Robyn Rihanna Fenty

Birth name, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was born February 20, 1988, she is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman, diplomat, actress and songwriter. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, and raised in Bridgetown, Rihanna was discovered by American record producer Evan Rogers in her home country of Barbados in 2003.

Throughout 2004, she recorded demo tapes under the direction of Rogers and signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for its then-president, hip hop producer and rapper Jay-Z. In 2005, Rihanna rose to fame with the release of her debut studio album Music of the Sun and its follow-up A Girl like Me in 2006, which charted in the top 10 of the US Billboard 200 and respectively produced the successful singles “Pon de Replay”, “SOS” and “Unfaithful”.

With the release of her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad in 2007, Rihanna developed a public image as a sex symbol and incorporated more elements of dance-pop into her music. It became a major breakthrough in her career and earned Rihanna her first Grammy Award at the 2008 ceremony.

Recorded after her assault by her then-boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, her fourth studio album, Rated R in 2009, is distinguished for its dark themes and lyrical content. Her pop-influenced fifth studio album, Loud in 2010, proved successful producing three Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, “Only Girl (In the World)”, “What’s My Name”, and “S&M”.

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Rihanna followed this success with the follow-up albums, Talk That Talk in 2011, and the Grammy Award winner Unapologetic in 2012. Her eighth studio album, Anti in 2016, became her second Billboard 200 number one album and was one of the most streamed albums of the year.

Recognized as a pop icon, She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with 280 million records sold worldwide. Many of her songs rank among the world’s best-selling singles of all time, including the singles “Umbrella”, “Take a Bow”, “Disturbia”, “Only Girl (In the World)”, “S&M”, “We Found Love”, “Diamonds”, “Stay” and “Work”, as well as her collaborations “Live Your Life” with T.I., “Love the Way You Lie” and “The Monster”, both with Eminem.

She is the youngest solo artist to earn fourteen number-one singles and has a total of thirty one top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100, she also has over thirty top-tens in the United Kingdom and Australia, making her the only artist in the 21st century to achieve that.

Rihanna was named the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s century, the top Hot 100 artist of the 2000s century, as well as the all-time top Pop Songs artist by Billboard. Additionally, she is Spotify and Apple Music’s most streamed female artist of all time.

Among numerous awards and accolades, she has won nine Grammy Awards, thirteen American Music Awards and twelve Billboard Music Awards. Rihanna currently holds six Guinness World Records. Furthermore, she was awarded with the inaugural American Music Award for Icon in 2013 and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2016.

She received the Fashion Icon lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2014. In 2012, Forbes ranked her the fourth most powerful celebrity, while Time included her on the annual list of the most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2018. Rihanna was named Harvard University’s “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Harvard Foundation in early 2017.

Rihanna was appointed as an Ambassador on behalf of the government of Barbados in 2018, with her duties involving the promotion of education, tourism and investment.

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