Rita Ora Bio

Rita Ora is a British artist and singer. Rita Sahatciu Ora was a British singer and songwriter born to Vera Bajraktari and Besnik Sahatciu in Pristina, Kosovo in 1990. Besim Sahatciu is her granddaughter. At age one, her family decided to move to the United Kingdom. She was raised in West London and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School in Earls Court, following which she graduated from Sylvia Young Theatre School and later St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College. She started singing in the early years of her life. In 2004, she was featured in the British film Spivs. She was invited to audition for Eurovision Your Country Needs You, a British contestant for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. However she walked out of the competition after only a few shows because she did not feel confident enough. The first release of Ora's music was in 2007, when she featured on Craig David's song "Awkward" and later in 2008 on "Where is Your Love" featuring Tinchy Stryder. She also appears in music videos. Ora began to sing in bars around London and in 2009 a A&R told Roc Nation about Ora, a few days after Ora took a flight to New York and met Jay-Z. In 2009, Ora made a cameo in Jay-Z's video of "Young Forever" and "Over" by Drake. Jay-Z saw Ora and then sat down to sign her up with Roc Nation. She was the subject of a commercial featuring Skullcandy Aviator Headphones. Her father Besnik was the owner of a pub, and she started her singing career in that same pub. She credits Gwen Stefani as a major influence in the way she conducts herself, as well as her band No Doubt's "Don't speak" (1996) is among her favourite songs.Her 2016 video for Tezenis, The Silk Code, is the title of the novel that won the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999.She was considered for the role of Iris West in Justice League (2017) before Kiersey Cymons was chosen as the character. She is friends with Kate Moss, and Ed Sheeran.