Rita Ora
SeFi I---
Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Rita Sahatçiu
Birthplace Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia
Birth Date November 26, 1990
Ethnicity Balkan European
Overview Albanian
Nationality British, Kosovar
Career Singer, songwriter, actress
Color Season Dark Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Pe popstar
Gamma Sensualist
Pop star with Albanian heritage
SeFi I---
Ora: "If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?"
Ora: "I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind."
Ora: "Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too."
Ora: "I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost."
Ora: "To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?"
Ora: "I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music."
Ora: "I am committed to glamour."
Ora: "You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear."
Ora: "I'm scared of a lot of things."
Ora: "In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together."
Ora: "I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes."
Ora: "I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage."
Ora: "I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams."
Ora: "The public's not stupid."
Ora: "You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something."
Ora: "Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes."
Ora: "I'm just very good at pretending."
Ora: "I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut."
Ora: "When I was younger, I did my first audition at 'Eurovision.' I was about 17. After my first audition, I blacked out; I was just like, 'I can't do this.' I'm not knocking it or anything - it's been around for years. I'm just very, very happy I made that decision myself. I think that's one of the best decisions I've ever made."
Ora: "Every girl, without fail, loves to look at a sexy picture of herself."
Ora: "I used to wait in line for Jordans. That's how much of a freak I was."
Ora: "When you're involved with someone for a while, and they decided to express their feelings to the public - that's not my personal way of therapy, but I guess everyone takes split-ups differently."
Ora: "When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs."
Ora: "I've always been into looking different."
Ora: "'Glamour's always special to me; they gave me one of my first U.K. covers, and I was so excited when I found out I got a cover for it, so, I always, always have a special place in my heart for 'Glamour.'"
Ora: "I try to do one thing a day that makes me proud of myself."
Ora: "I love getting dressed up and glamorous for the red carpet. It makes me feel powerful and sexy!"
Ora: "I'm like a dude. Jordans are my favorite. I wear them all the time for shows. I can get girly-girly when I want to, but I can't perform in heels. I would bust my face open on stage, and we don't want that."
Ora: "Music expresses - you express yourself with music."
Ora: "I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me."
Ora: "I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want."
Ora: "To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward."
Ora: "I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'"
Ora: "One day I will settle down, when I have achieved everything I wanted."
Ora: "For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody."
Ora: "Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with."
Ora: "I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across."
Ora: "Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up."
Ora: "I don't get jealous - I get suspicious."
Ora: "I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie."
Ora: "Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?"
Ora: "Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight."
Ora: "I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent."
Ora: "Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet."
Ora: "One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor."