Makeba Riddick
{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Tone|date=April 2011}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Makeba Riddick
| background = non_performing_personnel
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|11|22}}
| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
| genre = {{hlist|R&B|pop|soul}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|vocal producer}}
| instrument = {{hlist|Keyboards|sampler}}
| years_active = 2002{{endash}}present
| label = {{hlist|Bad Boy|EMI|Roc Nation}}
| current_member_of = Cocaine 80s
}}
Makeba Riddick-Woods, also known as Girl Wonder, is an American songwriter and singer who has been active in the music industry since 2002.{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Makeba+Riddick|title=Makeba Riddick|website=Discogs|access-date=December 12, 2016}} Born and raised in West Baltimore,{{cite web|url=http://musicremedy.com/m/makeba-riddick/album/change-up-8234.html |title=Makeba Riddick release Change Up album |work=MusicRemedy |access-date=December 12, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214101104/http://musicremedy.com/m/makeba-riddick/album/change-up-8234.html |archive-date=February 14, 2015 }} Maryland, she signed with Jay-Z's Roc Nation in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://rocnation.com/makebariddick/ |title=The Official Website of Roc Nation – Makeba Riddick |date=May 2, 2012|access-date=December 12, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523034833/http://rocnation.com/makebariddick/ |archive-date=May 23, 2012 }}
Background
Riddick attended Baltimore School for the Arts before graduating from Berklee College of Music (Boston) with a bachelor's degree in Music Management. She moved to New York City to develop her career as a songwriter. Her early break came from songwriting and singing background vocals for 3LW, Jennifer Lopez and B2K.{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/535193|title=Makeba Riddick|author=Felicia J. Barclay|website=BMI.com|date=August 7, 2007 |access-date=March 9, 2015}}{{Cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/07/makeba-riddick-beyonc%C3%A9-and-rihannas-golden-girl.html|title=Makeba Riddick: Beyonce and Rihanna's 'golden girl'|date=July 8, 2010|website=LA Times Blogs – Pop & Hiss|language=en-US|access-date=February 10, 2017}}
Songwriting and vocal production
Riddick is best known for her work with multi-platinum selling pop artist Rihanna for whom she has vocally produced and collaborated on three albums with including A Girl like Me, Music of the Sun and Good Girl Gone Bad. She co-wrote and vocally produced the star's reggae influenced song "Rude Boy" from Rihanna's fourth studio album, Rated R. She also produced vocals for all the remaining tracks on the album, and co-wrote the intro track "Mad House".
Riddick has also collaborated with French DJ-come producer David Guetta, first the song "If We Ever" which is also her first solo credited vocal performance and taken from Guetta's 2009 Grammy-nominated album One Love. She also worked with Guetta to produce tracks for R&B singer Kelis's album Flesh Tone including the lead single and U.S. Dance Chart topper "Acapella". Riddick's other writing and production credits include Danity Kane's eponymous album; Beyoncé's U.S. radio hit "Get Me Bodied" from her second album B'Day; Braxton's 2005 album Libra and Jennifer Lopez's 2005 album Rebirth as well as platinum-selling work for Mariah Carey. She also worked in the studio with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins on material for Diddy – Dirty Money's delayed album Last Train to Paris.
Additionally she has worked on records for the British girl group Sugababes on the song "About a Girl" taken from their seventh studio album Sweet 7. The collaboration reached top ten in the UK. In America, Riddick was reunited with Toni Braxton when a record she wrote "Make My Heart" was released by Braxton as the second single from the star's upcoming album Pulse.
Makeba produced Rihanna's vocals for Eminem's single "Love the Way You Lie".
Solo career
Production and writing credits
| class="wikitable" |
| Date
! width="120"|Artist ! width="200"|Song ! Album ! Label |
|---|
| rowspan="3"|2002
| "All I Have" |rowspan="3"|Epic Records |
| B2K
| "You Can Get It" |
| 3LW
| "Ghetto Love & Heartbreak" |
| rowspan="6"|2005
| "So Lonely (One & Only Part 2) |
| Jennifer Lopez
| "Hold You Down" | Rebirth |
| Toni Braxton
| "Please" | Libra |
| Teairra Mari
| "M.V.P." |
| rowspan=2|Rihanna
| "If It's Lovin' That You Want" | rowspan=2|Music of the Sun | rowspan=2|Def Jam Records |
| "Let Me" |
| rowspan=11|2006
| rowspan=2|Rihanna | "We Ride" | rowspan=2|A Girl like Me | rowspan=2|Def Jam Records |
| "Unfaithful" |
| rowspan=2|Danity Kane
| "Touching My Body" | rowspan=2|Danity Kane | rowspan=2|Bad Boy Records |
| "Stay with Me" |
| Jessica Simpson
| "I Don't Want to Care" |
| Fantasia
| "Surround You" | Fantasia |
| JoJo
| "Let It Rain" |
| Taylor Hicks
| "Heaven Knows" |
| Cassie
| "Can't Do It Without You" | Cassie |
| Letoya Luckett
| "I'm Good" | LeToya |
| Brooke Hogan
| "Next Time" |
| rowspan="13" |2007
| rowspan="6"|Beyoncé | "Déjà Vu" | rowspan="6"|B'Day | rowspan="6"|Columbia Records |
| "Get Me Bodied" |
| "Suga Mama" |
| "Upgrade U" |
| "Creole" |
| "World Wide Woman" |
| rowspan="5"|Rihanna
| "Disturbia" | rowspan="5"|Good Girl Gone Bad | rowspan="5"|Def Jam Records |
| "Sell Me Candy" |
| "Say It" |
| "Push Up On Me" |
| "Question Existing" |
| The Cheetah Girls
| "Do No Wrong" |TCG |
| Katharine McPhee
| "Do What You Do" |RCA |
| rowspan="6" |2008
| T.I. | "Live Your Life" |
| Michelle Williams
| "Stop This Car" |
| Girlicious
|"Baby Doll" |
| Beyoncé
|"Ave Maria" |
| rowspan=2|Solange Knowles
|"Would've Been The One" | rowspan=2| Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams | rowspan=2|Geffen Records/Music World Entertainment |
| "Ode To Marvin" |
| rowspan=6|2009
| rowspan=2|Rihanna | "Mad House" | rowspan=2|Rated R | rowspan=2|Def Jam Records |
| "Rude Boy" |
| David Guetta
| "If We Ever" | One Love |
| Jadakiss
| "Hustle Hard" |
| Wale
| "Chillin'" |
| Tynisha Keli
| "RockStar" |
| rowspan="9" |2010
| "About a Girl" | Sweet 7 |
| Kelis
| "Acapella" |
| Nicki Minaj
| "Muny" |
| rowspan="3"|Toni Braxton
| "Make My Heart" | rowspan="3"|Pulse | rowspan="3"|Atlantic Records |
| "Lookin' At Me" |
| "The Wave" |
| Eminem
| Recovery |
| rowspan="2" |Rihanna
| rowspan="2" |Loud | rowspan="2" |Def Jam |
| "Skin" |
| rowspan="3" |2011
| Jennifer Lopez | "Take Care" | Love? |
| rowspan="2"|Common
| "Blue Sky" | rowspan="2"|The Dreamer/The Believer | rowspan="2" |Def Jam, Warner Bros. |
| "Raw (How You Like It)" |
| rowspan="2"|2012
| rowspan="2"| Rita Ora | "Uneasy" | rowspan="2"| Ora | rowspan="2"| Roc Nation, Columbia |
| "Young, Single & Sexy" |
| rowspan="8" |2013
| rowspan="2" |Coco Jones | "Holla At The DJ" | rowspan="2" |Made Of EP | rowspan="2" |Hollywood Records |
| "Made Of" |
| rowspan="3" |Tamar Braxton
| "Hot Sugar" | rowspan="3" |Love and War | rowspan="3" | Streamline Records/Interscope |
| "Love and War" |
| "She Did That" |
| Jessica Sanchez
| "No One Compares (Featuring Prince Royce)" | rowspan="1" | Interscope |
| Prince Royce
| "Already Missing You (Featuring Selena Gomez)" |
| Zara Larsson
| "Cash Me Out" | Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself (EP) | rowspan="1" | TEN Music Group/Universal Music Group |
| rowspan="3" |2015
| rowspan="3" |Tamar Braxton | rowspan="3" |Calling All Lovers | rowspan="3" |Streamline Records/Epic Records |
| "Must Be Good To You" |
| "A.S.A.P" |
| rowspan="1" |2016
| rowspan="1" |Lion Babe | "Jump Hi" | rowspan="1" |Begin | rowspan="1" |Interscope Records/Polydor |
| rowspan="3" |2017
| rowspan="1" |Star Cast | "Unlove You" | rowspan="1" |Star (Season 1) Soundtrack | rowspan="1" |Epic Records |
| rowspan="2" |Tamar Braxton
| "Run Run" | rowspan="2" |Bluebird of Happiness | rowspan="2" |Streamline Records/Epic Records |
| "Pick Me Up" |
| rowspan="2" |2018
| rowspan="2" |Koryn Hawthorne | "Unstoppable" | rowspan="2" | Unstoppable | rowspan="2" |RCA Inspiration/Sony Music |
| "Won't He Do It (Remix)" |
References
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{{Grammy Award for Best Rap Song}}
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Category:Berklee College of Music alumni
Category:African-American women singer-songwriters
Category:American women singer-songwriters
Category:Singers from Baltimore
Category:21st-century African-American women singers
Category:21st-century American women singers