SZA Trivia | 40 facts about the singer

Solána Imani Rowe, known professionally as SZA, is an American singer and songwriter.

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1. Her full name is Solána Imani Rowe.
2. She was born on November 8th, 1989.
3. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio.
4. She’s known professionally as SZA.
5. She is an American singer and songwriter.
6. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
7. She began making music in the early 2010s, releasing two extended plays before signing with the hip hop record label Top Dawg Entertainment, through which she released Z (2014), her third EP and first retail release.
8. That same year, she co-wrote “Feeling Myself” with Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé.
9. In 2016, she was featured on Rihanna’s song “Consideration”.
10. SZA’s debut studio album, Ctrl (2017), was released to universal acclaim from music critics.
11. It debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200.
12. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
13. At the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, the album earned her four nominations, including Best New Artist. In 2020, it was placed on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
14. In August 2017, she was featured on Maroon 5’s Top 10 hit single “What Lovers Do”.
15. The next year, she collaborated with Kendrick Lamar to create the Top 10 single “All the Stars” for the Black Panther soundtrack, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Original Song.
16. In 2020, she released the single “Good Days”.
17. The following year saw the release of the singles “I Hate U” and Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More”, which she was featured on.
18. All three singles reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021, with the latter breaking the record for the longest-running all-female collaboration within the Top 10.
19. She earned a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
20. SZA also earned an additional Top 20 hit that year, as a featured artist on Summer Walker’s “No Love”, which peaked at number 13.
21. Her second album, SOS (2022), reached number-one on Billboard 200 chart.
22. SZA broke the record for the biggest streaming week ever for an R&B album.
23. Solána Imani Rowe was born in 1989 on November 8 in St. Louis, Missouri.
24. She was raised in Maplewood, New Jersey.
25. Her father was an executive producer at CNN, while her mother was an executive at AT&T.
26. Rowe has an older half-sister, Tiffany Daniels, and an older brother, Daniel, aka Manhattan, a rapper.
27. Her mother is Christian and her father is Muslim.
28. She was raised as a Muslim and continues to follow Islam.
29. She attended a Muslim prep school every day after her regular schooling.
30. However, due to the September 11 attacks, Rowe was subjected to bullying in 7th grade, leading her to stop wearing her hijab.
31. Rowe attended Columbia High School, where she was active in sports, including gymnastics and cheerleading.
32. After graduating from high school in 2008, Rowe later went to three separate colleges, finally settling at Delaware State University to study marine biology.
33. She eventually dropped out in her last semester; however, she immediately started taking on random jobs in order to make money.
34. Rowe formed her stage name from the Supreme Alphabet, taking influence from rapper RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
35. The last two letters in her name stand for Zig-Zag and Allah, while the first letter S can mean either savior or sovereign.
36. SZA transferred to four colleges, and the final college that she attended was Delaware State University, in which she majored in marine biology.
37. She failed her classes during her last semester and decided not to return because her music was the main focus.
38. She revealed that what she does to stay in shape is maintaining a no-sugar diet, not eating dairy or wheat, and she does Pilates and hiking.
39. Before SZA was famous, she weighed 200 pounds and felt more comfortable wearing baggy clothes instead of the skin-revealing clothes she wears today.
40. SZA doesn’t write songs down initially. She freestyles them off the top of her head. Then, she fine-tunes them later. She feels as if every time she writes a song down, it doesn’t come out great.