(1988-)
Who Is Rihanna?
Popstar Rihanna signed with Def Jam records at age 16 and in 2005 released her first album Music of the Sun, which sold more than two million copies worldwide. She went on to release more albums and an array of hit songs, including "Unfaithful," "Umbrella," "Disturbia," "Take a Bow," "Diamonds" and "We Found Love." A global pop star with an unrelentingly edgy image, Rihanna has also won multiple industry accolades, including Grammys and MTV awards.
Early Life
Singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20, 1988, in St. Michael Parish on the Caribbean island of Barbados. She is the eldest of three children born to Monica Fenty, an accountant, and Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor. Rihanna's childhood was marred by her father's struggles with addictions to alcohol and crack cocaine and her parents' marital problems — they divorced when she was 14 years old.
Rihanna also struggled with crippling headaches for several years during her childhood, a condition she attempted to h
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3. Her background Born in St Michael, Barbados on the 20TH February 1988 Her full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty Rihanna is a Barbadian recording artist At the age of 16 she moved to the US to pursue her recording career 4. Genre and Target audience R&B, Pop, Hip Hop, Soul and Dance Rihanna’s target audience is primarily girls but boys being second Between the ages 17-19+ Rihanna is becoming quite a role model for teenagers having relationship problems recently due to the assault of Chris Brown Rihanna has been mainly focusing on making albums related to female empowerment 5. First Getting Signed At first her music connections to the industry came when she met a vocationing music producer called Evan Rogers Soon after they both moved to the big apple to search for a record deal After one meeting with Jay Z her big break came when she was signed to the legendary label on the spot in 2004! 6. Her Label Def Jam was created by Rick Rubin in his dorm room in Weinstein Hall in New York University Founded in 1984 Its first release was a single by his punk rock gro