R&B singer Zhavia Ward landed a multi-album record deal after competing on the 2018 Fox reality show The Four: Battle for Stardom, where she was one of the four finalists. • Ward sang on Diplo, French Montana, and Lil Pump’s Top 40 2018 single “Welcome to the Party,” from the soundtrack to the movie Deadpool 2. The following year, she duetted with Zayn Malik on a cover of “A Whole New World,” from the soundtrack to the 2019 version of Aladdin. • Her six-song debut EP, 17, came out in 2019. Skip Marley, a grandson of reggae icon Bob Marley, contributes vocals to the song “All I Am.” • Ward’s mother, Bobbi Jo Black, was the singer for the short-lived Los Angeles heavy metal band Xenoterra.