{"id":613973,"date":"2026-07-31T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/613973\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:33:12","slug":"longtime-friends-lance-savali-and-rita-ora-go-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/613973\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Friends Lance Savali and Rita Ora Go &#8216;Higher&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Savali has released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lancesavali.lnk.to\/Higher?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Higher<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d a new house single with Rita Ora, through Casablanca Records. The track, available now, arrives as the Samoan, New Zealand-born producer and DJ builds on an audience of more than 1.8 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Ora\u2019s vocal sits at the center of the recording, while Savali\u2019s production uses bouncing percussion, melodic hooks and a steady club pulse.<\/p>\n<p>Savali said he had Ora in mind from the track\u2019s earliest stage because of their longstanding friendship. \u201cHer and I go way back and we\u2019ve been friends for years,\u201d he said. Savali added that Ora\u2019s husband is \u201clike a brother\u201d to him, making the singer \u201cpretty much family.\u201d \u201cObviously it\u2019s my first collab song with anyone, and for me to be able to start that journey with a superstar like her, I\u2019m very fortunate,\u201d Savali said. \u201cShe\u2019s made this process the easiest it could ever be, and I\u2019m incredibly grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before releasing music under his own name, Savali built his profile as a dancer and creative, touring and performing alongside Rihanna, Beyonc\u00e9 and Jennifer Lopez.\u00a0The release follows \u201cDevotion\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t No Party,\u201d which have generated a combined 60 million streams and received support from BTS\u2019 V, Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Nicole Scherzinger. On July 31, Savali is scheduled to perform at Elsewhere\u2019s Zone One in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn show is billed as a celebration of \u201cHigher.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lancesavali.lnk.to\/Higher?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>Listen to \u201cHigher\u201d here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Savali has released \u201cHigher,\u201d a new house single with Rita Ora, through Casablanca Records. The track, available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,30828,47519,19,17,259081,337,4513,35882],"class_list":["post-613973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-higher","tag-homepage-featured","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lance-savali","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rita-ora"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117016265104413636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}