SZA has received multiple accolades throughout her career, including an American Music Award, a Grammy Award, a Guild of Music Supervisors Award, and two awards from Billboard Women in Music, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Brit Award.
45 Facts About SZA
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SZA was raised as a Muslim and continues to follow Islam.
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SZA attended a Muslim prep school every day after her regular schooling.
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SZA eventually dropped out in her last semester, immediately taking on random jobs in order to make money.
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SZA first met members of Top Dawg Entertainment during the CMJ New Music Report in 2011, when her boyfriend's clothing company sponsored a show in which Kendrick Lamar was performing.
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On October 29,2012, SZA self-released her debut EP See.
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In October 2013, SZA went on a four show tour with Swedish band Little Dragon; starting on October 17 at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles and ending on October 24 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
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In December 2013, SZA released the song "Teen Spirit" which was followed by the release of a remix featuring American rapper 50 Cent, along with a music video directed by APlusFilmz.
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In 2014, SZA featured on a variety of songs from her label-mates albums including two songs for Isaiah Rashad's debut EP Cilvia Demo as well as featuring on Schoolboy Q's first album Oxymoron.
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SZA subsequently began recording her fourth EP, A In July 2014, SZA featured on Kitty Cash's single "Moodring".
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Later that month, SZA released a collaboration with Jill Scott called "Divinity".
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On July 11,2014, SZA released a video for her song "Julia" from Z In December SZA and The Internet supported Aiko's "Enter The Void" tour.
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On November 18,2014, SZA released a song called "Sobriety".
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In January 2017, SZA released "Drew Barrymore", the lead single from her upcoming album Ctrl.
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On June 9,2017, SZA released her debut album, Ctrl, to universal acclaim from music critics, scoring an 86 out of 100 rating on Metacritic.
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From August 20 to December 22,2017, SZA promoted the album on a North American concert tour.
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SZA opened for the European portion of Bryson Tiller's "Set It Off Tour" in support of his album True to Self from October 17,2017, to November 30,2017, separate from SZA's tour.
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Also in 2017, SZA worked on a joint album with Mark Ronson and Tame Impala.
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On November 28,2017, SZA received five Grammy nominations including one for Best New Artist.
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SZA received the most nominations of any female artist for the 2018 Awards and was the fourth most nominated artist in total.
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In January 2018, SZA featured with Kendrick Lamar on the track "All the Stars", which was released as the lead single to the soundtrack album of the film Black Panther.
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SZA collaborated with Cardi B on the track "I Do" for the album Invasion of Privacy.
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In May 2019, SZA featured on DJ Khaled's eleventh studio album, Father of Asahd, on the track "Just Us".
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In March 2020, SZA signed with WME for representation in all areas.
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SZA performed, together with artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi and Halsey, a benefit concert for the state of New Jersey, in support of the state's work fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On May 25,2020, SZA showed interest on Twitter in releasing "a music dump" of previously unreleased material, potentially containing 20 songs.
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SZA came back with her first release as a lead artist since 2017 on September 4,2020, with "Hit Different", featuring Ty Dolla Sign, and production from The Neptunes.
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On December 25,2020, SZA released "Good Days" on streaming platforms as a single after it originally debuted as a snippet in the outro of the "Hit Different" music video.
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In late 2021, SZA's cover of "The Anonymous Ones" was released.
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On December 3,2021, SZA released the song "I Hate U", after it went viral on TikTok; it was originally released exclusively on SoundCloud in August 2021.
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SZA confirmed after the 64th Annual Grammy Awards that she had finished her second album and is planning on releasing it "soon".
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On June 9,2022, SZA released a deluxe version of her debut studio album Ctrl to commemorate its 5-year anniversary.
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SZA teased another snippet of a song at the end of her new song's music video which she revealed to be called "Blind".
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On her 33rd birthday on November 8,2022, SZA released a teaser titled "PSA" on her Instagram.
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On November 30,2022, SZA posted the cover of her upcoming album SOS to her Instagram account.
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SZA is known as TDE's first female signee and first singer, which drew attention during the early stages of her career.
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SZA's songs are built over "layers of sliced, delayed, and reversed vocals" and contains "twists and mutates".
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SZA listens to Ella Fitzgerald for vocal influence, and has said that Lauryn Hill is one of her personal influences.
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SZA cites a wide range of musical artists as influences, including Meelah, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, LFO, Macy Gray, Common, Bjork, Jamiroquai, and "a lot of Wu, Nas, Mos Def, Hov".
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SZA spoke about Rihanna, admiring her strong and confident attitude, of someone who does only the music she wants to do, and that if there's anybody that she could imagine singing her words, it would be Rihanna.
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SZA has expressed admiration for singer Ashanti, citing her as a major inspiration and someone she's loved since childhood.
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SZA's hair became a point of interest during the early stages of her career and she discussed it in interviews with Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
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SZA has earned one American Music Award, one Billboard Music Award, two MTV Video Music Awards, two BET Awards, including Best New Artist in 2018, and received the "Rulebreaker Award" at the Billboard Women in Music event in 2018.
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SZA won the Soul Train Music Award for Best New Artist in 2017.
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In September 2022, SZA was applauded as one of the rising stars on the TIME100 Next List.