Rihanna
may be a superstar now, but even RiRi had her doubters early on. One of
those doubters included famed label executive, L.A. Reid, detailed his
early encounters with Rihanna in his memoir, “Sing to Me: My Story of
Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who’s Next.”
“I first laid eyes on her in the hallway,” Reid said in a Billboard-published
excerpt from the book. “I didn’t know she was a singer or anything,
just a pretty girl standing outside somebody’s office.”
According to Reid, Jay Z
pushed for Rihanna to be heard. Afterwards, Reid asked Hov to sign the
singer on the spot. But even after the signing, Reid said the label
didn’t exactly believe in Rihanna’s star power.
“At the label, we thought Teairra Mari would be the big star,” he
explained. “We spent more time on her, did more work on her, paid more
attention to her. Rihanna already had a hit with ’Pon De Replay,’ but we
still thought it was the other girl.”
However, everything changed for Reid, he said, because of something Beyoncé said after a showcase.
“Beyoncé came up to me,” Reid wrote. “’That Rihanna girl,’ she said, ’she’s a beast.’”
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