Rita Ora Does GQ Magazine August 2012
The thing about
Rita Ora is she
can actually sing. No, like, really
sing. At our photo shoot, she blew out brains with a cast-off couplet
from "R.I.P."—her Drake-penned UK hit—while blithely examining her
scorched platinum curls.
Her first hit
in the U.S., "How
We Do (Party),"
is very Rih-Gaga—
all ear-wormy, clubby, and girl-power anthemic—but surely There Will Be
Ballads. (Check her tender acoustic take on OutKast's "Hey Ya!") "It's
fun to show off your abilities," she says, spearing a tiny Danish with a
bejeweled talon and popping it in her mouth. "Your vocal range, your
tone."
Jay-Z signed
the Kosovo-born Brit to his label,
Roc Nation, in 2009. Then he did the unthinkable: He gave her three
years to finish her new debut album, Ora. For most starlets, that's a lotta bankable time wasted; for Rita, it was three years to evolve into a singer who will have a—gasp!—career. "The public's not stupid," she says. "You can tell an honest artist from one who's
just been given all their songs."
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