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 Zendaya's official site states that her name derives from the word, ""Tendayi,"" meaning ""give thanks"" in Shona (a Bantu language native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe). She also spent three years dancing with her former dance group called Future Shock Oakland. They danced such dances as Hip Hop and Hula

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