Rihanna Tours Updated
rowena on Jan 30th 2009
Robyn Rihanna Fenty (better known as simply “Rihanna”), the 19 year old singing sensation from Barbados, exploded onto the R&B and pop charts in 2005 with her debut album Music of the Sun, and she hasn’t slowed down since. Now she’s on tour in support of her latest album, 2007’s Girl Gone Bad.
She is the first Barbadian artist to officially win a Grammy Award. Rihanna is currently signed to the Def Jam Recordings label. She has attained five Billboard Hot 100 number ones thus far (”Umbrella”, “SOS”, “Take a Bow”,”Disturbia” and Live Your Life), four as a solo artist and one as featured artist, and is currently tied with Beyonce as the female solo artist with the most number ones in this decade.
Watch Rihanna live from the following music videos.
Ray LaMontagne, the well known music star was born in New Hampshire. Ray Lamontagne did not have a good and settled childhood. Ray’s family was sadly, “just passing through.” Ray’s father was a very good musician from Nashville; and Ray Lamontagne was one of the six beautiful kids that his beloved mother raised. Ray really worked hard and then continued to follow his deep inspiration. By 1999, he really put together a sizzling ten-song demo tape of his superb songs. The very good recorded demo would become his well known entry ticket to the blazing musical world. The good demo eventually reached well known Jamie Ceretta at the famous Chrysalis Music Publishing.
Is it ‘fate’ or ‘destiny’ or ‘a calling? The fact is that some people are born to sing and create music. If you ask any of the ‘legends’ in the music business, chances are you’ll get a variation on the idea that music is and always has been the artist’s most natural expression. John Legend’s debut studio album, 2004’s Get Lifted, became a multiplatinum-selling hit, thanks in part to collaborations with Kanye West and Snoop Dog. Two years later he released Once Again, which also went platinum, and now he’s just finished his third studio album, 2008’s Evolver. Evolver is a slight departure from Legend’s earlier work, with more of an upbeat feel. The first single from the new album, “Green Light”, features a collaboration with Andre 3000 of Outkast, and is already shooting up the charts.
One of the most delightful and engrossing musicians of our times; the highly popular Derek Trucks Band has been enthralling audiences for over 10 years now. Their unique musical style which wonderfully assimilates elements of jazz, rock, and blues with undertones of Latin, Eastern Indian music has drawn them considerable critical acclaim.
She began singing as a teen and was born as Annie Mae Bullock at Brownsville, Tennessee. Who is she? No other than Tina Turner! The most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music, Tina Turner oozed sexuality from every pore in a performing career that began the moment she stepped onstage as lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the late ’50s. Her gritty and growling performances beat down doors everywhere, looking back to the double-barreled attack of gospel fervor and sexual abandon that had originally formed soul in the early ’50s. Divorced from Ike in the mid-’70s, she recorded only occasionally later in the decade but resurfaced in the mid-’80s with a series of hit singles and movie appearances; her high-profile status was assured well into the ’90s.
Keith Urban started singing at an early age. He grew up in Australia and began taking guitar lessons at the age of six. His natural musical talent and charisma soon led to his participation in children’s theatre, where he first began to sing. His father was delighted to have a musical talent in the family. Urban’s father was very interested in American culture and country music, and he passed that interest on to his son. Young Keith Urban grew up listening to Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams. He was steeped in country music.
Lobster Newberg offers you an innovative debut CD that will satisfy your musical appetite. These contemporary artists from Chicago suburbia are astounding audiences with their intuitive imagination, in a style reminiscent of Pink Floyd and King Crimson. The band is consists of Colin Peterik, Phil Miller, Jamie Dull and Corey Kamerman. Take finely tuned genres, blend them into a series of songs reeling with the technical ability of this unique band, and you have a sound for which we have long awaited. Constantly challenging themselves to produce music that is intriguingly inventive, they reach into unconventional territory. Lobster Newberg offers a modern concept in music which is hard to find today. While members all have different tastes in music, they create songs that are a breath of fresh air. Fans have found their music an unexpected welcome in a music scene that is stagnant. Colin Peterik who nimbly runs the keyboard also sings on the tracks. “Our music doesn’t age. Listen to it now or 20 years from now. It’ll still be new… it’ll still be fascinating.”
Andre Rieu is the man who has started a revival in the waltz genre and has made classical music more approachable and accessible to all. Rieu is primarily a violinist but his work in the classical and waltz genres has made him an important name in the music field today, as he has single-handedly injected life into two forms of music that usually wore the stamp of ‘Members Only’.
Shinedown is a famous American hard rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. From the very start it had 4 members and was formed in 2001, thanks to the bands vocalist, Brent Smith. The band has released three albums up to date. Shinedown is perfect at mixing numerous music styles and producing their own music with wild sound of guitar and cutting-edge metallic mayhem. This music is serious and hard and it has nothing in common with modern so-called pop rock!
Being born in a royal music family is not easy. It’s not a new idea for the son of a country-music legend to follow in his father’s footsteps. Hank III is a country singer and belongs to Country Music’s Royal Family, The Hank Williams Family. His full name is Shelton Hank Williams III and he was born on 12th December, 1972 in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the grandson of the legendary Hank Williams and the son of Hank Jr. He was already country music royalty before he sang a single note. Hank Williams, Jr. developed a tremendous following because of (or in spite of) his father’s status, and more recently, Bobby Bare, Jr. took on a version of the country-rock music his father, Bobby Bare, cranked out a couple of decades ago. But now we have a unique phenomenon, a third generation of oncoming legendary music in the person of Hank Williams III.
Willie Hugh Nelson came from the town of Abott, Texas and was born on April 30th, 1933. It didn’t take long for Willie to discover his love for music and at the tender age of four he gave his first public performance. He released the singles “Touch Me”, “Willingly” and the album And Then I Wrote in 1962. Willie Nelson recorded a total of 77 studio albums, 11 of which have gone gold, platinum or multi-platinum. He has released 93 solo singles, five live albums, 12 compilation albums, and 20 collaboration albums with artists such as Brenda Lee, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and Johnny Cash. Now with over 35 years of performing behind him and over 100 albums under his belt, Willie Nelson is indisputably one of the greatest writers and most accomplished guitar players of all time.
Gin Blossoms are no one-hit wonders. They’re slow bloomers, and their story actually starts more than a decade before the release of NME, in their hometown of Tempe, Arizona.
They are one of the most influential band in the music industry and they have been there for a long time. “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” This is a lyric from one of the Dead’s best known songs and embodies the long history of this band. The Dead is composed of former members of the Grateful Dead, an innovative band in psychedelic and country rock. The Grateful Dead were best known for their cult-like following, trance-inducing songs and drug use. When Jerry Garcia died in 1995, the remaining members disbanded to pursue other projects. The band’s recordings include 1967’s The Grateful Dead, 1970’s American Beauty and 1987’s In the Dark.
Get doused with deep heavy musical sensations at Mudvayne concerts. The American metal band Mudvayne was actually a rap-metal group when lead singer Chad Gray, guitarist Greg Tribbett, bassist Shawn Barclay and drummer Matthew McDonough started in 1996 and self released their 1997 demo Kill, I Oughtta. In 1998 Shawn Barclay was replaced by Ryan Martinie and the band signed with Epic Records. Their debut studio album, 2000’s L.D. 50, spawned the hit “Dig” and rocketed Mudvayne to stardom. L.D. 50 went gold, as did their follow up albums, 2002’s The End Of All Things To Come and 2005’s Lost And Found. Now Mudvayne has a new album out, 2008’s The New Game, and the album’s first single, “Do What You Do”, is their fastest selling single to date.
From their beginnings as Oklahoma weirdos to their pop culture breakthrough in the mid-’90s to their status as one of the most respected groups of the 2000s, the Lips have ridden one of the more surreal and haphazard career trajectories in pop music. The Flaming Lips was formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City. Founder and guitarist Wayne Coyne allegedly stole some instruments from a local church hall and enlisted his brother Mark as vocalist and Michael Ivins to play bass. The group made their debut at a local transvestite club and began progressing through an endless list of drummers. Before recording their self-titled debut issued on green vinyl on their own Lovely Sorts of Death label, they recruited Richard English to play drums.
Being the main man of the band the Genesis in the early ’70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. English born Peter Gabriel has been one of the world’s favorite artists since the 70s. He was the lead vocalist of Genesis for eight years, beginning in 1966, in the midst of the progressive rock era. After making a name for himself, he went solo with his debut album, Peter Gabriel 1 which put him in the experimental pop world. With his songwriting talent and unique style, and accompanied by attention-grabbing rock videos, he was a growing icon among the UK’s top artists.
Asexual, aloof, tortured and yearning to break free from the humdrum chains of daily life, Irish transplant Sean Patrick Morrissey, lyrical formulator for influential pre-Britpop monoliths The Smiths, has had a distinguished career as a solo artist.
The thrashing sound of Disturbed began to build a following on Chicago’s south side. The heavy metal band formed as Disturbed in 1997. Disturbed came together when guitarist Dan Donegan, drummer Mike Wengren, and bassist Fuzz joined up with singer David Draiman. The addition of Draiman to the band is what provided the cohesion needed for the band to strike out. Draiman grew up in a religious family. He rebelled from his parent’s strict rule and was eventually expelled from five boarding schools during his youth. Like many hard rockers, metal music became an outlet for pent up anger. Draiman was no exception.