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Ana Gabriela Esmeralda Diaz Molina (born 7 June 1977, in Västerås) is a two-time Grammy-nominated artist, composer and music producer. Ana Diaz grew up with a Finnish-born mother and a Venezuela-born father in Bäckby, Västerås, where she early developed her interest in music. She attended music class at the Fryxellska school in Västerås. Ana's grandparents are from the Málaga province in Spain and lived as touring musicians and composers, including in Cuba together with legends such as Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong. In 2000, Diaz moved to the United States. After many years in Seattle and Detroit, she returned to Stockholm for a shorter period in 2004. There she studied music production in 2004–05 at Kulturama school and also participated in 2007 as an artist with the song "Waiting for Ben" on DN På stan's CD Pophopp 2007. Between 2007 and 2009, Diaz lived in Australia. After a period of much searching, odd jobs, and dealing with depression, Diaz decided to study to become a dentist. Days before she was to start studying, she was contracted as songwriter for the music publisher Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Diaz dropped out and began an intensive period as an international songwriter, in Stockholm, Nashville, London, Tokyo and Los Angeles. Ana Diaz has collaborated with and written songs for foreign artists such as Britney Spears, One Direction, Christina Grimmie, Wyclef Jean, Markus Schultz, David Guetta, Sounwave, Rami Yacoub, Fred Ball, Jennifer Lopez, William Orbit, As