SZA Biography

SZA released her first EP titled ‘See.SZA.Run’ on October 29, 2012. The following year, she released her second EP titled ‘S’. The same year, she toured with the Swedish band Little Dragon. Also in 2013, she released a song titled "Teen Spirit". Then in 2014, the singer was featured on a variety of album songs by different artists. In March of that year, she released the single titled "Child's Play".

Soon after this, SZA came up with her EP titled ‘Z’ which was preceded by the lead single "Babylon”. On November 18, 2014, she released a song named "Sobriety". Around this time, she disclosed that her initially planned third EP ‘A’ would be released as a studio album instead. While working on her debut album, SZA also started writing songs for artists like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, and Beyoncé.

In June 2017, SZA’s debut album came out. This album, renamed ‘Ctrl,’ included hit singles like "Love Galore." In August, she collaborated with the rock band Maroon 5 to work on the band’s single "What Lovers Do". SZA then released the song "Quicksand" for HBO’s TV series ‘Insecure’.

In January 2018, SZA was featured on the song ‘All the Stars.’ This song was released as the lead track of the soundtrack album of the flick ‘Black Panther’.

She came with her second studio album ‘SOS’ in December 2022. The album opened to wide critical acclaim and reached number one on the Billboard 200. The album maintained its top spot for ten non-consecutive weeks, becoming the first R&B album to do so since Whitney Houston's 1987 album, ‘Whitney.’ It also became the longest-running female album of the decade to maintain a top spot on the Billboard 200.

SZA was born Solána Imani Rowe on November 8, 1990, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Her father is an African American Muslim who worked as an executive producer at CNN. Her mother is a Christian who served as an executive at AT&T. SZA has an older half-sister named Tiffany Daniels.

Besides attending a ‘regular school’ as a young girl, she also used to attend a "Muslim Prep-School" every day. She later studied at Columbia High School and went on to pursue a course in liberal arts at Essex County College. The exact details regarding SZA’s love and dating life are not known to the media. However, it is said that she was once in a relationship with Scott Sasso.