Here’s some of what the 22-year-old entertainer had to share with the mag: On meeting Jay-Z in 2009 after her ‘big break’: “I didn’t think in a million years that I’d fly to New York to meet one of the biggest music moguls of our time.”

Rita Ora gets super fashion forward on the cover of Elle magazine’s Women in Music May 2013 issue, on newsstands April 23.