La'Shawntay Herring is a 21 year old Hip-Hop Artist from Grand Rapids, Michigan that goes by the stage name Calypso The Poet.

Growing up, she has had many interests but they've all revolved around one word. Art. Writing stories were her first love, then came dancing. With her parents being musical artists themselves, she picked up the ability to write and perform music.

Determined to make her future in the art industry possible, she spent her teenage and young adult years learning everything she could about making it happen on her own. She learned how to do things most mainstream artists her age never had the opportunity nor patience to learn like recording, marketing, and the importance of treating your brand like a business.

On Wattpad, a writing and reading app, she is known as Lala. She has written 3 books and goes by her Author name of Lala The Rose.

Iris Melanin, Tay-Tay Beauty, & Shawny Santana are names that describe La'Shawntay's other interests and characteristics like maintaining her natural coily hair, creating looks with make up, doing her own photoshoots, speaking out about issues in the black community, speaking about issues in the LGBTQ+ community, and expressing herself through fashion.

All together, these names spell out CLITS. See what we did there?