(Vocals, b. 1988) Barbados-born R&B sensation Robyn Rihanna Fenty’s rise began midway in the 2000s with her debut album Music Of The Sun (2005). Her second LP A Girl Like Me (2006) made the Top 5 in the US and in the UK, and included hit singles ‘Unfaithful’ and ‘SOS’. Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) became Rihanna’s most successful ...
in the US off the success of his debut single ‘Run It!’. Second LP Exclusive made the Top 5 two years later, but an assault conviction involving then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 threatened to derail his career. Even so, third album Graffiti (2009) made the Top 10 at the end of the decade. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century ...
22 in the Billboard 200. His honest, melancholy acoustic songs have set the scene on many a television drama. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | Rock Personalities | Rihanna | Twenty-First Century | Rock ...
Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on 17 October 1972 in Detroit, Michigan. The exact details of his upbringing there and in nearby Warren are unknown, suffice to say he was raised solely by his mother Debbie, and the upbringing, reputedly poverty-stricken, provided ample subject matter for much of the rapper’s lyrical material. 8 Mile And ...
and DVD release of Guitar Wars (2004). He has also written, recorded and toured with several artists, including Tantric, BBMak, Toni Braxton, Wyclef Jean and Rihanna, among numerous others. Essential Recordings 1991 Extreme: Pornograffitti 1997 Solo: Schizophonic 1998 Mourning Widows: Mourning Widows 2002 Population 1: Population 1 Personalities | Dickey Betts | The ‘Goldie’ Touch ...
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