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Rihanna really knows how to fire up and tease her audience, it seems to come naturally to her. The tight, steamy and frenzied acts will always be part of her sexy persona. Of course, her legions of fans will relish even the cacophony of her performance and would go the extra mile just to see their pop idol perform on stage. A typical Rihanna performance will always be about the drowning out of the dayGs concerns by the mesmerizing gyrations and dizzying beats that dominate her performance.

On stage and adorned with skimpy costumes that leave almost nothing to the imagination, Rihanna elegantly struts and strides with total abandon. This will always be her unique signature and what distinguishes her from other notable artists like Beyonc?. The word ?just dance? is plastered on stage when Rihanna performs. For her adoring fans, every Rihanna performance is a cause for celebration.

Rihanna is the ultimate performer and if only for this, we need to get out there and go to the concert venues. Seeing a sexy Rihanna is not even the appetizer for a long-drawn performance. From the time she materializes from the outsized ball and wearing a flashy blue jacket amid the blinding play of lights, you are sure that there are a lot of things in store during her run on stage. The moment she starts her performance, everything else is driven back to the backburner. And for the next couple of hours, this pop siren gives everything that she has to her audience ? no distractions at all.

Rihanna, Robin Rihanna Fenty, was born in Saint Michael, Barbados in 1988. At a very tender age, she already showed signs of star quality, albeit in a different platform. She started strutting her talents and wares not on the performance stage but on the catwalk. A regular mainstay and winner in many beauty contests, Rihanna finally took the path that brought her international fame as a song artist when she started winning talent and singing contests.

Tucked in a ?remote? island of Barbados during her teen years, not many people expected her to achieve global fame as a song artist. The major change came when she had that fateful encounter with Evan Rodgers, who was spending a holiday in the West Indies with his wife, who is incidentally from the island of Barbados. Rogers was the man behind the success of notable personalities like Kelly Clarkson, Rod Stewart, Laura Pausini, Jessica Simpson and Christina Aguilera. It was Rodgers who introduced Rihanna to the mainstream musical entertainment scene. Her singing career was steered by the tandem of Carl Sturken and Rodgers.

This Barbados-born singing siren is acknowledged as one of the biggest pop artists, and has racked over 20 million in record sales. This is definitely a solid testament of her strong appeal to a broad range of audience. While it remains to be unsettled, her recent embroilment with her erstwhile partner, Chris Brown, may have drawn part of the attention from her music.

Some quarters cannot seem to delineate their biases from what can be perceived to be the actual impact of her personal struggles, and her livewire performance may create an impression that she is another Lindsay Lohan in the making. But for the more perceptible souls, the Chris Brown issue is just a minor distraction, and if we go by how she has been handling herself on stage during the height of the controversy, we would surely see that this is not the case. There is simply nothing that can spoil her performance or take the thunder away from her show, which is an interesting mix of odd sexually-laced beats and steps.

I guess we should not be surprised if the audience in her shows is dominated by perfumed gals in micro-minis and short dresses. All the screaming and cotton-candy scents are the perfect elements of a Rihanna show, and those who come to watch her perform will not have any reason to complain. There is that palpable feeling among her legion of followers that Rihanna will even do the back-flip routine just to deliver the kind of performance that leaves her indelible mark. With a set that includes popular Rihanna songs like Take a Bow, Disturbia, Umbrella and Only Girl, you will surely learn how to get a close up performance that defines entertainment at its best.

Everything appears to come from a well-laid script. The crowd cheers and goes wild, while Rihanna goes through her all too familiar routines. You see the bronze-skinned pop icon take on the stage while belting a bevy of hit songs. She goes through the sets amid a pool of colorful and bright neon lights. We are mesmerized by the spirited performance. There is nothing new or surprising as far as her performance is concerned. Things will always be the same ? she will take on the position at the top of the music charts with elegant style.
M.A.H.]]> http://www.bandonthe.net/dreamsight/blog/rihanna-the-artist-in-focus/ Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:34:50 +0000 Dreamsight