Charisse Mills

Mills was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and moved with her mother Charmaine Mills to Queens, New York.^[5] She graduated from Manhattan School of Music.

In an interview with Vocab Magazine, Mills said her interest in opera music began in the eleventh grade. She won accolades performing through the New York State School Music Association.^[2] In 2011, Mills performed live at the 2011 NV Awards.^[5]

In 2015, R&B artist Ne-Yo featured Mills on "Integrity"” on his album Non-Fiction.^[6] Ne-Yo described her as contributing a "beautiful operatic melody" to the song "Integrity" that resulted from a freestyle session with her while recording. Mills' first single, "Champagne", was written by her, French Montana, Warren Zavala and Brandon Howard and features hip-hop artist French Montana.^[7] She currently has a single out "Drop A Bag" featuring Luce Cannon.

XXL magazine reported that Mills created her own genre of music with the combination of pop music and opera, called “pop’era.” In an interview with Soul Dynamic, Mills said she infused pop and opera to form "pop’era".^[1] Mills has performed opera and R&B at Lincoln Center, in Times Square, and performed for Jesse Jackson's seventieth birthday at Rainbow/PUSH.^[6] Mills, along with Charmaine Mills, is the co-founder of C. Moi apparel.^[8] C. Moi sponsored the Princess Project, providing custom-made prom dresses to underprivileged youth.^[9]