Who is this? That was the most frequently asked question on our response platform NUjij when the American R&B singer SZA announced her two concerts in the Amsterdam Ziggo Dome. She has now completed her first show. She will give her second concert on Saturday. NU.nl informs you about the career of the Kill Bill-singer.
Als je naar haar wapenfeiten in de Nederlandse Top 40 kijkt, is het niet zo verrassend dat veel lezers nog niet van SZA gehoord hebben. Tot nu toe hebben vijf nummers van de zangeres in de lijst gestaan. Vier daarvan zijn samenwerkingen met andere artiesten. Alleen met Kill Bill heeft ze solo de lijst gehaald. Maar het nummer is hier niet verder dan de 28e plek gekomen. In de Single Top 100 blijft ze steken op de vijftiende plek.
De in New Jersey opgegroeide Solána Rowe, zoals SZA in het echt heet, is al zo’n vijftien jaar actief als zangeres. De 33-jarige artieste bracht eerst twee ep’s in eigen beheer uit, voordat ze een contract bij een platenmaatschappij kreeg. Daar verscheen in 2014 de ep Z, haar eerste officiële release. Dat in de muziekindustrie de verwachtingen rondom SZA hooggespannen zijn, blijkt wel uit het feit dat rappers als Kendrick Lamar en Chance The Rapper al meteen met haar samenwerkten.
De zangeres moet het sowieso van de samenwerkingen hebben om zichzelf de weg tot solosucces te banen. Zo schreef ze mee aan de hit Feeling Myself van Nicki Minaj en Beyoncé en Consideration van Rihanna. In het laatste nummer zong ze zelf ook een couplet mee. Ze pakte in de Verenigde Staten in 2017 haar eerste toptienhit met What Lovers Do, een samenwerking met de band Maroon 5. In 2018 volgde een tweede hit met All The Stars, een samenwerking met Kendrick Lamar. Het nummer is de soundtrack van de film Black Panther.
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Insecure SZA does not see success coming
In the meantime, things are going well for her solo. Her first full-length album Ctrl appeared in 2017 and made it to third place in the US chart. It turns out to be a long-winded album. wrote in February of this year The New York Times that Ctrl has now been in the album chart for 295 weeks, making it the second longest recorded R&B album by a female singer. The number one is ANTI from Rihanna, which SZA also contributed to: Consideration is on that album.
In the Billboard Hot 100, the official American hit list, things look a lot brighter for SZA than in the Netherlands. She has already been in the top hundred with 39 songs. Seven of them are top ten hits. Of Kill Bill she recently even took first place. Her album SOSwhich was published at the end of last year, was in the lead for no less than ten weeks in her home country.
The singer herself did not expect this success. SZA is struggling with considerable uncertainty, also when it comes to her music. In the run-up to the album, she threatened to quit her career several times. In an interview with Billboard she said on the day of the release that she would prefer to skip the event when her fans will hear the record for the first time. In fact, she would prefer to withdraw the entire album.
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Gold honest lyrics and first international tour
When she was about to release her second album at the end of last year, the same fears arose. Suddenly she found SOS boring and she was afraid that no one will like the record, she told Rolling Stone. That these fears are unfounded is evident from the ten weeks that the record is now leading the charts.
SZA worked on the record for five years. Her lyrics have become so personal because she wanted to prevent the creative process from getting boring. “I try to think of what I haven’t said yet and what I want to hide, and then I try to write that down,” she says. “Apparently making a fool of myself is the only way I don’t get bored.”
Given the success of the record and the international tour that followed, this method seems to have paid off. With her previous album, the singer only performed in the US, but now she travels the world. She will be in the Ziggo Dome for not one, but two evenings. “That’s very different from throwing music on streaming services and seeing people scream about it on Twitter. This is so much more humane and makes it all worth it.”
2023-06-02 03:14:00
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