Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for CoachellaSZA was inducted into her high school’s Hall of Fame on Monday, and she told students she was a success, despite the fact that she was shut out at the Grammy Awards earlier this year.
“I got nominated for five Grammys and I didn’t win,” she said in an Instagram video at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. “But I want to tell you something. It’s not about not winning. We cracked a billion streams. We sold more albums than people who did win. All these things you have to pay attention to: How God is working in your life in tiny, tiny ways.”
Despite tweeting last week that her voice was permanently damaged, the Soul Train award winner sang “Weekend” and the students sang along with every word.
SZA also told the teens that believing in God was a key to life.
“You have to listen closely to how He’s working in his life,” she said. “It starts with compassion, it starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.”
SZA isn’t the only famous alumna of Columbia High School: Lauryn Hill was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.
Copyright © 2018, ABC Radio. All rights reserved.
