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Shola Ama (born on March 18, 1979, in London) is an English singer who scored her biggest hit in 1997 with a cover of Randy Crawford’s “You Might Need Somebody”. She is half Caribbean (of Dominican & St. Lucian origin), quarter Irish and quarter Scottish.
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Shola Ama has blossomed into the UK’s premier Soul and RnB vocalist. Famed for her angelic, soulful voice and ability to fuse soul, RnB, 2-Step and UK garage music.
Shola attended Quintin Kynaston School in the early 1990s, it was here that her passion for music and performing was allowed to blossom. Shola’s discovery has become the stuff of legends. At 15 singing to herself at Hammersmith tube station and was over heard by a D’Influence music producer who was so amazed with what he heard he got her into the studio. In 1995 an independent label released a single titled ‘Celebrate’, which was a soft soulful ballad produced by D’Influence. Although the single was not a commercial success, it did draw a lot of attention to Shola as an artist and the result was that on her 16th birthday she signed a record deal with WEA.
Months later Shola released her biggest hit “You Might Need Somebody”. This Randy Crawford cover blasted Shola into the main stream - receiving huge amounts of praise from critics and reached #3 in the UK charts, and remained in the top 40 for almost 2 months becoming one of 1997 biggest hits. And at 18 Shola released her critically acclaimed, multi-platinum selling debut album Much Love (1997) which gave her 4 top ten hits and went on to top the charts around Europe.
Much Loved
Shola Ama has blossomed into the UK’s premier Soul and RnB vocalist. Famed for her angelic, soulful voice and ability to fuse soul, RnB, 2-Step and UK garage music.
Shola attended Quintin Kynaston School in the early 1990s, it was here that her passion for music and performing was allowed to blossom. Shola’s discovery has become the stuff of legends. At 15 singing to herself at Hammersmith tube station and was over heard by a D’Influence music producer who was so amazed with what he heard he got her into the studio. In 1995 an independent label released a single titled ‘Celebrate’, which was a soft soulful ballad produced by D’Influence. Although the single was not a commercial success, it did draw a lot of attention to Shola as an artist and the result was that on her 16th birthday she signed a record deal with WEA.
Months later Shola released her biggest hit “You Might Need Somebody”. This Randy Crawford cover blasted Shola into the main stream - receiving huge amounts of praise from critics and reached #3 in the UK charts, and remained in the top 40 for almost 2 months becoming one of 1997 biggest hits. And at 18 Shola released her critically acclaimed, multi-platinum selling debut album Much Love (1997) which gave her 4 top ten hits and went on to top the charts around Europe.
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Much Love
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In Return
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Still Believe
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Supersonic
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Neodita wrote:
where is she? great voice
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ramiroreguerin wrote:
shola merecería muchas más visitas ... she's wonderful ... like destiny77
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destiny77 wrote:
You Should Really Know...
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JustysiaUK wrote:
Why there isn't You might need somebody on the list???This is one of the best songs ever!
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destiny77 wrote:
I love her voice.
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destiny77 wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Shola+Ama/+images/5190598
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JAGSeFo wrote:
I Still Believe in loveee (L)
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somessy wrote:
you should really know
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michelgalicia wrote:
It´s so hard to find an special voice like Shola Ama. She´s like velvet an touch my soul.
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josecharts wrote:
You Might Need Somebody is a classic
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utada_hikaru_fr wrote:
elle fait quoi, elle, maintenant????
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dizzydjc wrote:
i love her! soo underrated!
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