Khia was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, on November 8, 1977. Khia Shamone Chambers is her given name. Her country of origin is the United States of America. Khia is of African-American descent, and her zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Khia was raised by her father, who worked in Miami, and her mother, Carol Belinda Chambers, a data entry specialist who died in 2001, in a middle-class household in the Germantown district. She attended Dowdell Middle School and Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida, until she was 11 years old, when she went back to Germantown.
Khia, on the other hand, was expelled from Hillsborough in ninth grade and sent to an alternative school. She discovered that her career in the music industry was going well as she grew up, so she chose to pursue a profession as a rapper. She worked as a bartender at Club XS in Tampa, Florida, before becoming a rapper.