"studied economics. Ora has an older sister, Elena, and a younger brother, Don. She was born as Rita Sahatçiu (; surname derived from the Turkish word, , which means ""watchmaker""), but her parents later added Ora (which means ""time"" in Albanian) to the family surname so it could be easily pronounced. Her family left Kosovo for political reasons, because of the persecution of Albanians initiated with the disintegration of Yugoslavia. They relocated to London, England in 1991, when she was a year old. She grew up in Notting Hill, in West London, and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias Primary"
"along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording the latest version of the track, ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", to raise money for the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa. On 14 November 2015, Ora performed during half-time at David Beckham's UNICEF charity ""Match for Children"" held at Old Trafford, Manchester. On 9 March 2016, she gave a speech on immigration and the Syrian refugee crisis at the We Day UK event in London, organised by Free the Children. Rita Ora Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born Rita Sahatçiu; 26 November 1990) is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She rose"
"Rita Ora Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born Rita Sahatçiu; 26 November 1990) is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to prominence in February 2012 when she featured on DJ Fresh's single ""Hot Right Now"", which reached number one in the UK. Her debut studio album, ""Ora"", released in August 2012, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. The album contained the UK number-one singles ""R.I.P."" and ""How We Do (Party)"". Ora was the artist with the most number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart in 2012, with three consecutive singles reaching the top position. In January 2014, Adidas"
"name in Hong Kong as a singer during Rita's childhood. Rita's parents were separated early in her life, so she and her siblings were raised by her father, who taught them the piano and guitar. While her siblings eventually became established musicians playing instruments, Rita opted to sing instead, and started to sing at her father's performances as a teenager. Her father used to turn her microphone's volume down in these performances in order to train her voice. In 1982, she participated in the inaugural New Talent Singing Awards hosted by Hong Kong's television broadcaster TVB under the name Rita"
"United States, Spain and Australia. Kira (Belgian singer) Kira (born Natasja de Witte, 3 May 1977) is a Belgian singer and model. Kira was born in Affligem, where she has lived her whole life. At the age of thirteen, Kira had her first brush with fame when she appeared on the Belgian TV show ""Stars in Their Eyes"". In 2000, she competed in the Belgian version of ""Popstars"" and was voted in the top ten. That same year she was runner-up in the Miss Belgium beauty contest. In March 2002, Kira was introduced to record producers Bart Grinaert and the"
"the border of Greece. Her father, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff was a Pomak (Bulgarian Muslim) born in Breshtene (Oraio), Greece, close to the border of Bulgaria. Wilson's father moved from Bulgaria to the United States in 1949. He converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity upon his marriage, and changed his name to Allan Wilson in 1960, choosing his name after a local street. Rita was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith. Her father in addition to Bulgarian could speak ""Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek, a little bit of Italian, a little bit of French"" according to Rita's husband Tom Hanks, who said"
"Ora would replace her as host of the revamped show which aired on VH1. Ora hosted the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards on 12 November in London, at Wembley Arena. Ora speaks Albanian. Her mother is Catholic and her father is a nominal Muslim. Ora considers herself spiritual but not religious. She also considers herself a feminist. Her maternal grandfather, Osman Bajraktari, was the Albanian consul to Russia (then part of the Soviet Union). While her grandfather was a diplomat there, Ora's mother studied medicine at Moscow Medical Academy. Ora's paternal grandfather, Besim Sahatçiu, was a film and theatre director."
"in America I am known as the cuchi-cuchi girl. That’s okay because cuchi-cuchi has taken me all the way to the bank."" Born as María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, her official date of birth is listed as January 15, 1951 (though original documents from Spain report her birth date as March 13, 1941), in Molina de Segura, Region of Murcia, Spain. Her father was reportedly a lawyer who fled to Casablanca during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, while her homemaker mother stayed behind in Murcia, raising their children. Charo has occasionally claimed that she was enrolled in"
"Rita Guerra Rita Guerra (born ""Rita Maria de Azevedo Mafra Guerra"" on 22 October 1967) is a Portuguese singer. Rita Guerra was born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal. She has long competed in the Portuguese national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. She first participated in 1992, making it to the national finals. With the song ""Meu amor inventado em mim,"" she reached second place. She finally sang in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, in Riga, Latvia, where she finished 22nd with 13 points. For Rita it was very difficult to sing this night because at the day before the"
"Ora (Rita Ora album) Ora is the debut studio album by British recording artist Rita Ora. It was released on 27 August 2012 through Roc Nation and Columbia Records. Musically, ""Ora"" is mainly a pop and R&B album that incorporates dance elements. The album's release was preceded by two singles—""How We Do (Party)"" and ""R.I.P.""—both of which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1 and achieved standard chart positions in charts abroad. The album also includes the DJ Fresh collaboration, ""Hot Right Now"", which is featured as a bonus track. The album debuted at number 1 on the UK"
"of producers and writers such as will.i.am, Ester Dean, The-Dream, The Runners, The Monarch, Stargate, Chase & Status, Greg Kurstin, Jules De Martino and Diplo. Ora described the album cover as: ""Everything was inspired basically by being bossy, by being independent, and by taking your own. We made sure that everything had character."" She explained the title of the album: ""Ora is my surname, but it also means time in my country, Kosovo, in Albanian language, and it definitely took me a long time to get this album — three years to be exact."" On 22 July 2012, the official"
"in 12 hours, in a breast cancer awareness charity event. Ruth Lorenzo was born on 10 November 1982 in the Region of Murcia, in south-eastern Spain. At a very young age she became a fan of the musical ""Annie"" and although she had no idea of what the words meant she would sing along to the songs in English. When she was six years old she discovered music by Catalan opera singer Montserrat Caballé, and after her mother bought her an album by Caballé, Lorenzo began to sing opera, imitating Caballé's vocals until she was pitch perfect. At the age"
"Rita Lee Rita Lee (born Rita Lee Jones, December 31, 1947) is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. She is a former member of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes and is a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian. She has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. Rita Lee was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an American father, Charles Fenley Jones, a dentist descended from the Confederados, and Romilda Padula, a Brazilian mother of Italian ancestry. She was educated in a French-language school and became fluent"
"United States. Named after the nearby city of Winona, she was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents' friendship with Laura Huxley, writer Aldous Huxley's wife. Her stage name derives from Mitch Ryder, a soul and rock singer of whom her father was a fan. Ryder's father is an atheist and her mother is a Buddhist; they encouraged their children to take the best part of other religions and use them to make their own belief systems. Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Urie (named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin), and two"
"card to the journalist, and it read: ""born 18 November 1950 in Saigon"". This date, however, appears to be a fabrication, as public records show that she began university in September 1964, and that she married in December 1965. As for her birthplace, Saigon and British Hong Kong appear to be most credible versions, but places like Singapore, Switzerland and even Transylvania have also been rumoured as the singer's birthplace. She was reportedly the only child to her parents who later divorced. Most sources, including Lear's 1965 wedding certificate from the Chelsea registry office, confirm that her father was a"
"in her native Portugal. Rita Lopes de Almeida was born on 5 March 1848 as the fourth of five children to Manuel Lopes and Josefa de Jesus Almeida. Her baptism was celebrated on the following 13 March. She would recite rosaries each night with her parents and siblings over the course of her childhood. She spent a brief period of time with the Benedictines at Viseu and travelled from parish to parish to encourage people to make their faith an integral part to their lives. This saw men propose to her - though she refused each offer - and she"
"with Live Nation Global Touring, the tour was to commence on January 18, 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands and would conclude on March 14 in Nice, France. For the tour leg in the United Kingdom, British singer Rita Ora was scheduled to be an opening act. On September 25, 2012, Live Nation Global Touring announced that the tour will be postponed until the fall of 2013, due to Usher's participation in the reality talent show ""The Voice"", where along with singer Shakira, he was a judge in the show's fourth season. The tour, however, was not rescheduled. At Metacritic, which assigns"
"Martha Joy Martha Joy (Born Martha Joy Lim-Fiuza on December 8, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario) is a singer, recording artist and host in the Philippines. Martha was born in 1990 in Toronto, Ontario of mixed Filipino and Portuguese parentage. She started singing almost as soon as she learned to speak. Her mother recognized her gift and sought the best available vocal coached in Toronto to ensure the proper development of her voice. Those years of formal training gave her not only the capacity to sing with ease but also the stamina required in a singing career. At her first solo"
"Lotti) was born in 1381 in the city of Roccaporena a small suburb of Cascia (near Spoleto, Umbria, Italy) where various sites connected with her are the focus of pilgrimages. Her parents, Antonio and Amata Ferri Lotti, were known to be noble, charitable persons, who gained the epithet ""Conciliatore di Cristo"" (English: ""Peacemakers of Christ""). According to pious accounts, Rita was originally pursued by a notary named ""Gubbio"" but she resisted his offer. She was married at age twelve to a nobleman named Paolo Mancini. Her parents arranged her marriage, a common practice at the time, despite her repeated requests"
"""super-fun"" and ""a high-fashion Rita in Wonderland."" Ora's first televised performance of ""Anywhere"" was on ""The Jonathan Ross Show"" on 21 October 2017. The following day, she performed the song in a medley with ""Your Song"" and ""Lonely Together"" at the 2017 BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards. On 5 November, Ora performed ""Anywhere"" on ""The X Factor UK"". She performed a medley of ""Anywhere"" and ""Your Song"" at the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards on 12 November, and at Germany's 2017 Bambi Awards on 16 November. Ora also performed ""Anywhere"" on the ""Children in Need 2017"" telethon (18 November), Australian"
"in nearby Juncos. Rita's mother moved to New York City in 1936, taking her daughter, but not her son, Rita's younger brother, Francisco. Rita adopted the surname of her first stepfather, Edward Moreno, Rosa Maria's second husband. She spent her teenage years living in the villages of Valley Stream, New York on Long Island. Rita began her first dancing lessons soon after arriving in New York with a Spanish dancer known as ""Paco Cansino"", who was a paternal uncle of film star Rita Hayworth. When she was 11 years old, she lent her voice to Spanish language versions of American"
"Maria Rita Maria Rita (; born 9 September 1977, São Paulo) is a Brazilian singer. Born Maria Rita Camargo Mariano, she is the daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singing legend Elis Regina and sister to Pedro Mariano and music producer João Marcelo Bôscoli. Her namesake is family friend and famed Brazilian rock legend Rita Lee. She studied at New York University, and worked as a journalist at a magazine for adolescents. Maria Rita began singing professionally at the age of 24, although she had wanted to sing since she was 14. Her first CD,"
"Ora's older sister, Elena, is a part of her management team. On 10 July 2015, Ora was named an Honorary Ambassador of Kosovo by then-president, Atifete Jahjaga, at the Embassy of Kosovo in London. Ora, who was joined at the ceremony by her parents, and former British Prime Minister and his wife, Tony and Cherie Blair, stated she was ""overwhelmed"" by the honour and pledged to help the youth of Kosovo. On 23 March 2013, Ora performed as a special guest at ""Bal de la Rose du Rocher"", an event organised by Karl Lagerfeld in Monte Carlo in aid of"
"Rita la Cantaora Rita Giménez García, most commonly known as Rita la Cantaora (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz; 1859 - Zorita del Maestrazgo, Castellón; 1937), was one of the most famous Spanish singers of flamenco in her time due to her performances in ""cafés cantantes"", places where flamenco artists used to play music live. From an early age, she distinguished herself for her outstanding talent, not only for singing flamenco but also for dancing it, which became her way of making a living. Her career began in her home town, Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), where a theatrical agent heard"
"Lira (singer) Lerato Molapo, known professionally as Lira, is a South African singer. She was born in Daveyton, on Johannesburg's East Rand 1979. Her name translates to ""love"" in Sesotho and she speaks four languages. She is a multi-platinum selling and an 11-times South African Music Award-winning Afro-Soul vocalist, who refers to her music as ""a fusion of soul, funk, elements of jazz and African."" Her world was shaped by the harsh realities of South Africa's formerly racial and socioeconomic apartheid. She grew up listening to Miriam Makeba, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone, who would eventually inspire her"
"Cinta Laura Cinta Laura Kiehl, better known as Cinta Laura (; born August 17, 1993), is an Indonesian-German actress, electropop singer and model in Indonesia. Laura was born on August 17, 1993 in Quakenbrück, Germany. Her father, Michael Kiehl, was a German hotelier, and her mother, Herdiana Soekarseno, was an Indonesian lawyer of ethnic Sundanese descent. Due to her father’s job, Cinta grew up in several countries such as the UAE, Malaysia, Germany and finally Indonesia, which led her to grow up with English as her first language despite her German and Indonesian background. Upon her move to Indonesia, Cinta"
"""Entourage,"" ""The Middle,"" ""Veronica Mars,"" ""The Hogan Family,"" ""Community,"" and ""8 Simple Rules."" Lisa Rinna was born on July 11, 1963 in Newport Beach, California, as the daughter of Lois and Frank Rinna. She is of Italian, Portuguese, and English descent. At age seven, her family relocated to Medford, Oregon, when her father was transferred there for job-related reasons, and she spent the remainder of her childhood there. Rinna graduated from Medford Senior High School in 1981. After graduating, Rinna moved to San Francisco, California to pursue a career as a model. At age 22, Rinna appeared in the music"
"She was born in Rostock in 1971 (in the former German Democratic Republic) but now lives in Berlin. She has performed in the USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Brazil, and New Zealand. Her given name is of Swedish origin. Gun-Brit Barkmin Gun-Brit Barkmin is a German opera singer and concert soloist in the vocal range soprano who has garnered generally positive reviews for her performances in leading roles in operas by Janáček, Britten, Berg, Wagner and Richard Strauss, although (writing in ""The New Yorker"") Alex Ross felt that she ""showed strain"" in her"
"her music was put together in January 2012, performed in Montreal by artists who had worked with her. Lhasa was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father, language instructor Alejandro ""Alex"" Sela, and an American mother, photographer and actress Alexandra Karam. According to Lhasa, her hippie parents did not give her a name until the age of five months; her mother was reading a book about Tibet and the word ""Lhasa"" ""just grabbed her"" as the right name for the baby girl. Lhasa's maternal grandmother was Elena Karam (1909–2001), an actress best known for her leading role"
"from Santiago de Cuba]] [[Category: The Wailers members]] [[Category: Recipients of the Order of Distinction]] [[Category: Bob Marley]] Rita Marley Alpharita Constantia ""Rita"" Marley, OD (née Anderson; born 25 July 1946), is a Cuban-born Jamaican singer and the widow of Bob Marley. She was a member of the vocal group the I Threes, along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, who gained recognition as the backing vocalists for Bob Marley and the Wailers. Rita was born in Santiago de Cuba, to Leroy Anderson and Cynthia ""Beda"" Jarrett. She grew up in the upper level of Beachwood Avenue, located in Kingston,"
"Rita (Israeli singer) Rita Yahan-Farouz (, ; ; b. March 24, 1962), known as Rita, is an Israeli pop singer and actress. In 2011, she became popular in Iran after the release of various pop records which she sings in her native Persian language. In 2012, her album ""All My Joys"", also sung in Persian, was popular in Israel and Iran, going gold in Israel after three weeks. She has since been referred to as a cultural ambassador between Israeli and Iranian citizens, and states she hopes to ""puncture the wall of tension"" between their countries. Rita Jehan-Forouz was born"
"for UNICEF. Born on 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia, she is the only child of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Lebanon to New York City, where her father was born. Her father then emigrated to Colombia at age 5. The name ""Shakira"" is Arabic ( ) for ""grateful"", the feminine form of the name ""Shakir"" ( ). From her mother, she has Spanish (Catalan and Castilian) and Italian ancestry. She was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools. She has eight older half-siblings from her father's previous marriage. Shakira spent much of her"
"Organization's most recent charitable album, ""Red Hot+Rio 2."" The album was a follow-up to the 1996 ""Red Hot + Rio."" Proceeds from the sales were donated to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS and related other health and social issues. Rita Lee Rita Lee (born Rita Lee Jones, December 31, 1947) is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. She is a former member of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes and is a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian. She has sold more than 60 million albums"