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inogolo.com/pronunciation/d1124/Rihanna inogolo:pronunciation of Rihanna].</ref> (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20 1988) is a Barbadian singer,<ref>AskMen Editors, et al., (2006)., "Rihanna was born in Barbados on February 20, 1988."</ref> currently living in San Diego, California.<ref>Def Jam Records, et al. (2007). "Rihanna |Rihanna | Rihanna - Biography" Retrieved on 24 July, 2007 from http://www.rihannanow.com/ L.A. Design Studio, Def Jam Records</ref><ref>Def Jam Records, et al. (2007)., "If nothing else, it has been an eye[-]opening year for Barbados-born pop songstress [,] Rihanna.</ref><ref>AskMen Editors, et al., (2006). "AskMen.com - Rihanna Interview" Retrieved on 24 July, 2007 from http://uk.askmen.com/toys/interview_200/206_rihanna_interview.html IGN Entertainment: United States</ref><ref>http://www.ringsurf.com/online/55-rihanna.html</ref>//inogolo.com/pronunciation/d1124/Rihanna inogolo:pronunciation of Rihanna].</ref> (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20 1988) is a Barbadian singer,<ref>AskMen Editors, et al., (2006)., "Rihanna was born in Barbados on February 20, 1988."</ref> currently living in San Diego, California.<ref>Def Jam Records, et al. (2007). "Rihanna |Rihanna | Rihanna - Biography" Retrieved on 24 July, 2007 from http://www.rihannanow.com/ L.A. Design Studio, Def Jam Records</ref><ref>Def Jam Records, et al. (2007)., "If nothing else, it has been an eye[-]opening year for Barbados-born pop songstress [,] Rihanna.</ref><ref>AskMen Editors, et al., (2006). "AskMen.com - Rihanna Interview" Retrieved on 24 July, 2007 from http://uk.askmen.com/toys/interview_200/206_rihanna_interview.html IGN Entertainment: United States</ref><ref>http://www.ringsurf.com/online/55-rihanna.html</ref>

Early life

the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Sep/15/en/FP609150303.html Interview with Rihanna]. Honoluluadvertiser.com. September 15 2006.</ref> and Monica Fenty, her Guyanese(of an indian descent) mother.<ref>Rihanna: Brightest Star, allhiphop.com. September 2005</ref><ref>Interview with Rihanna. Morafire.com. Jan/Feb 2007.</ref> She has two younger brothers named Rorrey and Rajad. Rihanna went to Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then on to one of Barbados' Grammar (older secondary) schools, the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates. In 2004, she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant and performed in the Colours of Combermere School Show, singing Mariah Carey's "Hero". At the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. Rogers, along with his partner, Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. which was sent to various recording companies. One copy of Rihanna's work was sent to Jay-Z, who eventually signed her to Def Jam Records. Rihanna cites Alicia Keys, Beyoncé Knowles and her Caribbean background as major musical influences.<ref>http://top40.about.com/od/artistsls/p/rihannap.htm</ref> Rihanna also stated in an interview that her friend and former Island Def Jam record label artist Fefe Dobson was someone that she admired and looked up to, having a fellow artist writing, singing, and performing the music she truly loves.<ref>http://ahotmess.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/rihanna-performs-in-germany/</ref><ref>Rihanna: A Dream Come True</ref><ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1982597/bio</ref>//the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Sep/15/en/FP609150303.html Interview with Rihanna]. Honoluluadvertiser.com. September 15 2006.</ref> and Monica Fenty, her Guyanese(of an indian descent) mother.<ref>Rihanna: Brightest Star, allhiphop.com. September 2005</ref><ref>Interview with Rihanna. Morafire.com. Jan/Feb 2007.</ref> She has two younger brothers named Rorrey and Rajad. Rihanna went to Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then on to one of Barbados' Grammar (older secondary) schools, the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates. In 2004, she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant and performed in the Colours of Combermere School Show, singing Mariah Carey's "Hero". At the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. Rogers, along with his partner, Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. which was sent to various recording companies. One copy of Rihanna's work was sent to Jay-Z, who eventually signed her to Def Jam Records. Rihanna cites Alicia Keys, Beyoncé Knowles and her Caribbean background as major musical influences.<ref>http://top40.about.com/od/artistsls/p/rihannap.htm</ref> Rihanna also stated in an interview that her friend and former Island Def Jam record label artist Fefe Dobson was someone that she admired and looked up to, having a fellow artist writing, singing, and performing the music she truly loves.<ref>http://ahotmess.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/rihanna-performs-in-germany/</ref><ref>Rihanna: A Dream Come True</ref><ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1982597/bio</ref>

Music career

Music of the Sun

Main article: Music of the Sun

www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?JSESSIONID=SvDhGvgpzbQbQvLnzLtT6wt8wyT7fFlV9GLfLn2QWMFKvgcBCKtp!-1513679239&model.vnuArtistId=658897&model.vnuAlbumId=723346 http://www.billboard.com/bbcom...] Nielsen Business Media, Inc. </ref> <ref>Billboard.com editors, et al. (2007), states that Rihanna achieved chart position #1 in both the "Hot Digital Songs" and "Dance Radio Airplay" charts, with the remix "Pon de Replay (Norty Cotto Remix)" gaining chart position #1 in the "Hot Dance Music/Club Play" charts.</ref> The single itself was written by Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers alongside Rihanna herself and described by Rolling Stone magazine as a "poppy piece of dancehall reggae with slapping, syncopated beats recalling big-band jazz."<ref>Walters, Barry (September 8 2005). Music of the Sun Review. Rolling Stone. Accessed August 18 2007.</ref> However, despite Pon de Replay's commercial chart success, the album itself was rated 2½ out of 5 stars by Rolling Stone Magazine and described as lacking the replay value, ingenuity and rhythm of the single with "generic vocal hiccups and frills" of US R&B inflecting upon her "caribbean charm".<ref>[Walters, Barry. (2005)., -- "the rest of Music of the Sun lacks the single's immediacy and rhythmic ingenuity. Photogenic Rihanna suggests a young Mariah Carey minus the birdcalls, and the generic vocal hiccups and frills clearly learned from American R&B often overwhelm her Caribbean charm."]</ref> Since its release, the album reached the top 10 in both US and Canadian charts, gaining gold certification from the RIAA from selling 500,000 units and subsequent platinum certifications for selling 2 million units in various other countries. To further promote the album, Rihanna toured as an opening act for American pop singer Gwen Stefani.//www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?JSESSIONID=SvDhGvgpzbQbQvLnzLtT6wt8wyT7fFlV9GLfLn2QWMFKvgcBCKtp!-1513679239&model.vnuArtistId=658897&model.vnuAlbumId=723346 http://www.billboard.com/bbcom...] Nielsen Business Media, Inc. </ref> <ref>Billboard.com editors, et al. (2007), states that Rihanna achieved chart position #1 in both the "Hot Digital Songs" and "Dance Radio Airplay" charts, with the remix "Pon de Replay (Norty Cotto Remix)" gaining chart position #1 in the "Hot Dance Music/Club Play" charts.</ref> The single itself was written by Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers alongside Rihanna herself and described by Rolling Stone magazine as a "poppy piece of dancehall reggae with slapping, syncopated beats recalling big-band jazz."<ref>Walters, Barry (September 8 2005). Music of the Sun Review. Rolling Stone. Accessed August 18 2007.</ref> However, despite Pon de Replay's commercial chart success, the album itself was rated 2½ out of 5 stars by Rolling Stone Magazine and described as lacking the replay value, ingenuity and rhythm of the single with "generic vocal hiccups and frills" of US R&B inflecting upon her "caribbean charm".<ref>[Walters, Barry. (2005)., -- "the rest of Music of the Sun lacks the single's immediacy and rhythmic ingenuity. Photogenic Rihanna suggests a young Mariah Carey minus the birdcalls, and the generic vocal hiccups and frills clearly learned from American R&B often overwhelm her Caribbean charm."]</ref> Since its release, the album reached the top 10 in both US and Canadian charts, gaining gold certification from the RIAA from selling 500,000 units and subsequent platinum certifications for selling 2 million units in various other countries. To further promote the album, Rihanna toured as an opening act for American pop singer Gwen Stefani.

The second single, "If It's Lovin' That You Want", was considerably less successful than its predecessor, peaking at position #36 on the U.S Billboard Hot 100 and position #11 in the UK. A third single, "Let Me", was released only in Japan, where it was a big hit, reaching #8 on the charts.

When asked about the nature of the album by AskMen Magazine about the album itself, Rihanna noted that it was released quickly after she was discovered in her home as a means of portraying her image as a girl from a small area who had moved to a large country in line with her debut, and that her second album was released somewhat shortly thereafter to illustrate that in her time in the country she had grown up quickly enough to release another album.<ref>AskMen editors, et al. (2005), -- "I was just a little girl coming from Barbados into a big city and a big country, and doing all this promotion and it never stopped, I had to learn to fix a lot of stuff myself, but I feel like I've grown five years in just a year ... Music of the Sun was more like my introduction to the world: "Hey, I'm the girl from the Caribbean." This second album, this is a big step up from the first one. "</ref>

A Girl Like Me

Main article: A Girl like Me

In 2006, Rihanna participated in several endorsement deals, including for Nike and J.C. Penney. She released her second album, A Girl Like Me, in April 2006; less than eight months after the release of her first album. The album debuted at number five in the U.S. and number four in the UK. The lead single, "SOS", was used in her endorsement deal with Nike. The song became Rihanna's first number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it also debuted at number one on the Hot Digital Songs chart. "SOS" peaked at number one in Australia and number two in the UK. The second single, entitled "Unfaithful", was written by R&B singer Ne-Yo, and addresses the feelings of guilt that the protagonist of the song faces as she cheats on her boyfriend. The song became her third top ten hit in the U.S. and in the UK. The third single, "We Ride", wasn't as successful as her previous releases, failing to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, however, it became her fifth UK top 20 single, where it peaked at number 17 on that chart and peaked number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. Rihanna's fourth single from the album, "Break It Off" featuring Sean Paul, had already climbed to number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 based solely on airplay. It was released as a digital download on February 19, 2007, which made the song jump from number fifty-two to number ten and then eventually peak at number nine.

In total Rihanna has had 11 different number-ones on the Billboard charts and has had major success on the Hot Dance Club Play chart with four number-ones ("Pon De Replay", "SOS", "Unfaithful", and "We Ride"). When Rihanna received an endorsement deal from Clinique, she recorded a song written by Ne-Yo entitled "Just Be Happy" as part of the deal to promote their Happy fragrance. The song can be heard on her Myspace page. Rihanna also recently recorded a song called "Winning Women" with Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger for P&G’s female deodorant Secret.

Rihanna made her acting debut in a cameo role in Bring It On: All or Nothing, which was released on August 8, 2006; she also appeared on an episode of American soap opera All My Children and drama Las Vegas.

Good Girl Gone Bad

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Rihanna went into the studio in early 2007 with Ne-Yo, Stargate, and Timbaland among others to record her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad. The album was released on June 5, 2007. It features Jay-Z and Ne-Yo as featured artists. The first single, "Umbrella", featuring Jay-Z, was released on March 29, 2007, reaching number one in various countries, including the U.S. "Umbrella" was the #1 single in the UK for 10 consecutive weeks. It was the longest running #1 single since "Wet Wet Wet's¹" single "Love Is All Around", back in 1994, and the longest running #1 by a female artist since Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", which also topped the chart for 10 weeks in 1992. www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/2007/charts/hot100.html</ref>. However, Umbrella is the most succesfull song of 2007, getting 8,182,000 points on the United World Chart <ref>http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm</ref>. Then her second single, "Shut Up and Drive", was sent to radio stations on June 5, has so far peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her club airplay third single, "Don't Stop The Music" was premiered on BET's 106 & Park on July 20, 2007 and was released only in Canada. The song is also going to be released in the UK. However, the single was also released in parts of Europe, where it was a huge succes. The song peaked at #1 in countrys like Germany, France, The Netherlands and Austria.//www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/2007/charts/hot100.html</ref>. However, Umbrella is the most succesfull song of 2007, getting 8,182,000 points on the United World Chart <ref>http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm</ref>. Then her second single, "Shut Up and Drive", was sent to radio stations on June 5, has so far peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her club airplay third single, "Don't Stop The Music" was premiered on BET's 106 & Park on July 20, 2007 and was released only in Canada. The song is also going to be released in the UK. However, the single was also released in parts of Europe, where it was a huge succes. The song peaked at #1 in countrys like Germany, France, The Netherlands and Austria. www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003679153</ref> However due to the high serge in airplay and digital sales of "Don't Stop the Music", which was never released in the US, it might be replacing "Breakin' Dishes" as the fifth single.//www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003679153</ref> However due to the high serge in airplay and digital sales of "Don't Stop the Music", which was never released in the US, it might be replacing "Breakin' Dishes" as the fifth single.

www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558496/20070501/rihanna.jhtml Rihanna Loses Good Girl Image, Thanks to Jay-Z, Justin, Timbaland, Ne-Yo]</ref> In interviews, many have questioned the meaning and reasoning of the album title. The album title reflects the difference between the old and new Rihanna. "Bad means cool, bad means funky, bad means having an attitude, bad means being edgy. This album is definitely a great representation of who I am now, and where I am in my career," she says. Seven weeks after the album was released, it had gone gold in the United States and Platinum on the United World Albums Chart.//www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558496/20070501/rihanna.jhtml Rihanna Loses Good Girl Image, Thanks to Jay-Z, Justin, Timbaland, Ne-Yo]</ref> In interviews, many have questioned the meaning and reasoning of the album title. The album title reflects the difference between the old and new Rihanna. "Bad means cool, bad means funky, bad means having an attitude, bad means being edgy. This album is definitely a great representation of who I am now, and where I am in my career," she says. Seven weeks after the album was released, it had gone gold in the United States and Platinum on the United World Albums Chart.

Also in 2007, Rihanna won World's Best-Selling Pop Female Artist & Entertainer of the Year at the 2007 World Music Awards. On November 18, 2007, she won Favorite Female Artist - Soul/R&B at the 2007 American Music Awards.

Starting September 12, 2007, Rihanna toured Canada and the United States in support of the album with several shows and then crossed to Europe. It is called the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour which will be released on DVD in early 2008 and feature the show performed at the Manchester Evening News Arena on 6th December 2007.

Rihanna received six Grammy Awards nominations: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (for Umbrella), Best R&B Song, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (for Hate That I Love You) as well as Best Dance Recording (for Don't Stop the Music).

Personal life

www.usmagazine.com/josh_and_rihanna</ref> When Josh was asked about this he said it was personal.<ref>http://www.tmz.com/2007/10/18/hartnett-on-rihanna-uh-um-uh/</ref> At the 2007 World Music Awards Rihanna stated the she isn't dating anyone in a TV interview. Furthermore, she talked about this situation in January 2008 edition of Allure Magazine.//www.usmagazine.com/josh_and_rihanna</ref> When Josh was asked about this he said it was personal.<ref>http://www.tmz.com/2007/10/18/hartnett-on-rihanna-uh-um-uh/</ref> At the 2007 World Music Awards Rihanna stated the she isn't dating anyone in a TV interview. Furthermore, she talked about this situation in January 2008 edition of Allure Magazine.

Discography

Main article: Rihanna discography

• 2005: Music of the Sun
• 2006: A Girl Like Me
• 2007: Good Girl Gone Bad

Number-one singles

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Tours

• 2006: The Pussycat Dolls With Rihanna
• 2007: Good Girl Gone Bad Tour

Awards

Main article: List of Rihanna awards

References

External links

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