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Selected biography i

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Leona Lewis was born in the London Civic of Islington, to Aural Josiah "Joe" Lewis, a youth worker from Guyana of Black African descent and Maria Lewis, a British social worker of Welsh, Italian and Irish descent. Her parents enrolled her at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, and from at that place she attended the Italy Conti Academy and the BRIT School. It was here that she learned to play instruments such equally the guitar and piano and began to write her ain songs in the promise of becoming a singer-songwriter. She initially trained in opera, simply changed direction, singing jazz and dejection, eventually leading to pop music, citing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Eva Cassidy as her master influences.

Selected biography ii

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Rihanna performing at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in 2008

Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, to Ronald and Monica Fenty. She has ii younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her male parent is Barbadian and Irish.

Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and so the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2004, she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant. She was an army cadet in a sub-armed services programme that trained with the armed services of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.

In 2003, friends introduced Rihanna and her two bandmates to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his married woman. The group auditioned for Rogers, who said that "the infinitesimal Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't be." She eventually moved to Connecticut to alive with Rogers and his wife. Rogers, forth with his partner, Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. to send to various recording companies. Rihanna's demo made its style to Def Jam, which invited her to audience for the characterization's then-president, Jay-Z, who chop-chop signed her.