Pussycat Doll Kaya Jones baptizes, releases Christian music

By Milo Haskour –

Secretly, Kaya Jones was bleeding from the abortion onstage with the Pussycat Dolls. When a little girl pointed at her admiringly and said, “Mama, she’s a Pussycat Doll,” it was too much for Kaya. She knew she had to quit.

“I wasn’t in a girl group. I was in a prostitution ring,” Kaya says now that she has repented and is serving Jesus. “Oh and we happened to sing and be famous. While everyone who owned us made the money.”

Kaya Jones – whose real name is Chrystal Neria – quit the dream of music stardom and left behind all the times and ways she felt she was being pimped out. She never wanted to be a “pro ho,” somebody who sleeps with execs to move up in the industry.

Kaya was born in Toronto. Her mother was Jamaican and her father was American. Both parents had Jewish blood. They moved to Canada, but her father wasn’t allowed to work and soured and fell under “demonic interference,” Kaya says.

The couple split, and Mom, trying to carry the torch, worked while having her sister take care of little Kaya. An older cousin molested her from age 2 to 4. When Mom found out, she would have murdered him. But she restrained herself because she didn’t want to go to jail and thus not be able to be a mom for Kaya.

“By the time I was five, I experienced losing my father and then being violated severely and my family not wanting to accept it,” she says.

A sibling from Mom’s previous marriage older than Kaya by 20 years came into the picture and “adopted” the little girl and became a father for her.

Kaya got her first record deal at age 12. Funny fact: she went to the audition of a friend, who didn’t do so well. The judges like the way Kaya looked and asked her if she could sing. That led to a deal.

Eventually, she found herself working for R. Kelly. Years later she found out through his arrest and trial how R. Kelly was taking advantage of young girls, but Kaya says Robert never did anything to her. To the contrary, he was a demanding producer who pushed her to perform and sing and re-sing in the recording studio multiple times until she got it right.

“He was like a drill sergeant. I was picked up by car at 12 o’clock noon, and I was tracking the entire day until 2:00 a.m.,” Kaya says. R. Kelly “never smiled. He was stern. He had me doing jumping jacks in between a song because he wanted me to be ready to push. I remember we did one song 111 times till my throat actually was bleeding on my pillow the following morning.”

Because it was the only way to get a break from work, she picked up smoking. To fit in the the guys, she picked up drinking Scotch whisky. She was 14.

She was all-in because she was enamoured with the business. But back-breaking work rate began to bring disillusion.

When Aaliyah died in a plane crash, the producer stopped producing. The maid found him dehydrated and nearly dead in the closet. “He took it really, really hard,” Kaya says. “He loved her very much.”

With no production, Kaya and her mom eventually ran out of money in Chicago and became homeless. She found a way to get signed to another label – by changing her name. That’s when she picked up the stagename Kaya.

She became a Pussycat Doll. The girl group was a highly-produced team destined to stardom. They were also highly sexualized.

Kaya was getting flowers from celebrities. She was also given rides by executives who propositioned her. At first, the attention was flattering, then it was annoying. She felt that pressures were pimping. She had her boyfriends, by whom she got pregnant.

Producers prohibited her from showing belly bump because the pregnant look was antithetical to the group’s image, she says. Under pressure, she aborted twice. She’s had three abortions, all of which she regrets profoundly. She is now pro-life and counsels pregnant women to keep their kids.

The Pussycat Dolls were some singers, some dancers, some fitness freaks – and they all leaned on each other to cover weaknesses. Kaya was one of the true singers in the group.

One pregnancy led to her epiphany with the admiring girl who treated her like a hero when all she felt was like a fraud. She decided right then and there to get out.

She had been listening to celebrity pastor, Paula White, for years on the T.V. She made her statement of faith on an interview and suddenly found herself frozen out of work. She quit the Pussycat Dolls and tried to get into Christian music. It wasn’t an easy switch. One of her shocks was to find that Christian music carries a lot of the bad habits of secular music.

In 2019, Jason Crabb won the Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album for his album Unexpected, in which Kaya sang on the track “Let It Be Love.”

On May 23, 2021, she was baptized in Paula’s church, City of Destiny Church, in Apopka, Florida. She loved the lady who oozed love and spirit, but after attending for several years and serving in ministry, Kaya felt she was not getting fed. Finding a messianic Jewish rabbi, she remembered her Jewish roots and  attended his Bible college and follows more his ministry.

She is unmarried and has no kids.

Kaya just released a new album, The Royal Collection, with the single “Yeshua.”