The Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star was born Tammy Rivera Williams on July 30, 1986, in Baltimore, Maryland. While her mother is African-American, her father was originally from Puerto Rico but he moved to the states when he was a child of four with his parents. After he served in Vietnam when he was just 18, he returned and joined the activism towards making Puerto Rico an independent communist nation.
He was later sentenced to prison for seditious conspiracy among other things in relation to his nationalistic activities. He spent the next 30 years, because of which Tammy did not get to know him.
In 2016, Tammy Rivera revealed that she was only getting to know her father for the first time and she just realized how much he loved her, something her mother had been telling her for a long time.
In 2014, she joined Waka Flocka Flame who was then her boyfriend to appear on the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, which became the first thing that made her famous. She returned to Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta from 2016 to 2017 before coming back again not as a cast member, but as a guest. Since 2017, she has been on the drama anthology TV series, Tales, taking the role of Diamond.
Rivera went further than being just a reality TV star to also becoming a businesswoman in 2015 when she launched her fashion line under the name T Rivera. She created the line for women of all sizes and who are interested in good fashion.
Apart from reality TV, she also has a career as a singer. She released her first single, All These Kisses in 2007 followed by Only One in 2018. The two are later released in her 2018 Extended plays Fate. Her newest song, Sex With You was released in 2019.
