Whitney Wolanin (pronounced WO-Lan-in), born June 29, 1990 (New York), is a singer and songwriter, who also plays piano and drums. Her father, Vincent, is a wealthy developer (Wolanin Companies Ltd.) who also started TopNotch Entertainment in the late 1980s.[LINK: http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/1998/02/02/tidbits.html] A long-distance goal, The Business Review, January 30, 1998 Whitney records for her father's label, TopNotch Records. Recording career Funkology Growing up in Florida, Wolanin first told her father of her desire to record an album when she was 11.[LINK: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/nov/03/star_horizon/?print] Star on the horizon, Jennifer Sutcliffe, Naples Daily News, November 3, 2006. When she was 13, her father relented, and over her summer break she recorded an album with her father's persona