Read more about Tanya Sloan at: Wikipedia Official Site: Saban Tanya Sloan, originally named Kenya Sloan, is a fictional character and hero in the Power Rangers universe, appearing in the television series Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo. She is played by Nakia Burrise and is introduced as living with an African tribe while being the daughter of American explorers. She is also shown to celebrate Kwanzaa in the 1996 holiday season. She is the first Yellow Ranger with a female Sentai counterpart and, therefore, also the first to wear a skirt as part of her uniform. When the evil Master Vile reversed time and rendered all the Power Rangers as helpless children, five of them were sent through time to collect the fragments of the Zeo Crystal. The current Yellow Ranger, Aisha Campbell, traveled to Africa, where she encountered the young Tanya Sloan, who saved her from a lion. Though she found her Zeo subcrystal, Aisha wished to stay in Africa to help save the local animals from plague, so Tanya agreed to return to Angel Grove with the subcrystal in her place. When the five Zeo subcrystals were finally reunited, and Master Vile's tampering with time was undone, Tanya was reverted to a teenager along with the other Rangers. According to a November 1995 promo sheet for Alien Rangers/Power Rangers Zeo, Tanya's original name was Kenya. Being the most inexperienced of the group, she offered to pass the powers from Aisha's subcrystal over to Billy Cranston; however, he declined and Tanya became the Yellow Zeo Ranger. Tanya began her tour of duty as the newest member of the Power Rangers team while having to cope with the Machine Empire invasion as well as having her world turned upside down by entering Angel Grove as an orphan. Luckily, Tanya adapted quickly to her new lifestyle and began to learn martial arts from Tommy Oliver and Adam Park. To help her cope with her temporal displacement, Tanya lived with the Pink Zeo Ranger Katherine Hillard, who also helped Tanya enroll at Angel Grove High School. Tanya became interested in baseball player Shawn, who attempted to cheat on an algebra test before Tanya convinced him otherwise. However, the two eventually had a falling out leading Shawn to break up with Tanya, as she excelled at baseball and joined the Angel Grove High team as a pitcher. Shawn later showed jealousy at Tanya's friendship with Adam, but the two patched things up and remained friends. Tanya was also an excellent singer, and a music video that she created caught the eye of a talent scout, who offered her a recording contract. Tanya had to decline at the time, feeling that her Ranger duties were more important. Tommy later asked for Tanya's assistance as a vocal coach, at which point both were put under a spell by Queen Machina that forced the two to sing at all times.
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