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Rita Ora
12+ albums
popdancefemale vocalistsrnbbritish
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Rita Sahatçiu Ora, better known as Rita Ora, is a British-born Kosovar singer-songwriter from London, UK. Born in Prishtina, Kosovo in 1990, Ora's family moved to London where she was raised. According to the Hot Right Now Songfacts, Ora attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School during early adolescence; examples of other notable alumni to come from the theatre include Emma Bunton and Amy Winehouse. Her first UK exposure came after several collaborations with British singer Craig David. In 2009, she also auditioned for BBC talent competition 'Your Country Needs You' – to select the United Kingdom's entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest – but withdrew her application. In 2009, she signed a recording contract with Jay-Z's label Roc Nation and relocated to America. The How We Do (Party) Songfacts reports that when Ora visited Clear Channel with Jay-Z to present music and videos from her debut release, the executives were so enthused by what they heard that they organised for How We Do (Party) to be immediately premiered on DJ JJ's afternoon show on New York's top hit music station WHTZ (Z100). Her debut album ORA was released on 26th August, 2012. In December 2015, Ora filed a lawsuit against Roc Nation, seeking release from the label and citing that the contract she signed in 2008 is "unenforceable", due to California's "seven-year rule." The complaint stated that she's "only been permitted to release one album despite creating multiple additional records for release" and
