Ora began singing in bars and in 2009 a A&R told Roc Nation about Ora, a few days after Ora flew out to New York and met Jay Z. Soon after that, he signed Rita to RocNation.
On December 14, 2011 DJ Fresh released Hot Right Now (featuring Rita Ora) on YouTube. Which has reached #1 in the UK.
She has been recording her first studio album for the last two years. Will.I.Am, Ester Dean, Drake, The-Dream, and Stargate have all worked with Rita on her debut album.
When Ora spoke on the album she said "The crazy thing is I wanted the album to sound exactly like the subway, almost as if its just so free and raw".
She also announced that a British artist would be the only feature on the album, stating There's only one feature, a British artist. It's nice to keep in our little British family. The artist was later revealed to be rapper Tinie Tempah.
Rita has also been working with Kanye West saying, “Kanye is very much a genius. He’s a talent beyond belief,” shared Rita. “We’ve done some things together, but I might save it for the next album.” Ora spoke about the sound of the album and her main influences for it. “It definitely has pop in it, but I love soul music and I love my jazz music and I love all genres,”. “You can hear influences of jazz in there, you can hear influences of Monica and Aaliyah, and then you can hear Gwen Stefani.”
In a interview Ora confirmed some titles of the tracks to be featured on her debut. The first she confirmed was Roc the Life "which is about having no boundaries in life" , the single song Love at War "it's a very simple track, it's literally just a beat and my voice".
On February 24, 2012, Ora visited New York's Z100 radio station alongside her Roc Nation label boss Jay-Z, to premiere How We Do (Party), her debut single and the US lead single from her upcoming studio album that will be released somewhere this summer.
Ora released R.I.P featuring Tinie Tempah as her first UK single. R.I.P was written by Drake and produced by Chase & Status + StarGate.
The album, which was originally expected to be released in September 2012 is now scheduled to arrive August 27th 2012 according to UK online retailer Amazon.co.uk.
On it-leaked.
Tracklist:
1. Facemelt (Intro)
2. Roc Da Life
3. How We Do (Party)
4. R.I.P (Feat. Tinie Tempah)
5. Radioactive
6. Shine Ya Light
7. Love + War (Feat. J Cole)
8. Uneasy
9. Fall in Love (Feat. will.i.am)
10. Been Lyin’
11. Hello, Hi, Goodbye
12. Hot Right Now
13. Crazy Girl
14. Young, Single + Sexy
15. Meet Ya (Acoustic)
haha, since when you care about some shitty pop? :D whatever, updated.