Jessie Malakouti
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| Birth name | Jessica Eden Malakouti |
| Also known as | Jessie Malakouti Jessie and The Toy Boys |
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March 30, 1989 Anaheim, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
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| Website | www |
Jessica Eden Malakouti (born March 30, 1989), better known by her stage name Eden xo (formerly Jessie and The Toy Boys) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
Eden grew up in a multicultural household. She is of Iranian descent on her father's side and Caucasian on her mother's side. Her older half siblings are half Mexican. Eden's father played harmonica and her mother would play church hymns on an antique upright piano in their house. As a young child, Eden first wrote songs by taking her poems and putting them to melodies on the family piano. When Malakouti was in the 5th grade she was cast as Wendy Darling in her elementary school's production of Peter Pan. Eden had a love for performing and writing music from an early age. When she was 12 years old, she would write and pre-rehearse raps at home then go to school the following day and battle other kids as though it was freestyle rap.
At age 16, Malakouti emancipated herself from her parents, graduated high school two years early, and moved to Hollywood to pursue her show business dreams.
Soon after arriving in Hollywood, Malakouti started an all-female band called Shut Up Stella, which signed with Epic Records in 2007. Shut Up Stella's music appeared in a variety of media between 2007–2008; "Watch Me Rain" was featured in MTV's Super Sweet 16: The Movie and "Welcome to My Party" appeared in the 2008 films Girl, Positive and Baby Mama. On March 27, 2008 Shut Up Stella was dropped by Epic and Malakouti decided to go solo.
In 2008, Malakouti's songs "Trash Me" and "Outsider" appeared in episodes of MTV's The Hills. The songs were also independently self-released as music videos and digital downloads.
In December 2008, Malakouti signed a publishing deal with EMI and spent two years in London working on dance music with Fred Falke as well as writing for UK production house Xenomania.
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