News | Entertainment
10 Feb 2026 18:05
NZCity News
NZCity CalculatorReturn to NZCity

  • Start Page
  • Personalise
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Shopping
  • Jobs
  • Horoscopes
  • Lotto Results
  • Photo Gallery
  • Site Gallery
  • TVNow
  • Dating
  • SearchNZ
  • NZSearch
  • Crime.co.nz
  • RugbyLeague
  • Make Home
  • About NZCity
  • Contact NZCity
  • Your Privacy
  • Advertising
  • Login
  • Join for Free

  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    SZA "didn't sign up" for worldwide fame

    The 35-year-old singer has released two top-selling albums since beginning her music career in 2017 but now that she is to make her film debut in 'One of Them Days' alongside established actress and former child star Keke Palmer, she has admitted that she sometimes finds it "hard to be so comfortable" in front of the cameras.


    She told US TV show 'Extra: "It makes you want to be a part of something and take a risk because you feel insulated by beautiful energy.

    "You see how, like, some people are very well acclimated in being perceived and also have a different mechanism to approach that, so Keke has, like, this crazy network of mechanism, where it's like everything just kind of like flows even when the cameras are on.

    "For me, it's a little harder to like be so comfortable when I don't really know what is happening... I didn't grow up famous. "[Fame] is so weird and people be actin' like it's normal. They be like, 'That's what you signed up for,' and I'm just like, 'I didn't even know what I was signing up for, actually.'

    The Grammy Award-winning star - whose real name is Solána Imani Rowe - explained that she had a "regular" life until things started to kick off with her career, and has had to adjust to being "examined" in such a public way.

    She said: "I grew up, you know, just in the 'burbs, went to regular school, went to regular college, did regular odd jobs until, you know, everything popped off. So now, I've never been examined in this way where's it's like binoculars.

    "I just made a couple songs and I was grateful that they were liked and then I kept going. Even with this movie, I literally just signed onto the movie, not thinking about that eventually there'd be a press junket, eventually you're gonna have to be seen on camera."

    © 2026 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

     Other Entertainment News
     10 Feb: Paris Hilton has tried to make her home "really fun" because she's "anxious" about her kids "sneaking out" when they are teenagers
     10 Feb: Halle Berry is engaged to marry her boyfriend Van Hunt
     10 Feb: Kim Kardashian has insisted her ex-husband Kanye West will "always be family"
     10 Feb: Travis Kelce has joked that he's put on weight because of Taylor Swift's baking
     10 Feb: Normani feels inspired by Beyonce's "grace" and "poise"
     10 Feb: Gordon Ramsay says the family feud involving son-in-law Adam Peaty's relatives is "upsetting" and "self-inflicted from their side"
     10 Feb: Travis Kelce has joked "he can't even count" the number of beer kegs that will be at his upcoming wedding
     Top Stories

    RUGBY RUGBY
    A thumbs up from Crusaders flanker Ethan Blackadder ahead of their Super Rugby title defence, starting Friday against the Highlanders in Dunedin More...


    BUSINESS BUSINESS
    The Energy Minister's now claiming the money gathered to pay for building a new LNG import facility - is neither a levy nor a tax on consumers More...



     Today's News

    Entertainment:
    Paris Hilton has tried to make her home "really fun" because she's "anxious" about her kids "sneaking out" when they are teenagers 17:51

    Rugby League:
    Coach Andrew Webster is hoping Roger Tuivasa-Sheck remains a Warrior beyond this NRL season 17:37

    Accident and Emergency:
    Reports of serious injuries - after a crash between a vehicle and a cyclist in Upper Hutt's Trentham 17:27

    Entertainment:
    Halle Berry is engaged to marry her boyfriend Van Hunt 17:21

    Wellington:
    One person is being flown to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition - after a house fire on a hillside between Eskdale and Bay View in Hawke's Bay 16:57

    Entertainment:
    Kim Kardashian has insisted her ex-husband Kanye West will "always be family" 16:51

    International:
    Ghislaine Maxwell was complicit in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. Now she's pushing for clemency 16:47

    Entertainment:
    Travis Kelce has joked that he's put on weight because of Taylor Swift's baking 16:21

    National:
    The 4 big changes to gun laws that would make NZ safer 16:07

    Netball:
    Deb Fuller is trading the Silver Ferns for Malawi, just months out from the Commonwealth Games netball tournament 15:57


     News Search






    Power Search


    © 2026 New Zealand City Ltd