Rihannanickname of Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988, St. Michael Parish, Barbados), Barbadian pop and rhythm-and-blues (R&B) singer became a world star at the beginning of the 21st century, known for her distinctive versatile voice and fashionable appearance. She also known for her beauty and fashion lines.
Early life
Fenty is grew up in Barbados with a father from Barbados and a mother from Guyana. As a child she listened to Caribbean music, such as reggae, as well as American hip-hop and R&B.
She especially enjoyed singing and won a high school talent show with a rendition of a Mariah Carey song. Around the same time, she started a girl group with two friends and in 2004 she caught the attention of Evan Rogers, an American record producer. This helped Rihanna record a demo which led to an audition with rapper Jay-Z, who was the head of the Def Jam record label at the time. For her professional career, she adopted her middle name, Rihanna.
Musical career
With the single effervescent “Pon de Replay” (2005), with dancehall influences, Rihanna immediately captured an international audience. The song’s success buoyed the sales of her debut album, Music of the Sun (2005), in which traditional R&B ballads shared space with Caribbean-flavored dance-pop that showcased her melodious Barbadian lilt. Rihanna soon gave success to her new album A Girl Like Me (2006), with the beat “SOS” This has become the first song by Rihanna to top the Billboard singles chart.
For Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), Rihanna tried to transform her youthful image. With the assistance of high-profile collaborators like Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, she shed the tropical beats that had graced her first two albums and recorded a collection of elegant R&B that presented her as a fiercely independent and rebellious woman. (She also unveiled a spiky, asymmetrical hairstyle.)
The move paid off, as thealbum has sold several million copies worldwide and its lead single anthem, Umbrellafeaturing an introductory rap from Jay-Z, became one of the year’s biggest hits and earned Rihanna a Grammy Award.
Subsequent works: Rated R, Talk That Talk and Unapologetic
Early 2009 Rihanna was beaten by her boyfriendthe fellow R&B star Chris Brown. This incident was covered extensively in tabloid news and gossip blogs. After their separation, however, the singer has been convicted of assault.
The album that followed later that year, Rated Rmuch of which she co-wrote, featured a cold and raw production and from threatening texts that involved vengeance. Although his sales dipped slightly, he scored another big hit with “Rude Boy”.
In early 2011 the sexually provocative single from the album “S&M” became her tenth Billboard number one, which made her, at the age of 23, the youngest artist to reach that milestone. Included in the total were major collaborations with hip-hop artists TI and Eminem which has appeared on his albums; many felt that her vocals on the latter’s “Love the Way You Lie” (2010) resonated with the song’s depiction of an abusive relationship.
Rihanna for a long time kept the figure steely and seductive character in the albums Talk That Talk (2011), which produced the international hit “We Found Love”, and Unapologetic (2012), whose outstanding “Diamonds”. The latter version also featured a controversial duet with Brown, with whom she rekindled her relationship for a short time.
Her eighth studio album, Anti, was released in 2016. Rihanna started working on a new record, but was delayed as the singer took a break from music. However, he later wrote and starred “Lift Me Up” for the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). For her work on the single, Rihanna received her first Academy Award nomination, for Best Original Song. In 2023, she returned to the stage for the first time in about four years, performing at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Other Activities: Acting and Fenty Beauty
In addition to her music career, Rihanna has acted in films battleship (2012) e This Is the End (2013). He also has voiced one of the main characters of the animated adventure Home (2015). Rihanna later appeared as hackers in Ocean’s 8 (2018), a female-led reboot of the early 2000s Ocean’s Eleven franchise. In 2019, she starred with Donald Glover in the musical Guava Island; film that premiered at the Coachella Valley Festival before streaming on Amazon.
After collaborated on several collections of cosmetics In the early 2010s, Rihanna launched her own line, Fenty Beautyin 2017. The brand has created a huge fan following and has been praised for its inclusiveness in offering 40 different shades of foundation.
Later launched (2018) Savage X Fenty, a clothing line Of lingerie And loungewear. In 2019 Rihanna collaborated with LVMH Moët Hennessy—Louis Vuitton to create the Fenty fashion line. That’s how she became first black woman to head a fashion house at LVMH, the largest luxury goods company in the world. Fenty’s first collection was released that same year. However, the line struggled and in 2021 Fenty was put on hold “pending better terms”.
Private life
Rihanna’s personal life has attracted intense media attention. Hers His tumultuous relationship with Brownespecially the incident of Domestic violence of 2009, was fodder for the tabloids.
Afterwards she dated Canadian rapper Drake. In 2021 Rihanna was in a relationship with rapper ASAP Rocky. The couple welcomed a baby boy the following year. In 2023 Rihanna revealed she was pregnant again by performing at the Super Bowl halftime show with a visible baby bump; Her reps later confirmed that the singer was expecting her second child.