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Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20th, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados.
Rihanna won a beauty pageant and performed Mariah Carey’s “Hero” in a school talent show.
After forming a girl group with two classmates, Rihanna, 15, auditioned for veteran producer Evan Rogers, who told Entertainment Weekly:
“The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist.” She eventually moves to Connecticut to live with Rogers and his wife, while cutting a four-song demo. “When I left Barbados, I didn’t look back,” Rihanna adds. “I wanted to do what I had to do, even it meant moving to America.”After signing with Def Jam in February 2005, she relocated to the United States.
She released her debut single, “Pon de Replay”, on August 22, 2005, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. It became a global hit where it peaked within the top ten across fifteen countries. Her debut album, Music of the Sun, was released in August 2005 in the United States. The album reached number ten on the Billboard 200, selling 69,000 copies in its first week. The album sold over two million copies worldwide and received a Gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting shipments to United States retailers of over 500,000 units.
A Girl Like Me was released in April 2006, less than eight months after her debut. The album reached number five on the Billboard 200 selling 115,000 copies in its first week and has been certified platinum by the RIAA, having shipped over one million units in the U.S. Internationally, the album peaked at number one on the Top Canadian Albums, five on the UK Albums Chart and number five on the Irish Album Chart.The second single, “Unfaithful”, became a major worldwide hit, reaching the top ten in dozen countries around the world, including the United States where it reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as topping the charts in Canada, France and Switzerland. The albums third single, “We Ride” failed to reprise the success of the lead single but the fourth single, “Break It Off” featuring Sean Paul, jumped from number fifty-two to number ten eventually peaking at number nine. After the release of the album, Rihanna embarked on her first headlining tour, the Rihanna: Live in Concert Tour. She then embarked on Jay-Z’s Rock The Block Tour and then toured with Pussycat Dolls from November 2006 to February 2007 in the United Kingdom. Rihanna also made her acting debut in a cameo role in the straight-to film Bring It On: All or Nothing, which was released on August 8, 2006.
With her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), Rihanna wanted to head in a new direction with the help of music producers Timbaland, will.i.am and Sean Garrett, and re-imagine her album compositions with fresh, uptempo dance tracks. She adopted a more rebellious image while recording the album, eventually dying her hair black and cutting it short. Rihanna commented, “I want to keep people dancing but still be soulful at the same time [...] You feel different every album, and [at] this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo [songs].” The album topped the charts in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Russia and Ireland and it peaked at number two in the United States and Australia. The album received positive reviews by critics, becoming her most critically acclaimed album at that time compared to her previous efforts.Good Girl Gone Bad yielded four chart-topping singles – all singles reaching the top three on the Billboard Hot 100 – including the worldwide number-one hit “Umbrella,” featuring Jay-Z.Rihanna was nominated in four categories at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, winning Monster Single of the Year and Video of the Year. In support of the album, she kicked off her second headlining tour The Good Girl Gone Bad Tour on September 12, 2007, with several shows across the United States, Canada and Europe.
At the 2008 Grammy Awards, Rihanna earned her first Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, in addition to receiving five other nominations, including Record of the Year, Best Dance Recording, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group and Best R&B Song.Rihanna won Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist at the 2008 American Music Awards. In December 2008, Margeaux Watson of Entertainment Weekly wrote an article entitled “Rihanna: Diva of the year.” Her fourth studio album, R, was released in November 2009. Rolling Stone was favorable of the album commenting that “Rihanna has transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year”. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of one million copies.
In January 2010, Rihanna won two Barbados Music Awards for “Song of the Decade” with “Umbrella” and “Entertainer of the Decade”. She was named “International Female Artist of the Year” at the 2010 NRJ Music Awards.
She also lent her vocals to the hook of “All of the Lights”, the fourth single from Kanye West’s fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which features additional vocals from several other recording artists, including John Legend, The-Dream, Elly Jackson, Alicia Keys, Fergie, Kid Cudi, and Elton John. In October 2010, she released a self-titled book, and announced that she was parting ways with manager Marc Jordan and will henceforth be managed by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Management. She is also starting her own company, Rihanna Entertainment, in which she will “merge all of her businesses including music, film, fashion, fragrance, and book ventures”.Rihanna performing on her Loud Tour, Rihanna released her fifth studio album, Loud, on November 16, 2010.It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling 207,000 copies in its first week, making it her biggest opening week of sales.Loud won the Favorite Soul/R&B Album at the 2011 American Music Awards; Rihanna won Best Female R&B Artist Of The Year at the 2011 BET Awards; Rihanna, who opened the 2011 Billboard Music Awards performing “S&M” with Britney Spears, won 3 awards: Top Female Artist, Top Radio Songs Artist, Top Rap Song; She also won the Best International Female Artist award at the 2011 BRIT Awards.
Rihanna’s sixth album, Talk That Talk, was released on November 21, 2011 in both deluxe and standard editions. The lead single “We Found Love” premiered on September 22, 2011 and was released the same day for digital download in the US. With the ascension of the track to number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, Rihanna became the fastest solo artist in the chart’s history to achieve twenty Hot 100 top ten singles, breaking the previous record set by Madonna. The song later became Rihanna’s eleventh number one single on the chart. With this, Rihanna became only the seventh artist in the 53-year history of the chart to amass at least eleven number one singles, behind The Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (18), Michael Jackson (13), Madonna (12), The Supremes (12) and tying with Whitney Houston, who also achieved eleven number one singles. Additionally, Rihanna moved into third place, tied with Houston, for the female artist with the most number one singles, behind Carey and Madonna. “We Found Love” ultimately spent ten non consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing “Umbrella” as Rihanna’s longest number one single, and was 2011′s longest-running number one in the country. In the UK, the single became Rihanna’s second solo single (third overall) to sell over one million copies in the country alone, after “Love The Way You Lie” and “Only Girl (In The World)” (2010).
At the end of 2011, Rihanna was named the highest-selling singles artist of the year in the UK, having overtaken Adele by a sales margin of 6,000 units.
On January 8, 2012, Rihanna was named the best-selling digital artist of all time in the United States, having sold 47,571,000 million singles and albums as of 2011, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Collaboration’ at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012, eventually winning the latter two awards, bringing Rihanna’s total Grammy awards to six. Later that month, Rihanna won her second BRIT Award for ‘Best International Female Artist’, following the same win the previous year.
Rihanna appeared as Petty Officer (GM2) Cora Raikes in the Peter Berg-produced film Battleship, which is loosely based on the game of the same name, released in May 2012. She chose this project because she wanted “to do something badass” and also because it wasn’t a role too big for her to play. Rihanna and the cast promoted the film in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Japan.
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