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SZA
Nominations in five categories at the 2018 Grammy Awards confirmed SZA's arrival
as a new leader of modern-day R&B, laying the brickwork for a career that would
soon include chart-topping albums and more than a dozen multi-platinum singles.
Born as "Solána Imani Rowe" in St Louis, Missouri, on November 8, 1989, she was
raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, as an orthodox Muslim. She briefly studied
liberal arts in college but dropped out to concentrate on her music, adopting
the name SZA (partly in reference to fellow rapper RZA) along the way. With
homemade early recordings, she self...
