Rihanna Background Information And Pictures Of Rihanna

What Is Rihanna's Birth name?
 Robyn Rihanna Fenty

What Is Rihanna's Date Of Birth?
February 20, 1988 

Where Was Rihanna Born? 
St. Michael, Barbados

What Is Rihanna Occupations?
 Singer, performer and actor

What Genres Of Music Does Rihanna Sing?  
R&B, pop, dancehall, reggae, hip hop, dance

What Are The Names Of Rihanna Album?


Album Name              Year           Popular Singles 


Music of the Sun          2005          "Pon de Replay".
A Girl Like Me              2006           "SOS".
Good Girl Gone Bad      2007           "Umbrella", "Don't Stop the Music",
                                                     "Take Bow" and "Disturbia",
Rated R                        2009           "Russian Roulette", "Hard" and "Rude Boy"
Loud                            2010           "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?" and   "S&M"
Talk That Talk               2011           "We Found Love"


What Are Rihanna Accomplishments As A Recording Artists?


Rihanna Awards in her career so far include 5 American Music Awards, 8 Billboard Music Awards, 2 BRIT Awards and 6 Grammy Awards. She had a total of 11 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the youngest solo artist to achieve the feat. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade, and ranked her as the seventeenth top artist of the same decade. She is the highest-selling digital artist in US history, having sold 47,571,000 singles as of 2012. Also, she sold 7.3 million album units in the United States as of September 2011. Some of her singles have earned their place on the list of best-selling singles worldwide. Rihanna has sold more than 25 million albums and 60 million singles worldwide since the beginning of her career in 2005, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time. In June 2011, Forbes reported that Rihanna had earned $29 million between May 2010 and May 2011.

Rihanna Brief History And Career Beginnings


Rihanna was born to parents Monica Braithwaite, a retired accountant, and Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor for a garment factory. Rihanna's mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese, and her father is of Barbadian and Irish descent. Rihanna is the eldest of her parents 3 children. She has two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. She also has two half-sisters and a half-brother from her father's side, each born by different mothers before Rihanna's father married her mother. Rihanna grew up listening to reggae music and began singing at around the age of seven. Her childhood was deeply affected by her father's addiction to crack cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana, and her parents' unstable marriage ended when she was 14. She grew up in a 3-bedroom bungalow in Bridgetown and sold clothes with her father on a street stall. Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School and then the Combermere High School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates. Rihanna was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and fellow Barbadian and singer-songwriter Shontelle was her drill sergeant. Although she initially wanted to graduate from high school, she chose to pursue her musical career instead.



Before signing to Def Jam Recordings, Rihanna was discovered in her home country Barbados by American record producer Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers. The two met in December 2003 through mutual friends of Rihanna's and Rogers' wife, while the couple was on vacation in Barbados, because of how Rihanna's friend had told Rogers' wife how the aspiring singer was always singing and performing. After meeting for the first time, Rogers' asked Rihanna to come to his hotel room, where she performed renditions of Destiny's Child's "Emotion" and Mariah Carey's "Hero". Rihanna's renditions impressed Rogers, who then took her to New York, where she was accompanied by her mother, Monica, to record some demo tapes which could be sent to record labels. Production of the demo tapes took about a year, due to Rihanna only being able to record during school holidays. At the age of 16, Rihanna was signed to Rogers' and Carl Sturken's production company, Syndicated Rhythm Productions, who assigned her a lawyer and manager, before the completed demo tape was distributed to various record labels around the world in late 2004. The first to respond to the demo tape was Jay-Z, who had recently been appointed as president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings. Rihanna auditioned for him and music mogul L.A. Reid, in his office. Looking back on the audition and meeting Jay-Z, Rihanna explained in an interview how she felt before walking into the room, saying:

That's when I really got nervous. I was like: 'Oh God, he's right there, I can't look, I can't look, I can't look!' I remember being extremely quiet. I was very shy. I was cold the entire time. I had butterflies. I'm sitting across from Jay-Z. Like, Jay-Zee. I was star-struck.[20]

During the audition, Rihanna performed Whitney Houston's cover of "For the Love of You", as well as her first single "Pon de Replay" and "The Last Time", which were written and produced by Rogers and Sturken and would be included on her debut album Music of the Sun. Jay-Z was initially skeptical about signing Rihanna after he felt "Pon de Replay" was too big for her, saying "when a song is that big, it's hard for a new artist to come back from. I don't sign songs, I sign artists". The audition resulted in Rihanna signing a six-album record deal with Def Jam Recordings in February 2005, on the same day of the audition, with Jay-Z saying "There's only two ways out. Out the door after you sign this deal. Or through this window", meaning that he was not going to let her leave with signing a record deal. After signing to Def Jam Recordings, Rihanna cancelled other meetings with record labels and relocated from Barbados to New York to live with Rogers' and his wife. Rihanna explained the concept behind the title of the album to Kidzworld, saying that the sun is representative of native Caribbean culture, as well as herself, and that the album consists of music from her heritage.

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