She’s gifted modern pop music with some of its biggest hits, but now it’s time That Grape Juice gifts Rihanna – with an ode to her greatest performances just in time for her birthday.
Indeed, while some will argue the singer’s inconsistent live acts – featuring their fair share of stage presence shortages and poor vocal displays – make it a difficult task to collect a number of qualitative stage showings, there are a wealth of demonstrations that prove such is simply not the case.
Over the course of 10 years and 7 albums worth of material, Ri has a bevy of memorable moments on stage. With her outstanding 2015 Grammy performance still fresh in our minds as evidence of her growing abilities, tuck in below to see our picks for the birthday girl’s best:
TGJ’s Top 5 Rihanna Performances
(In no particular order)
American Music Awards 2010 ‘Loud’ Medley
‘Where Have You Been’ live at SNL
‘Vogue’ Live at Fashion Rocks
‘FourFiveSeconds’ live at 2015 Grammys
‘Stay’ Live at SNL
Honorable Mentions
‘California King Bed’ live at Country Music Awards
‘Diamonds’ Live at X Factor UK
Sound off on our picks and tell us some of your favorites below: