Born Ajala Shabazz on August 13, 2001, was the creation of American Country Singer Lil Ja. Lil Ja is from North Carolina, born in Charlotte and raised in Albemarle, where he moved when he was eight years old. As a teenager, he played football and sang in the church choir. While attending college at Full Sail University -- Ja decided to put his studies on the back burner so he could concentrate on music. Learning how to sang. After gigging regularly in North Carolina, he headed to Houston in 2022 to pursue a musical career. Lil Ja slyly updates these traditional sounds with a hint of modern R&B. This combination, which flourished on ballads, made Ja stand apart from both slick country-pop crooners and bro-country revelers