b. March 1979, London, England. A rising star of the UK R&B scene, Shola Ama grew up listening to her mother's Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight records while still at school. She was first spotted by Kwame of the UK jazz-funk group D-Influence when she was just 15 years old. Kwame overheard her humming a tune on the westbound Piccadilly line platform at Hammersmith, and invited her to audition for him right there and then. Two songs, one
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