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    A Girl Like Me

    Hip-hop and mall rock have all but replaced dance pop on American airwaves, but every once in a while a Euro-style club mash-up breaks through. Barbados-born emigre Rihanna's huge dancehall pop hit last year, "Pon De Replay," was savvy and sexy, and her new smash, "SOS," is even more so. Singing a s...

    2006 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Half-Guyanese and half-Barbadian, Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20th, 1988) began singing in primary school in her hometown of Saint Michael, Barbados, and in 2004, at age 16, had won a local beauty contest. A year prior, she'd sung for New York record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing on the island; Rogers was impressed enough to record demos for her in the U.S. She was si...

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