

She has since apologised in a statement, which read: “I recently flew to Egypt to perform at a corporate event for a private company, where my travel party followed protocol and presented negative Covid tests upon entry, as required by Egyptian authorities. The Mail on Sunday reported that Rita flew to Cairo on 21 November to perform at the five-star W Hotel, before returning to London the following day – meaning she should have isolated until Sunday 6 December.īut, she held her illegal birthday party days later on on 28 November.
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Download OK! magazine's FREE app and get all the latest gossip straight to your phone.Sign up to our daily newsletter for the BEST celebrity house tours and BIGGEST exclusive interviews.It comes after Rita was forced to apologise for a second time after it was discovered she broke the 14 day government quarantine rule to attend her birthday bash. “She is determined to make her fans proud again.” The insider added: “Rita is pouring all her concentration into her music now. After "Barricades," a 2022 collaboration with Netsky, Ora returned in January of 2023 with "You Only Love Me.Rita Ora is said to have "learnt" from her mistakes (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Annabel's) Dance chart, and the following year, she signed with Berlin-based BMG Records. The EP made a strong chart showing on the U.S. The next year saw the arrival of the Bang EP, which included collaborations with KHEA, David Guetta, Imanbek, and Gunna. In 2020, Ora returned with the single "How to Be Lonely," followed closely behind by a set of remixes for the track. The album featured a star-studded list of producers - including Alesso, Avicii, Benny Blanco, and Cashmere Cat - and Ora also recruited Julia Michaels ("Keep Talking"), Rudimental ("Summer Love"), and Cardi B, Bebe Rexha, and on the single "Girls," Charli XCX.

Her official sophomore full-length, the aptly titled Phoenix, finally arrived in late 2018 on Atlantic Records. Yet she remained on the charts with a consistent string of singles and collaborations, notably 2014's "Black Widow" with Iggy Azalea (her first Top Ten appearance in the U.S.), 2015's "Poison," 2017's Top Ten hit "Your Song," and 2018's "For You," a duet with Liam Payne for the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack that topped charts across Europe and was a modest hit in the U.S. Six years would pass before a proper sophomore follow-up, as Ora remained mired in label issues (eventually leading to a messy split with Roc Nation in 2016). She returned to the number one spot that same year with her debut solo single, "R.I.P.," the first taste of her first full-length, Ora, which went straight to the number one spot on the U.K. While working on her debut album, she provided the vocals for DJ Fresh's 2012 drum'n'bass hit "Hot Right Now," which topped the charts in the U.K.


In 2007, she made her first official appearance, guesting on Craig David's single "Awkward" the next year, she joined Tinchy Stryder on his single "Where's Your Love." Her big break arrived in 2009, when an open-mike performance attended by one of Jay-Z's A&R men landed her a deal with the rapper's label, Roc Nation. An attendee of the famous Sylvia Young Theatre School, she sang from an early age and honed her skills performing in pubs and at open mikes. After a switch to the BMG label, she returned in early 2023 with "You Only Love Me."īorn Rita Sahatçiu in Pristina, Kosovo to Albanian parents, she fled the former Yugoslavia with her family in 1991, relocating to England, where she was raised in Notting Hill. Even after years of label issues threatened to halt her career, she remained on the charts and issued the triumphant sophomore effort Phoenix in 2018, followed by the Bang EP in 2021. With her soulful vocals and joyful energy, British-Albanian pop singer Rita Ora made her debut in the late 2000s, quickly rising to the top of the U.K.
