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Rihanna



Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), who performs under the mononym Rihanna (pronounced /riːˈɑːnə/), is a Barbadian singer, model, and former beauty queen. She also serves as the cultural ambassador for Barbados.[1] She is the first Barbadian artist to win a Grammy Award.[2][3]a[›] Rihanna is currently signed to the Def Jam Recordings label.[4] She has attained five Billboard Hot 100 number ones thus far ("SOS", "Umbrella", "Take a Bow", "Disturbia" and T.I.'s "Live Your Life").[5]

Rihanna broke into the recording industry in 2005 with the release of her debut album, Music of the Sun, which features the number 2 hit single "Pon de Replay". Less than a year later, Rihanna released A Girl Like Me and earned her first number-one single, "SOS". In 2007, Rihanna released her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad. Along with the Reloaded edition, the album has yielded eight singles,[6] including "Umbrella", "Don't Stop the Music", "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia".

1988–2004: Early life and recording contract

Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, to Ronald and Monica Fenty. She has two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.[7] Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her father is Afro-Barbadian and caucasian.[8]

Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2004, she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant.[9] She was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant. [10]

In 2003, friends introduced Rihanna and her two bandmates to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. The group auditioned for Rogers, who said that "the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist." She eventually moved to Connecticut to live with Rogers and his wife. Rogers, along with his partner, Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. to send to various recording companies. Rihanna's demo made its way to Def Jam, which invited her to audition for the label's then-president, Jay-Z, who quickly signed her.[9][11][12]