Artist: Rihanna
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Dance
Pop
Discography:
Umbrella (EP)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
Shut Up And Drive
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Good Girl Gone Bad
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
A Girl Like Me
Year: 2006
Tracks: 16
Music Of The Sun
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Rihanna established herself big time in summer 2005 with her debut dash hit, "Pon de Replay," and continued to shew her smash hit potential in subsequent old age (e.g., "S.O.S.," 2006; "Umbrella," 2007). By the prison term of her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), she was a fully fledged external pop star with a regular presence atop the charts, from Germany to Japan. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados, she always exhibited a special quality, fetching beaut and talent contests as a schoolchild. But because she lived on the passably remote island of Barbados in the West Indies, she never foresaw the sort of stardom that would later befall her.
That stardom came courtesy of a disastrous get together with a man named Evan Rogers. The New Yorker was vacationing in Barbados with his married woman, a native of the island, when somebody sour him on to Rihanna. Since Rogers had washed-out geezerhood producing pop artists -- including superstars like *NSYNC, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Laura Pausini, and Rod Stewart -- he offered her the chance to record some euphony after he recognized her talent and potency. Along with Rogers' production better half, Carl Sturken (the other half of Syndicated Rhythm Productions), Rihanna recorded some demos that sparked the interest of the Carter Administration -- that is, new appointed Def Jam chairperson Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. This lED to an tryout and, in turn, an on the spot offer to sign with Def Jam, which Rihanna indeed inked on the blot.
Come summer 2005, Def Jam rolled stunned "Pon de Replay," the lead single of Music of the Sun, which was produced well-nigh only by Rogers and Sturken and which synthesized Caribbean rhythms and beat generation with urban-pop songwriting. "Pon de Replay" caught fire almost immediately, climb all the way to issue two on The Billboard Hot one C and contesting the half-summer reign of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" atop the chart, and this was before Euphony of the Sun regular had been released. The album spawned one other hit, "If It's Lovin' That You Want," which stony-broke the Top 40. Rihanna's followup album, A Girl Like Me, was a greater success, spawning trey big hits: a chart-topper ("S.O.S.") and two Top Tens ("Unfaithful," "Break off It Off").
Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), continued her success and, more notably, signaled a change of counsel. Whereas her past two albums had been been unbalanced -- often weighed low by faceless balladry and canned Caribbean-isms -- Honest Girl Gone Bad was a topnotch dance-pop album. Moreover, it was amazingly solid, curvy with potential singles and easily enjoyable from beginning to end. Collaborators included Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, Timbaland, and StarGate. The lead single, "Umbrella," shaft to number one and, for the third year in a row, was a potential drop "birdcall of the summer." By this point in time it was clear that Rihanna had suit one of the biggest singles artists of the mid-2000s.
