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hi i'm rita ora and i am doing the wired auto complete interview let me know if my posture starts going like this because my mother will kill me if my posture is bad okay here we go what is rita ora known for well you know i get asked that a lot because i do lots of things i do music i do film i do tv shows and i do fashion i really love doing everything and you know why because why not all right 360 artist businesswoman what here's the next one what is rita ora's vocal range well first of all what is rita ora's vocal range i mean i don't know how to say it but you know it really is a very kind of strong one it really varies depending on the record but i'd like to think i'm a very strong alto i got that husk what does root aura look like what google images people google images okay i look like this instagram handle at retort what is rita ora zodiac sign my zodiac sign is sagittarius 26th of november 1990 which i think in the united states of america that's around thanksgiving all my american friends seem to be unavailable around my birthday so are they really my friends i don't really know what is rita ora's most popular song well i think there's a few anywhere is a pretty good one i will never let you down i did with calvin harris oh and let you love me i'm also just telling you the songs that i love performing so what connects rita ora and oh there's two and oh jim belushi well we're both from the same country from kosovo there's actually a lot of incredible artists now coming out of my country i'm very proud of it but yes he is an icon where i'm from what has rita ora done to her hair what so i'm not quite sure so people are actually asking these questions because they don't like what i've done to my hair or they want to know how to do my hair or they want to copy it i'm quite sure where i stand there without question i've done a lot of looks i've shaved my head done a little sort of crop do i've gone all sorts of colors platinum blue purple pink what does rita ora eat everything what are rita ora's fans called well the ritabots you know i'm not quite sure where they got that from what they say to me is you know like they're they're robots they're indestructible so that is i think where they got rita bots are robots bots what was rita ora's first song well it was a song called r.i.p it was written actually by drake and chase and status and it's probably one of the most memorable moments of my life of course it was my first song was the first time i had a solo number one single the one prior to that was a feature so i don't really technically cast it as my record you know so this for me was a monumental moment is rita ora albanian yes well let me just tell you it's a bit complicated right kosovo is now independent which it wasn't back in the day so technically yes for years i would say i'm albanian i'm albanian albanian but i'm actually kosovan but it's really very much it's similar is ritora her real name you know it's so funny everyone asks me that it really is my my full name is rita sahachu aura israeli torah left-handed yes i am i'm pretty happy to be left-handed because they say a lot of good things about left-handed people you know they're creative they're loving they're lovable they're awesome they're amazing people friendly kind generous funny just doesn't end what do i need to say this one yeah okay does rita aura oh this one's kind of tricky i already can feel it does gosh i don't even know okay here we go does rita aura sing in 50 shades yes i do i am in 50 shades and i sing in 50 shades it's a song called for you that i do with liam payne i kind of love singing for film you know i've done a song for detective pikachu i did the for you soundtrack i really feel like i love it because you already have a visual you know so writing songs for movies is really fun because you can really adapt to what you're watching does ritora speak albanian yes i do i mean i can say si ayamir which means hi how are you gesuard means cheers and not nemir means goodnight my parents growing up spoke albanian in the house constantly they were learning how to speak english at the same time so i kind of just really picked it up and thank goodness they did because it's really nice speaking another language especially in public if other people don't understand what you're saying does rita ora write her own songs yeah some of them i do some of them have been written already and then i put my thing on them it really depends on the song you know i really feel like however a song comes into my life comes in for a reason so i tend to mold it to me it's hot in here when was rita ora born okay i was born 26th of november 1990 i'm a 90's baby when was rita ora on the voice well i'm on it a few times actually i did it back home in the uk i was a coach back in i think 2014 or 15 and then i just wrapped up doing the voice australia when is rita ora on tour i know right hopefully i'll be on tour 2022 fingers crossed watch out for the tickets when was rita ora oh sorry when was rita ora a judge on x factor wow that was pretty pretty it was a while ago i would say 2013 no 14 gosh it was my first kind of tv gig i loved it i i went back as an actual judge at some point and it was really cool and i actually won the show thank you okay who is rita ora best friend who is my best friend i've got a few i'm very lucky i've got amazing friends well first of all my bestest friend is somebody i went and grew up with back at home who i've known since i was one years old she's the best she really loves to stay out of the spotlight so i won't say her name but she is really my rock aside from that i have made some incredible friends in the industry who i cast as my dearest friends and i love them to bits charli xcx being one charlie is for me one of the most talented people ever to be on planet earth she's such a great writer she is one of the funnest people to party with i think she is just like the coolest you know you know some people are just like that's cool that's charlie who has rita ora collaborated with i like collaborating i can admit i have had a few collaborations in my career thus far dj fresh who is an amazing dj we had the first drum and bass number one single which in history dj tiesto alesso kygo calvin harris avicii oh gosh david guetta emma beck now cigala gosh i'm sorry if i'm missing out on any other djs who has rita ora guest on the masked singer i guessed neo ceelo green kalis you know i've guessed a lot because i love music you know for me it's like muscle memory i hear the tone and i'm like i know exactly who that is and i can really take the game kind of seriously the rest of the judges are like can you relax it's a game show i'm like no i need to get this right who is ritora's sister well her name is elena aura she is fun great fantastic and she works with me here we are how was rita ora discovered well i didn't really get signed until i was 14 to 16 and that was just a production deal that fell through i ended up working in a recording studio to get sort of like free studio time and through that i met a lot of singers i did a lot of backing vocals for a lot of people on albums that you probably have heard and wouldn't know it was me on there and then you know i would write a lot of demos for a lot of people and it got into the hands of rock nation and jay-z luckily they liked it they flew me out to new york and by the time i turned 17 i was signed to up nation that's the quick version by the way how tall is route to aurora well i'd like to think i'm 5 11 but nobody believes me i'm more like five seven five six five seven yeah i think being tall is gorgeous i don't know ever since i was young i wanted to be like really tall so weird right how old is rita ora okay i just gonna say it i'm 30 yes i made it you know i think being 30 is amazing i feel very calm i feel very much more aware of myself i think in your 20s you're not meant to know what's going on you're meant to just figure it all out you know so don't put too much pressure on yourself but i do feel very confident and comfortable in my skin being 30 and i think that's a very sexy thing yeah i feel very like in myself how to be rita or what i can't believe people actually type these things how do you i mean how to be me well i mean i don't know i guess just be ambitious you know be proud of who you are where you're from and never really give up until you know you've you've tried everything how is ritora ah that's so nice you know no one really asks you that i'm fine thank you ah since you mentioned it well there was this guy and there was this not joking i'm absolutely fine thank you very much for asking how are you how many tattoos does rita ora have sorry mum if you're watching i have a lot you know i think i just made a decision and i became like a tattoo girl you know it started kind of early on in my in my life like in my early 20s and it just really never ended so i've probably got about 30. i think now i think i will only get something if it's really really important you know what i mean if it's like a memory or somebody that i really you know if it's just something very special then yeah well alright that's it till next time i hope you've had fun i've had a great time some of the questions i can't believe that they get typed but you know that's what we are here to do thanks for watching i had an amazing time [Music] you