Cheryl Bridget Pepsii Riley is an American singer and actress Riley is best known for her music during the late 1980s through the early 1990s most notable 1988s RB ballad Thanks for My Child Riley also starred in multiple Tyler Perry stage plays and films After high school Riley worked as a nurse for disabled children before beginning her singing career Riley began her music career as a lead singer in the band Stargaze who released the single You Cant Have It in 1982 In November 1988 Riley topped the US RB chart and hit the Top 40 on the pop chart at No 32 with the ballad Thanks for My Child a song written by Full Force Her second LP Chapters was issued and yielded the singles How Can You Hurt The One You Love and a cover of Aretha Franklins 1968 hit Aint No Way Her third album All That was released by Reprise and featured the singles Gimme and Guess Im In Love After a hiatus from the entertainment industry Riley reemerged in the late 1990s by appearing on the songs I Love It and Look Around on The Beatnuts album A Musical Massacre She also starred in a number of gospel plays for bestselling playwright Tyler Perry including Madeas Class Reunion Madea Goes to Jail Why Did I Get Married Laugh to Keep from Crying Madeas Big Happy Family and A Madea Christmas She also appeared in the film versions of Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madeas Big Happy Family She is also starred in Tyler Perrys Madea Gets a Job 2012 and Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned 2014 Following her appearance on a number of tracks on the Diary of a Mad Black Woman soundtrack in 2005 the following year Riley released Let Me Be Me her first album in fourteen years In 2015 she released a new solo album entitled Still Believe
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