She was ranked number eight on Maxim’s Hot 100 Women list in 2007. Good Girl Gone Bad was her redefining album, which exposed her fierce, strong personality through an R&B-inspired album. RiRi released her album “Good Girl Gone Bad” in 2007. Her release of S.O.S in 2006 was her first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2006 Rihanna created the Believe Foundation, which was designed to help terminally ill children. Her second album, “A Girl like Me,” was released just a year after her debut in April 2006.Īt the Barbados Music Awards in 2006, Rihanna won two awards Best New Artist and Best Female Artist of the Year. In August 2006, she had her first acting role in Bring it On: All or nothing. On Gwen Stefani’s “Harajuku Lover” tour in 2005, Rihanna was her opening act. Rihanna’s debut album “Music of the Sun” was released in August 2005, which reached number 10 on the Billboard 200 list, and over two million copies were sold worldwide. Rihanna’s sample tapes were sent to Def Jam Records, and it was Jay-Z who listened and signed her. Rogers invited Rihanna to record some sample tapes, including “Pon de Replay” in his studio in the US. Rihanna stood out as being the powerful voice, so she was invited for a second audition. In 2003 alongside two classmates, she formed a girl band in Barbados.Īmerican record producer Evan Rogers discovered the trio and invited them for an audition. When Rihanna was 16, she won her high school beauty pageant. Rihanna grew up listening to reggae music and started to study music at school. RiRi attended army cadets when she was at school, and her drill sergeant was singer Shontelle.Īt age 15, she won a talent show by singing “Hero” by Mariah Carey. She has two biological brothers, two half-sisters, and a half-brother. Her parents divorced when she was just 14 years old. Her father is Irish-Barbadian, and her mother is Afro-Guyanese. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, and grew up in Bridgetown, Barbados. Her star sign Pieces, meaning she is dreamy and romantic. Here are 45 fabulous facts about Rihanna that you should know. Her elaborate live shows and catchy tunes have people of all ages dancing and singing along.īut do you know how it started for Rihanna? Or where she comes from? Her Beauty line Fenty has been described by Essence magazine as "a love song to women of colour", in the way it's inclusive of shades that "all women of colour can find themselves in.Rihanna is one of the world’s most influential female singer-songwriters of the 21 st century. She won a Grammy a couple of years later for the single Umbrella featuring Jay-Z, with her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad selling several million copies worldwide. Pon de Replay was the song that propelled her into international stardom in 2005. Rihanna became a worldwide star when her distinctive voice hit airwaves across the world, after she was signed to rapper Jay-Z's record label. "I love you guys and I pray that the youth continue to push Barbados forward." Rihanna, the global superstar "I'm going to be a Bajan till the day I die, and this is still the only place I've ever called home. The singer said the people of Barbados are the true heroes, and she takes pride in calling Barbados home. It's also a day that I never saw coming." "This is a day that I will never, ever forget. ( Reuters: Jonathan Brady )īut the "new Queen" of Barbados is arguably Rihanna, who expressed surprise when crowned a national hero. The singer was honoured at the Presidential Ceremony marking the birth of the new Barbados republic.
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