Amber Riley
Amber Riley, a Compton Native, started her career on the hit tv show “Glee”… Read Full Bio ↴Amber Riley, a Compton Native, started her career on the hit tv show “Glee”. She now performs as RILEY.
As a member of the Glee Cast, Riley sang numerous solos, including "Bust Your Windows", "Hate on Me", "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", "Beautiful", "I Look To You", "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and an original song "Hell To The No."
At the age of seventeen, Riley auditioned for American Idol but was turned down by the producers. Amber graduated from La Mirada High School, La Mirada, California in 2004. In 2010, she had the honor of singing to President Obama, which she said was perhaps "the minute [her] life was made complete".
In 2013, Amber won the seventeenth season of ABC's dancing competition Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with the show's one and only six-time champion, Derek Hough. Riley and Hough tied the record for highest first-week score of 27, received 5 perfect scores of 30, and only received a score lower than 8 one time. Riley is the first African-American woman to win the show.
Since “Glee”, she has gone on to do films such a, “Nobody’s Fool” alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Tiffany Haddish. She has also tackled theatre stages playing Addaperle in “The Wiz” and Effie White in “Dreamgirls” which won her an Olivier Award. She released her debut album, an EP simply titled RILEY, in 2020.
As a member of the Glee Cast, Riley sang numerous solos, including "Bust Your Windows", "Hate on Me", "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", "Beautiful", "I Look To You", "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and an original song "Hell To The No."
At the age of seventeen, Riley auditioned for American Idol but was turned down by the producers. Amber graduated from La Mirada High School, La Mirada, California in 2004. In 2010, she had the honor of singing to President Obama, which she said was perhaps "the minute [her] life was made complete".
In 2013, Amber won the seventeenth season of ABC's dancing competition Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with the show's one and only six-time champion, Derek Hough. Riley and Hough tied the record for highest first-week score of 27, received 5 perfect scores of 30, and only received a score lower than 8 one time. Riley is the first African-American woman to win the show.
Since “Glee”, she has gone on to do films such a, “Nobody’s Fool” alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Tiffany Haddish. She has also tackled theatre stages playing Addaperle in “The Wiz” and Effie White in “Dreamgirls” which won her an Olivier Award. She released her debut album, an EP simply titled RILEY, in 2020.
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Amber Riley Lyrics
Ain't No Way Ain't no way for me to love you, If you won't…
All I Want For Christmas Is You I don't want a lot for christmas There's just one thing…
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going And I am telling you, I'm not going You're the…
Angels We Have Heard on High Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing over the plains…
Baby It's You She, she ain't real, She ain't gonna be able to love…
Beautiful Ooh yeah Ooh yeah Everyday is so wonderful And suddenly, it…
Bust Your Window I bust the windows out your car And it didn't mend…
Bust Your Windows I bust the windows out your car And it didn't mend…
Colorblind When the world is seeing yellow I only see gray When everybo…
Colour Blind When the world is seeing yellow I only see gray When everybo…
Don't Make Me Over Ooh Don't make me over Now that I'd do anything for you Don…
I Look to You And I am telling you, I'm not going You're the…
Lions And Tigers And Bears Whoa, whoa Confidently, I did the thing A woman like me sho…
Someone You Loved I′m going under and this time I fear there's no…
Try a Little Tenderness Oh she may get weary Them young girls they do get…