21
Genre:R&B&POP&ROCK
Released album: 2011
Tracks number: 11
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Adele:Biography
Adele
Date of Birth
5 May 1988, Tottenham, London, England, UK
Birth Name
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demos on MySpace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19 was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK. 19 was certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Liveappearance in late 2008. Adele released her second album, 21 in 2011.The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut commercially.21has been certified 14 times platinum in the UK; in the US the album became the longest an album has held the top position since 1998.
The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book Of World Records. She is the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK.With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", Adele became the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964.21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK albums chart and the tied for the longest cumulative stay at number one by a female solo artist as well.Adele has also received two Grammy awards, for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Rihanna: Music Of The Sun
Music Of The Sun
Genre: R&B
Released album: 2005
Tracks number: 13
Rihanna: Biography
RihannaDate of Birth
20 February 1988, St. Michael, Barbados
Birth Name
Robyn Rihanna Fenty
Nickname
RiRi
Caribbean Queen
The Barbados Babe
Rihanna was born in a parish in Barbados called St. Michael. She lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top sixth form school. Rihanna won numerous beauty pageants and performed Mariah Carey "Hero" in a school talent show. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers, a producer from New York who was in Barbados for a vacation with his wife, who is a native. Rodgers arranged for her to go to New York to meet Jay-Z, CEO of Def Jam Records. He heard her sing and knew she was going to be incredibly successful. She was 16 when she was signed to Def Jam. Since then, she's amassed phenomenal success.
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