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Solána Imani Rowe, known professionally as SZA, is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her diaristic songwriting and genre explorations, she is regarded as a prominent figure in influencing contemporary R&B music and popularizing alternative R&B.

Early life and education
Solána Imani Rowe was born on November 8, 1989, in St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, with parents who are from the Southern United States. Her mother, Audrey, is a former executive at AT&T, and her father, Abdul, used to be a video producer at CNN. As a child, Rowe was affectionally nicknamed by her mother "Chickabee", derived from the film Nell (1994). Audrey is Christian, while Abdul is Muslim. Rowe's father would attend her mother's church for special occasions, while her mother would dress up for Jum'ah and accompany her father to the mosque. Rowe attended both Sunday school and Muslim school. Rowe wore a hijab during elementary and early middle school. Following the September 11 attacks, in her middle school years, she stopped wearing one for fears of Islamophobic bullying. She later attended Columbia High School, where she participated in the school's gymnastics and cheerleading teams, as well as its dance team dubbed the Special Dance Company. After graduating in 2008, Rowe enrolled in three different colleges before settling at Delaware State University to study marine biology. She dropped out in her final semester to focus on her music career and worked various jobs to support herself. After dropping out, Rowe often drank Malibu, smoked marijuana, and overslept daily. Rowe's stage name, SZA, was inspired by Nation of Islam, a Black nationalist religious movement. She took cues from the Supreme Alphabet, taking influence from rappers RZA and GZA of Wu-Tang Clan. The last two letters in her name stand for Zig-Zag and Allah, while the first letter S can mean either savior or sovereign. ==Career==
Career
2011–2014: Career beginnings and EPs SZA first met members of Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) during the CMJ New Music Report in 2011, when her boyfriend's clothing company sponsored a show in which Kendrick Lamar was performing. SZA's early music was shared with TDE president Terrence "Punch" Henderson, who was impressed by the quality of the material. SZA's early music was recorded with friends and neighbors; many of the beats were taken from the Internet. The extended play was met with positive reviews upon release. The Guardian commended the EP, its lyrical content and production, and compared it to the work of musicians like Drake and the Weeknd. SZA self-released her second EP, S, on April 10, 2013. It was positively received; Consequence of Sound thought that the "dreamy [and] warped [EP] manage[d] to exude confidence and fragility". SZA promoted the extended play with the release of a music video for the EP's lead single, "Ice.Moon". SZA and Punch stayed in contact, and after the former began garnering attention with the release of her two EPs, TDE signed her on July 14, 2013, making her the label's first female artist. In October 2013, SZA joined Swedish band Little Dragon for a four-show tour, beginning on October 17 at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles and concluding on October 24 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. That December, she released the song "Teen Spirit", which was later remixed with a guest verse from rapper 50 Cent. The remix was accompanied by a music video directed by APlusFilmz. Throughout 2014, SZA was featured on multiple tracks from her labelmates' projects, including two songs on Isaiah Rashad's debut EP, Cilvia Demo, and a collaboration on Schoolboy Q's debut album, Oxymoron. She followed up with the release of her third studio EP, Z, on April 8, led by the single "Babylon" featuring Lamar, which was accompanied by a music video directed by APlusFilmz. To promote the EP, SZA performed at several showcases during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Z marked SZA's chart debut in the UK, reaching number 32 on the R&B chart for the week ending April 19. In the US, the EP debuted at number 39 on the Billboard 200; it sold 6,980 copies in its first week and peaked at number nine on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Z acquired a small cult following online, gaining popularity within niche communities on Tumblr which contributed to her slow rise in popularity. By the end of the year, SZA opened for Jhené Aiko's Enter the Void Tour and Coldplay's Ghost Stories Tour. During 2014, SZA befriended record producer ThankGod4Cody during a time when he was working on music for Rashad. In 2015, she met another record producer, Carter Lang, via a chance encounter at a studio; they and ThankGod4Cody began a work relationship the same year, collaborating on an upcoming project by SZA. Work on it started back in 2014. As time passed, A slowly developed into SZA's debut album Ctrl. 2015–2018: Ctrl and breakthrough A release date was initially scheduled for late 2015. However, due to disputes with TDE and persistent feelings of anxiety fueled by her perfectionism, SZA had to rework the project multiple times. The label then postponed its release from 2015 to the start of 2016. One of its prospective songs, "TwoAM", was surprise-released through their SoundCloud account in May; it was eventually scrapped from the tracklist. A mid-2016 release date was planned for the project, only for it to be delayed again to November 8. With frustrations mounting due to TDE's postponements, SZA angrily announced on Twitter that she wanted to quit music. She later retracted her statement. While working on A, SZA was co-writing songs for other singers. Scott's "Ok Alright" in 2015, and Rihanna's "Consideration" in 2016. "Consideration" was going to be on A as a track called "LouAnne Johnson"; SZA deemed it the album's "centerpiece" and even had a music video filmed. Much to her disappointment, TDE had other plans, handing the song to Rihanna for her album Anti and making SZA a feature instead. Regardless, "Consideration" contributed to SZA's breakthrough, and she grew to appreciate the label's decision. Apart from Rihanna, SZA's other collaborators from 2014 to 2016 included her several labelmates like Lamar, Rashad, Ab-Soul, and Schoolboy Q. in August 2017 In 2017, SZA announced Ctrl as the new title for A; the official release was June 9 of that year. After she signed with RCA Records in April, the album was finally released as scheduled. In Ctrl, SZA continued to lean into her established alternative R&B sound, incorporating hints of alternative rock as well. To promote the album, SZA released five singles: "Drew Barrymore", "Love Galore" featuring Scott, "The Weekend", "Broken Clocks", and "Garden (Say It like Dat)". She also embarked on the international Ctrl the Tour, which ran from 2017 to 2018. Ctrl was universally acclaimed upon its release. Several publications included it on their 2017 year-end lists; the album topped Time ranking and placed at number two on Billboard, Pitchfork, and NPR's. In the US, Ctrl debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, sold 60,000 first-week units, Its run has lasted for over eight consecutive years. Furthermore, "The Weekend" and "Love Galore" peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. In 2018, SZA received her first five Grammy nominations due to her work on Ctrl, including Best New Artist. Although she was the most-nominated woman for that year, she did not win in any category. After Ctrl, SZA went on a series of song collaborations, two of which were her first Hot 100 top-tens. The first, "What Lovers Do" (2017) by Maroon 5, peaked at number nine; the second, "All the Stars" (2018) with Lamar, reached number seven. The latter was also her first top-ten in the UK, where it peaked at number five. "All the Stars" was released as the lead single from the soundtrack album of Black Panther. With it, SZA received her first film award nominations, like an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Critics' Choice Award for Best Song, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. At the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, "All the Stars" won Best Visual Effects. Elsewhere, SZA contributed to the second soundtrack for the television series Insecure with "Quicksand"; featured on the remix of Lorde's "Homemade Dynamite" from Melodrama (2017); and appeared on Cardi B's "I Do" from Invasion of Privacy (2018). 2019–2023: Collaborations and SOS SZA took five years to release her second album, SOS (2022). She became increasingly burned out the longer she worked on it. SZA was frequently unsatisfied and bored with the music she was writing, and she was worried about making sure her creative decisions for the album made sense. She considered quitting music again if critical reception of SOS were overwhelmingly negative. In a follow-up tweet, she mentioned that all he ever told her about releasing new music was "soon". This revealed that her relationship with her label had been hostile since the delays of her second album, which was last announced back in an interview in 2019. SZA continued her string of collaborations while she was working on SOS and hinting at its release. It gave SZA her first Grammy Award: one for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Many of the songs went viral on the social media application TikTok, which TDE leveraged for the album's promotional strategy. This series of singles began with the standalone "Hit Different" in September 2020, followed by the SOS lead single "Good Days" in December. "Good Days" peaked at number nine on the Hot 100, her first solo top-10 in the US. The second and third SOS singles, "I Hate U" (2021) and "Shirt" (2022), peaked at numbers 7 and 11. Their official releases happened after SZA shared their demo versions online and they went viral on TikTok. "I Hate U" was originally a SoundCloud-exclusive, uploaded alongside "Nightbird" and "Joni" at the advice of SZA's astrologer. Before becoming a single, "Shirt" was teased via snippets since late 2020. In 2022, SZA released a deluxe edition of Ctrl to celebrate its five-year anniversary. The deluxe version consisted of seven scrapped outtakes, including "TwoAM" (now spelled "2AM"). Later in November, SZA posted the teaser for SOS on social media. The video, soundtracked to her then-unreleased "PSA", hinted at the album's title by playing its corresponding Morse code. The standard version of SOS was released on December 9 to widespread acclaim. Critics agreed that it surpassed expectations that arose from the years-long wait. SOS was a multi-genre work; it was a product of SZA's desire to prove her versatility, after the media had consistently called her an R&B artist. With the album, SZA combined R&B with a variety of genres like rap, rock, and pop. SOS was a huge commercial success. It spent over ten weeks atop the Billboard 200, was the second most-streamed album of 2023 globally, and set a diverse array of chart records. The album surpassed Adele's 21 and Michael Jackson's Thriller as the longest-running US top-10 by, respectively, a woman and a Black artist. Following its release, SOS spawned three more singles: "Nobody Gets Me", "Kill Bill", and "Snooze". "Kill Bill" topped the Billboard Hot 100 and was the third best-selling single of 2023, accruing 1.84 billion units worldwide based on streams and digital sales. At the 2024 Grammy Awards, where SZA was the most-nominated artist, SOS and "Snooze" won Best Progressive R&B Album and Best R&B Song, respectively. From 2023 to 2024, SZA embarked on the SOS Tour to promote the album. In September 2023, SZA performed at an invite-only show in Brooklyn Navy Yard to celebrate the success of SOS. Included in the set were "PSA" alongside three other unreleased songs: "Saturn", "Diamond Boy (DTM)", and "BMF". That same month, she featured on Drake's "Slime You Out", which became her second US Billboard Hot 100 number-one. In November, she stated to Variety that Lana was not a conventional deluxe edition, but virtually a new album with a tracklist that was continuously expanding. Many of the songs were newly recorded pieces of music; others were outtakes from SOS. 2024–present: Lana and Grand National Tour Variety and Time magazines listed Lana as one of the most anticipated albums of 2024. SZA announced in November via a livestream by Twitch entertainer Kai Cenat that the album would be out by the end of the year. It was released on December 20, 2024, and rereleased with four more tracks on February 9 of the following year. The standard edition of Lana was preceded by the lead single "Saturn", which she debuted at the 2024 Grammy Awards and which won Best R&B Song at the next ceremony. It peaked at number six on the Hot 100, her tenth top-10 on the chart. The reissue's updated version featured "PSA" and "Joni", the latter of which had leaked back in 2023. After the rerelease, SOS returned to the top of the Billboard 200 for its eleventh and twelfth weeks at number one. Its last week at number one was in early 2023, making SOS the album with the longest time between weeks atop the chart. In August, the album reached its 100th week in the Billboard 200 top 10, the first by a woman to do so. In November 2024, Lamar, who had left TDE back in 2022, released his sixth studio album GNX. SZA appeared on two songs, the third track "Luther" and the closing track "Gloria". In support of GNX and Lana, the duo embarked on the Grand National Tour starting in April 2025, breaking the record for the highest-grossing co-headlining tour. SOS topped the Billboard 200 a week after the first show, which marked the album's thirteenth week at number one. Prior to the Grand National Tour, SZA appeared alongside Lamar in his performance for the Super Bowl LIX halftime show, duetting some of their collaborations. Following this, "30 for 30" reached a new peak of number 10 on the Hot 100, despite not being part of the set list. The week after, "Luther" began a consecutive 13-week run atop the Hot 100 and became SZA's longest-running number-one in the US. Outside music, SZA ventured into other creative projects in 2025, beginning work on cosmetic and fashion products. During the Grand National Tour, she launched Not Beauty, a line of lip products available exclusively in pop-up stores at concert venues. She was announced as the first artistic director of shoe company Vans, and she is set to collaborate with them on exclusive fashion collections. In television and film, SZA appeared as a guest in the 55th season of Sesame Street and co-starred alongside Keke Palmer in the buddy comedy film One of Them Days (2025). Several critics praised the synergy between SZA and Palmer, and 93% of the 106 reviews from critics from Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a positive review. SZA began teasing new music during the latter half of 2025; some songs would presumably appear on her third album. In August, she posted snippets of unreleased tracks on an alternate Instagram account . One of them was titled named "Let You Know", an R&B track with an airy soundscape. SZA told GQ the titles of three other songs"Passenger Princess", "Burgers", and "Yearner"in an interview with the magazine during November. "Take Me Dancing" by Doja Cat, and "PT Cruiser" by Nigerian-American rapper Moruf. SZA revealed in an interview with i-D, she and American musician Steve Lacy made "a little project" together. ==Artistry ==
Artistry
Influences Growing up, SZA was exposed by her family to artists from different genres, which were formative influences for her music. Her mother enjoyed R&B and church music, her father was a fan of jazz and funk musicians like Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane, and has said that Lauryn Hill is one of her personal influences. SZA also cites Meelah, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, LFO, Macy Gray, Common, Björk, Jamiroquai, and "a lot of Wu, Nas, Mos Def, Hov" as inspirations. In an interview for Live Nation Entertainment, SZA described the meeting she had with Beyoncé for the writing of "Feeling Myself", affirming "Beyoncé might be the most perfect, beautiful being I've ever met in my whole life. She's the most inspirational woman on earth, next to my mother". SZA also expressed admiration for Rihanna, praising her strong and confident attitude and her commitment to creating only the music she truly wants to make. SZA is known for referencing films and television series across her discography. She has named multiple songs after actresses or the characters they play. "Drew Barrymore" was named after and inspired by the actress, "Jodie" was named after Jodie Foster, and "Go Gina" is a reference to Tisha Campbell's role of Gina on the sitcom Martin (1992–1997). Throughout SOS, SZA incorporates numerous film references in both song titles and lyrics: she named "Kill Bill" after the 2003–2004 film duology; in "Blind", she references Julia Stiles in Save the Last Dance (2001); in the song "Used", SZA makes a reference to Obi-Wan, the Jedi Master from Star Wars; and "Smoking on My Ex Pack" contains a comparison between SZA's former romantic partners and Sideshow Bob, a character from The Simpsons who is both a clown and a criminal. "Scorsese Baby Daddy", from Lana, is a reference to filmmaker and director Martin Scorsese. Music Genre Critics have frequently described SZA as an R&B and hip-hop singer-songwriter, a narrative for which she has expressed disdain since the beginning of her career. In 2014, when she uploaded the single "Teen Spirit" on SoundCloud, she tagged the song with the categories "Glitter Trap" and "Not R&B". She considers it a byproduct of the racist segregation of Black artists from White artists during the 20th century, which industry professionals did by relegating Black people to R&B categories. Outside of R&B, critics have also written that several of her works combine the genre with hip-hop or pop music. SOS producer Jay Versace stated that songs like "Smoking on My Ex Pack" were inspired by rap songs that he heard growing up, adding "I wanted to hear her either singing or rapping on. That was specifically for her." Regardless, SZA has expressed confusion about the media's attempts to categorize her. She prefers to be seen as simply someone who makes music and nothing more, saying, "when you try to label it, you remove the option for it to be limitless. It diminishes the music." "Genre agnosticism" was how Michael Madden of Consequence described SZA's musical style. Voice According to Rolling Stones Marissa G. Muller, SZA's voice alternates between a "vapory husk and a sky-high falsetto". Jordan Sargent, in a Pitchfork review of Z, describes her vocals as "chillwave" and "ethereal". Her vocal style has been described as taking on the "lilt" of a jazz singer. SZA has a slight speech impediment, which influences her delivery. Her fans treat it as a running joke, saying that she sings in "cursive and italics". However, journalist Mankaprr Conteh argues that SZA's enunciation began to be clearer with SOS. Conteh adds that nevertheless, "her words retain the swirls and curves that can make them run together and occasionally become alluringly hard to decipher." Songwriting Writing process SZA sees songwriting as a way of proving her self-worth. She personally considers her songwriting awards as her most important achievements, having started her career without anyone to write for her. An enjoyer of poetry, SZA began writing songs due to her passion about the hobby. SZA also thinks of songwriting as a form of self-therapy, using it to record and resolve her struggles. However, when she tries to draw from her experiences and emotions, the weight of the pain can be too much to bear. She sometimes writes from the perspective of other people; due to her tendency to self-deprecate, SZA sees the writing technique as a way to "say nicer things about [herself]". For example, "Joni" (2025)a song about being resilient and achieving perfection amid the difficulties of lifewas written from the perspective of Canadian musician Joni Mitchell. SZA's other muses include singer-songwriter Frank Ocean and rapper Future. Analyses SZA's writing style, as noted by Mesfin Fekadu in a review for The Hollywood Reporter, often takes a vulnerable, confessional, and reflective tone. She explores many common fears among adolescents and young adults, such as living up to beauty standards or grappling with being in one's 20s. Much of her music is about heartbreak, nostalgia, abandonment, and self-worth. Sydney Gore of Alternative Press writes that "whereas hypersexuality gives some people the ick, SZA's unfiltered canon of raw feelings seemingly makes others squirm because the level of vulnerability she exudes is too painfully real." As her career evolved past Ctrl, her writing had become more aggressive, unafraid to show her competitiveness and "not a nice girl" attitude. and she has been dubbed the girl next door of R&B. Many have also spoken about her songwriting's relatability—mainly due to its exploration of insecurity—to other Black women. Billboard journalists wrote that her style of self-deprecation was effective in gaining a devoted audience of "awkward" and anxious Black girls, reflecting the distinct shame they experience in their dating life due to misogynoir. Elle journalist DeAsia Paige argues that SZA encourages such girls to embrace their insecurities—and defy expectations of being independent women—"in a world that relentlessly picks them apart" as a result of their race. When SZA spoke about how Barrymore inspired the eponymous song, she said that she grew up not seeing herself represented enough in media like television series. Heran Mamo of Billboard writes that they are the "ultimate rapper-singer duo", and HipHopDX Andy Bustard comments that they are the best such duo of their time. Dubbed by SZA as her "sensei", He and SZA have three top-ten singles: "All the Stars" in 2018, the US number one "Luther" in 2024, Many other artists have worked with SZA multiple times. One of her earliest collaborators was rapper Mac Miller, who produced two songs from Z. She first met him when she moved to Los Angeles in 2014. once considered starting a rock band. The two co-wrote "F2F" from SOS when the idea first came to them. In 2023, Lizzo released a remix of "Special" featuring SZA, and she was originally going to be a feature on "BMF". Apart from singers and rappers, there are select producers with whom SZA often works. Two of them, Carter Lang and ThankGod4Cody, have produced several of her songs from Ctrl, SOS, and Lana. Norma Rowe, SZA's deceased maternal grandmother, appears via sampled voice recordings on Ctrl and SOS. Rowe affectionally calls her "Granny", and she is credited as such on both albums. Writing for Vulture, journalist Zach Schonfeld ranked Rowe as the fourth-best mother to appear on their child or grandchild's songs. He gave her a "wholesome index" of eight out of ten. Along with her music, SZA's image has been compared to neo-soul artists Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu. SZA's hair became a point of interest during the early stages of her career and she discussed it in interviews with Vogue and ''Harper's Bazaar''. During her performances, SZA tends to wear "free-flowing" clothes that are easy to move around in and wears pajamas or baggy clothing onstage. == Reception and legacy ==
Reception and legacy
Several critics and musicians credit SZA with significantly influencing the state of contemporary R&B. Some wrote that she was instrumental in bringing the genre, which had peaked in the late 20th century and declined with the rise of hip-hop, into the mainstream again. BET's Khalilah Archie wrote that SZA embodied an important shift for the genremaking vulnerable lyrics a more prominent staple of R&B music. Many of her contemporaries like Summer Walker, Tink, and Ari Lennox have been influenced by her songwriting; Baby Rose described her as "a radical light". SZA's debut album has been credited in numerous retrospectives as not only propelling her to mainstream success, but also shaping the sound of R&B. Williams highlighted the album's lasting influence, noting that even six years after its release, its impact continues to shape a "new generation of young, bright artists". In 2025, Billboard ranked SZA as the 44th-greatest R&B musician of all time. Staff writer Heran Mamo wrote that SZA was proof that "artists with an R&B foundation [...] can successfully break through the genre's borders and ascend into pop's upper echelon". Rolling Stone, meanwhile, put SZA at number 180 on their 2023 list of the 200 greatest singers. == Public image and views ==
Public image and views
Social media use SZA has a strong online presence. Early in her career, she was very active on the social media site Tumblr, where many people discovered her EPs and contributed to her rise to fame. On Instagram, SZA posts Reels and Stories and releases teasers or snippets of upcoming works. Her songs often go viral on TikTok, which she uses to her advantage when promoting music. Music leaks Many of SZA's unreleased songs have been leaked online, which she has openly criticized, stating, "When people leak my songs, they ruin them". She feels that when a song is leaked, it no longer belongs to her but to the public, describing it as "something unfinished that you decided was ready to be shared". In December 2018, SZA faced her first major leak when a nine-track unreleased album titled Comethru was distributed through a label called Scissor. On the album, SZA was credited as "Sister Solana", while Lamar made a guest appearance under the name "King Kenny". In January 2024, SZA warned that she may pursue legal action against those who release her music without permission, stating that she promised to hold them accountable as much as the law allows. In March 2024, SZA addressed a fan on Twitter who leaked unreleased images and audio, and later deleted and deactivated her accounts before RCA could take action. Punch noted that leaks frequently result in project delays or complete cancellations. Philanthropy and activism Part of SZA's philanthropy is advocating for environmental justice and spreading awareness about the climate crisis. Following Hurricane Harvey in 2017, SZA invited fans to spend time with her after Ctrl the Tour in exchange for donating essential items such as non-perishable food, diapers, gloves, masks, trash bags, and baby food. In 2019, a fan of SZA diagnosed with lupus, sickle cell disease, and Crohn's disease shared on social media that she had contributed financially toward her chemotherapy treatments and used her platform to help find a kidney donor. That same year, SZA launched a merchandise line called Ctrl Fishing Company, which included apparel featuring phrases such as "Puck Flastic" and "Sustainability Gang", as well as sea animals like blue whales and seahorses. SZA has also advocated for social justice. In 2024, during an Auckland show for the SOS Tour, SZA expressed her support for Palestinian rights by waving their flag as she performed and saying "Free Palestine". == Personal life ==
Personal life
SZA has been candid about her struggles with mental health, describing the music industry as "one of the most stressful, psychosis-inducing industries". and she considers herself Muslim. Apart from Abrahamic faiths, she incorporates Hinduism in her personal belief system. In 2020, she hosted an online meditation session with Lizzo on Instagram Live, where SZA played a Tibetan singing bowl. She went to a silent retreat in India in 2025, refraining from social media use for over a week and practicing samyama all the while. She wears a Linga Bhairavi pendant to get a positive energy, which was given by the Isha Foundation. To maintain her wellness, she does yoga. SZA is known for keeping her dating life private. Her known former partners include Drake, whom she dated in 2009. Another is an unnamed fashion designer, with whom she was in a relationship for eleven years, five years of which were spent engaged to be married. She attributes the beginning of her career in part to him, who helped finance her everyday needs; she described her relationship with him as codependent. The two broke off around 2017, sending SZA in a catastrophizing state because he was a "rock in [her] life" and "nobody understood [her] the way he did". "Nobody Gets Me" was written about him, as were many other songs from SOS. ==Discography==
Discography
Ctrl (2017) • SOS (2022) ==Filmography==
Filmography
One of Them Days (2025) ==Tours==
Tours
HeadliningCtrl the Tour (2017–2018) • SOS Tour (2023–2024) Co-headliningThe Championship Tour (with Top Dawg Entertainment artists) (2018) • Grand National Tour (with Kendrick Lamar) (2025) SupportingColdplayGhost Stories Tour (2014) • Jhené Aiko – Enter the Void Tour (2014) • Jessie J – Sweet Talker Tour (2015) • Bryson Tiller – Set It Off Tour (2017) == Achievements ==
Achievements
In her career, SZA has received seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination, and an Academy Award nomination. She has earned one American Music Award, six Billboard Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, and six BET Awards. SZA has also won the Soul Train Music Award for Best New Artist in 2017. Billboard later ranked her at number 18 on its 2025 "Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century" list. In September 2022, SZA was included as one of the rising stars on the Time 100 Next List. At the 2022 Grammy Awards, SZA won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with Doja Cat for their collaboration "Kiss Me More". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked SZA at number 180 on its list of the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time". At the 2025 Grammy Awards, SZA won Best R&B Song for her single "Saturn". == Notes ==
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