (2011), Grace Unplugged (2013), Weepah Way for Now (2015), and Support the Girls (2018).…
Known for
- Ray Donovan: The Movie — Young Abby2022
- Aly & AJ: Live at The Theatre at Ace Hotel — Self2021
- Joan of Arc on the Dancefloor — AJ2020
- The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self2019
- Schooled — Lainey Lewis2019
- Support the Girls — Krista2018
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power — Catra (voice)2018
- Apple of My Eye — Kai2017
- The Good Doctor — Nelly Dunn2017
- Battle of the Network Stars — Self2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1991
Discography
- It's Who You Are2010
Member of
- Aly & AJsince 2002
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 16,768
- Total plays
- 173,934
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Amanda Joy Michalka (born April 10, 1991), often credited as AJ, is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and instrumentalist. She used to be a model prior to becoming an actress, and is best known as one-half of the duo Aly & AJ (briefly known as 78violet) with her sister, Alyson Michalka. Michalka lived and grew up in Seattle, Washington and Southern California with her sister Alyson Michalka. Her mother, Carrie, is a musician and performed with JC Band. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
Key facts
- Born
- Amanda Joy Michalka , Torrance, California , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress musician singer songwriter
- Years active
- 2002–present
- Works
- Discography songs
- Relatives
- Aly Michalka (sister)
- Genres
- Pop pop rock indie pop synth-pop
- Labels
- Hollywood AWAL
- Member of
- Aly & AJ
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Aly & AJ
- Given name
- Joy
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Torrance
- Sibling
- Aly Michalka
- Occupation
- model
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Christianity
- Field of work
- music composing
- Hair colour
- blond hair
- Instrument
- electric guitar
- Record label
- Hollywood Records
- Image
- AJ Michalka - portrait 2019.jpg
- Height
- 168
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- AJ Michalka
- date of birth
- 1991-04-10
- member of
- Aly & AJ
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- birth name
- Amanda Joy Michalka
- partner in business or sport
- Aly Michalka
- writing language
- English language
- unmarried partner
- Joe Jonas
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Encyclopedic overview
AJ Michalka (/miːˈʃɑːkə/ mee-SHAH-kə;) is an American actress, musician and singer-songwriter who is best known as one half of the musical duo Aly & AJ (briefly 78violet), alongside her older sister Aly Michalka.
In addition to her music career, Michalka has appeared in films such as The Lovely Bones (2009), Secretariat (2010), Super 8 (2011), Grace Unplugged (2013), Weepah Way for Now (2015), and Support the Girls (2018). Michalka also starred in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs (2013–2023) and its spin-off series Schooled (2019–2020), and she voiced a lead role as Catra in the Netflix animated adventure series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018–2020).
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