Ebony Riley

Known to the fashion world as Riley Montana, Ebony Riley also makes deeply passionate contemporary R&B under her birth name. Unfulfilled by a highly successful modeling career that took flight in the early 2010s, Riley pursued her main passion and landed a recording contract with Interscope in 2020. The New York-based Detroit native made her commercial debut three years later with Ebony (2023), an EP she wrote to help heal from a relationship. Although it contained cathartic tracks such as "Deuce Deuce" and "Why," it also showed Riley's more humorous side on the Evelyn "Champagne" King-inspired "Draws." Her handful of 2024-2025 singles includes "Mirror," an early-'90s throwback produced by heavyweights Bryan-Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri.