It takes talent and a significant dose of luck to land a record deal at the age of sixteen, and Barbados-born Rihanna had both when she signed with Def Jam in 2003. Producer Evan Rogers discovered her during a visit to the island, and Rihanna went on to impress Def Jam CEO Jay-Z so much that he grabbed her for a multi-album contract. Her first single “Pon de Replay” was released in June 2005, with the full album Music of the Sun following a month later. But it was the release of “S.O.S.” and the subsequent album A Girl Like Me that gave Rihanna her big break. Sampling from Soft Cell’s one-hit-wonder “Tainted Love,” “S.O.S.” was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially popular songs of 2006. Gradually, Rihanna moved away from dancehall and into a new aesthetic that married R&B, synth-pop, and hip-hop. This new direction yielded 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad, which featured the infectious singles “Umbrella” and “Shut Up and Drive.” In early 2009, she was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown en route to a pre-Grammy’s party. It was speculated that this ugly incident led to the dark and highly personal sound of Rated R, which was released in November of that year. The following year, she issued her fifth album, Loud.
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