When she was 15, Ama was singing to herself on a platform at Hammersmith tube station, and was overheard by Kwame Kwaten, a producer at the FreakStreet record label.
10 Facts About Shola Ama
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At the age of 18, Shola Ama released her debut album Much Love.
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In May 1997, Shola Ama performed her single "You Might Need Somebody" at Wembley Stadium as part of the build-up to the rugby league Challenge Cup Final.
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In 2002, Shola Ama went back into the recording studio to record her third album, Supersonic.
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In 2004, Shola Ama featured on the track "You Should Really Know" by the Pirates, a response in song to Mario Winans' "I Don't Wanna Know" which reached No 8 on the UK chart.
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Shola Ama mentored her sister Sadie Shola Ama, who signed her own recording contract and released "So Sure" and "Fallin".
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Shola Ama featured on one of rapper Giggs' songs, "Cut Above the Rest", and later featured on the bonus disc to his album, Let Em Ave It, on a song called "Blow Em Away".
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In February 2010, Shola Ama joined a new collective group formed by Wiley called A-List, alongside her sister Sadie Shola Ama and grime musicians Roll Deep, Mz.
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In 2013, Shola Ama narrated on the show My Crazy Jamaican Life.
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In October 2015, Shola Ama released a new 8-track EP featuring new reggae influenced tracks titled Surreal on Necessary Mayhem Records, 13 years after her last album Supersonic in 2002.