Jadyn Douglas

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title: "Jadyn Douglas" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1985-births", "living-people", "american-musicians-of-puerto-rican-descent", "hispanic-and-latino-american-actresses", "singers-from-san-juan,-puerto-rico", "puerto-rican-people-of-scottish-descent", "puerto-rican-telenovela-actresses", "singers-from-nashville,-tennessee", "21st-century-american-women-singers", "21st-century-american-singers"] description: "Puerto Rican singer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadyn_Douglas" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Puerto Rican singer ::

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Field	Value
name	Jadyn Douglas
birth_name	Joy Lynn Strand Pas
birth_date
birth_place	San Juan, Puerto Rico
alias	Jadyn Maria
occupation
years_active	2002–present
origin	Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
genre
label
associated_acts	Arten Way
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| name = Jadyn Douglas | birth_name = Joy Lynn Strand Pas | birth_date = | birth_place = San Juan, Puerto Rico | alias = Jadyn Maria | occupation = | years_active = 2002–present | origin = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | genre = | label = | associated_acts = Arten Way

Jadyn Douglas (previously known as Jadyn Maria; born April 20, 1985) is a Puerto Rican singer. At the age of seventeen, she was signed to EMI and later to Universal Motown in 2008, releasing a few singles to little commercial success. Douglas then started a country-pop trio with her sister (Jaclyn) and brother-in-law (Blake) in 2014 called Arten Way.

At the same time, she began taking roles as an actress and in 2015 was cast in a supporting role for Eva Longoria's Telenovela on NBC.

Life and career

Jadyn Douglas was born Joy Lynn Strand Pas in San Juan, Puerto Rico but grew up in Nashville, Tennessee from age two. She was the first daughter born to Southern Baptist pastor Dan Strand, and wife Rosa. after being spotted singing at a wedding. She later appeared on the debut album by former Christian band Avalon member Jody McBrayer. She was also asked to record a cover of "With or Without You" with hip-hop group GRITS on the U2 tribute album In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa.

After being spotted by an ad agency, Jadyn and one of her songs, "Rock You Senseless", were featured in Clairol's 2004 Herbal Essence campaign. She also appeared on What I Like About You as part of the campaign.

In 2007, Jadyn signed a songwriting deal with Universal Music Publishing Group, which led to her meeting with R&B musician Ne-Yo's manager and then Ne-Yo himself, eventually signing with his label and Universal Motown after auditioning for its president in 2008. One of her songs "Catwalk V-O-G-U-E" was featured on an episode of the reality series The Hills and later covered by German girl group Monrose.

Jadyn was married to her high school boyfriend, Chad Hiner. The couple later divorced. She is currently married to model Andre Douglas, and the couple have two children – twins, Legend and Eliana.

Under the name Jadyn Douglas she began taking acting jobs in 2011. In 2014, she launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a seven-song EP for her country-music band Arten Way, which is composed of her, her sister, and her brother-in-law.

Discography

Singles

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Year	Single
2002	"Never Alone” (with Jody McBrayer)
2004	"Rock You Senseless”
2009	"Good Girls Like Bad Boys" (featuring Flo Rida)
"Trenchcoat & Shades"
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Music videos

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Year	Single	Director
2009	"Good Girls Like Bad Boys"	Claire Carre
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Filmography

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	What I Like About You	Herbal Essence Auditioner Commercial	Season 3 Episode 5 – Split Ends
2014	Taxi Brooklyn	Vanessa (as Jadyn Douglas)	Episode 102 – Brooklyn Heights
2015	Telenovela	Roxy Rios	Main Role
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References

References

1. (October 7, 2009). "Micah Jesse Interview with Jadyn Maria". Micah Jesse.
2. (October 2010). "Official Bio". Compound Entertainment}} {{dead link.
3. (January 26, 2009). "Get to Know Jadyn Maria!". [[Seventeen (American magazine).
4. Rogers, Troy. "Living in a Man's World with Singer Jadyn Maria". The Deadbolt.
5. Perry, Clayton. (September 24, 2009). "Interview: Jadyn Maria – Singer and Songwriter". [[Blogcritics]].
6. (October 28, 2009). "Jadyn Maria is back, but not doing Christian Music". CMDish.
7. "WME".
8. "Trenchcoat & Shades (Album Version)".
9. "ARTEN WAY's 1st EP!!!". Kickstarter.
10. "Spotify".
11. "Spotify".
12. Gottlieb, Steven. (May 26, 2009). "BOOKED: Jadyn Maria f/ Flo Rida – Claire Carre, director". Video Static.

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