She subsequently signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for then-label head Jay-Z. Talk That Talk, Rihanna’s sixth album, was released in November 2011. Rihanna has sold more than 20 million albums and 60 million singles which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade, and ranked her as the 17th Artist of the 2000s decade. During her parents’ marriage, she suffered from excruciating headaches leading doctors to think she had a brain tumor and underwent several CAT scans from the age of eight until her parents separated. She grew up in a modest three-bed bungalow in Bridgetown and would sell clothes with her dad on a street stall. When Rogers and his Bajan-born wife were in Barbados for the holidays, Rihanna and her two bandmates auditioned for him in his hotel room, who said that “the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist.” While auditioning for Rogers, she sang Destiny’s Child’s cover of “Emotion”.

Rihanna takes a tumble Rihanna took an embarrassing tumble on stage last week in Canada while she was performing as part of her ‘Loud’ world tour. Rihanna took an embarrassi… [link]

In 2005, Rihanna released her debut studio album, Music of the Sun, which peaked in the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart and features the Billboard Hot 100 hit single “Pon de Replay.” Less than a year later, she released her second studio album, A Girl Like Me (2006), which peaked within the top five of the Billboard albums chart, and produced her first Hot 100 number one single, “SOS”. She grew up listening to reggae music, and began singing at around the age of seven. During her parents’ marriage, she suffered from excruciating headaches that doctors thought she had brain tumour and underwent several CAT scans from the age of 8 till her parents separated. Rihanna and her two bandmates auditioned for Rogers in his hotel room, who said that “the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist.” While auditioning for Rogers, she sang Destiny’s Child’s cover of “Emotion”. When he heard “Pon de Replay”, Jay-Z was skeptical about Rihanna at first because he felt that the song was too big for her, stating that “when a song is that big, it’s hard to come back from. Def Jam was the first label to respond and invited her to audition where she sang “For the Love of You” for L.A. Reid of Island Def Jam Music Group and Jay-Z. After signing with Def Jam, she spent the next three months recording and completing her debut album. Rolling Stone magazine rated it 2.5 out of 5 stars and described as lacking the replay value, ingenuity and rhythm of the single with “generic vocal hiccups and frills” of US R&B inflecting upon her “Caribbean charm”.

Rihanna sued over ‘S+M’ video again Rihanna is being sued by a second photographer, Philipp Paulus, who claims her ‘S+M’ video steals his work. Rihanna is being sued by a second photogra… [link]

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Rihanna takes a tumble Rihanna took an embarrassing tumble on stage last week in Canada while she was performing as part of her ‘Loud’ world tour. Rihanna took an embarrassi… [link]