
She didn't release her next album, Anti, until 2016, and waited six more years to release any more music. She didn't slow down until 2013 when she left Def Jam and set up her own imprint on Jay-Z's label Roc Nation (Jay left Def Jam in 2007). Her next album, Good Girl Gone Bad, includes " Umbrella," her biggest hit. She was really good at it and seldom complained. The first single was "SOS."ĭef Jam kept Rihanna on a breakneck schedule, furiously recording, touring, and promoting. Instead of working more singles from the album, Def Jam had her quickly record another, A Girl Like Me, released in 2006 when she was 18. That was followed by " If It's Lovin' That You Want," which reached #36.

In 2005, he signed Rihanna and, later that year when she was 17, released her first single, " Pon De Replay," which climbed to #2. They put together a demo tape that got the attention of Jay-Z, who had recently been appointed president of Def Jam Records. Over the next year, he and his partner Carl Sturken wrote songs for Rihanna and recorded them when she could take trips to America. He wasn't impressed with the other two girls, but he could tell Rihanna, 15 at the time, had something special.

An American singer/producer named Evan Rogers auditioned the group in 2003 when he was there on vacation with his wife, who is Bajan. She and two of her friends sang as a trio on the island, performing at showcases and talent shows. She's from Barbados, with musical influences in dancehall and R&B. In Argentinian Spanish the diphthongs finished in 'i' in the conjugations, lose it:"SOS" was the first of 14 US #1 hits for Rihanna, counting her appearances as a featured artist. "Vuestra Merced" was used instead, which then evolved into "Vusted" which finally evolved into "Usted".īut it wasn't changed in Argentina (I don't know the reasons, but maybe because it's far away from the Iberian Peninsula).

In fact in medieval Spanish, "Vos" was used instead of "Usted" for the formal pronoun, but as it was used by many peasants and normal people it started to lose it's formality. The subject is "Vos" which means "Tú" or "Vosotros" in Argentina. "Sos" it's used in Argentina and means "Sois".
