American R 'n' B singer SZA will take to one of the music world's most high-profile stages when she headlines Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage on Sunday, June 30. The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter was announced as a headliner - along with Coldplay and Dua Lipa - last March. It came after she played four sold-out shows at the O2 Arena in London.
The 34-year-old has been steadily making a name for herself for more than a decade now. Her music career started in 2011 and she has co-written songs including “Consideration” for Rihanna's 2016 album Anti. Her net worth is now £47million, according to Celebrity Net Worth .
READ MORE: "It was absolute bedlam": TUI holidaymakers' nightmare journey home after flight cancellation Read on to find out more about SZA. SZA's real name, early life and experiencing Islamophobia SZA's real name is Solána Imani Rowe and she was born on November 8, 1989. She grew up in the suburb of Maplewood in New Jersey.
Her father Abdul Mubarak-Rowe and mother, Audrey Rowe, are both media executives and worked for CNN and telecommunications company AT&T. Her mother is a Christian and her father is Muslim, and she has spoken of how she wore a hijab through elementary school and middle school, deciding to remove it after experiencing Islamophobia following the September 11 attacks. She said : "I stopped covering after 9/11.
I was in Middle school, and I regret so much being afraid of what people said about me - that I let somebody dictate how I was. ".
