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Born in St. Louis and raised in Maplewood, NJ, genre-defying and Grammy award winning recording artist, Sza, released her major label debut album Ctrl in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A distinct force in contemporary R&B, SZA has set herself apart with a vulnerable and casually poetic song-writing style and a voice conveying a multitude of emotions with subtle twists and turns. She established herself with a trio of spaced-out EPs and collaborations with the likes of\u00a0Kendrick Lamar,\u00a0Nicki Minaj, and\u00a0Rihanna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ctrl<\/em>, the now RIAA-certified 3xPlatinum album received five Grammy nominations in 2018 and more than half the songs on\u202fCtrl\u202fare currently certified multi-Platinum and Gold.\u202fCtrl<\/em> remains on the\u202fBillboard 200\u202fchart since its release in 2017 and holds the record for the longest run for any Black female artist\u2019s debut album.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022 alone it sold over 600,000 units and is the 10th best-selling female album this year in the country and 50th best-selling album in 2022 overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SZA has won various awards since the release of\u202fCtrl, <\/em>including a 2022 GRAMMY Award for Best Pop Duo\/Group Performance for \u201cKiss Me More\u201d with Doja Cat<\/a>, Billboard Music Awards\u2019 Top R&B Female Artist, BET Awards\u2019 Best New Artist, BET Soul Train Awards\u2019 Best R&B\/Soul Female Artist and Best New Artist, MTV Video Music Awards\u2019 Best Visual Effects for the \u201cAll The Stars\u201d with Kendrick Lamar, and NAACP Image Awards\u2019 Outstanding New Artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SZA continues to set the standard on creativity and songwriting, while shattering records with over 7.2 billion streams worldwide across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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