Rihanna is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter who has sold over 250 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling musicians of all time. She is best known for songs like “Pon de Replay”, “Umbrella”, “Disturbia”, “We Found Love” and “The Monster” (featuring Eminem).
The nine-time Grammy Awards and 12-time American Music Awards winner, who is also an actress and philanthropist, is known for her many endeavors that include fragrances, clothing, and makeup. In 2014, she was appointed creative director of women’s sportswear company Puma. Following the success of their collaboration, Rihanna was recognized as a fashion icon by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in the 2014 Fashion Icon Award.
Biography (age, origin)
Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty to three children of Monica (Braithwaite) and Ronald Fenty on February 20, 1988 in Saint Michael, Barbados. Her mother was an accountant while her father worked as a warehouse manager. She is of Afro-Guyanese, Afro-Barbadian and Irish descent.
During my childhood in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna listened to a lot of reggae music while selling clothes on the street with her father. She later became interested in singing while attending Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School before transferring to Combermere High School, from which she dropped out to pursue a career in music, divorcing her parents. The talented singer had formed a small girl group with three of her classmates who managed to get an audition with American record producer Evan Rogers despite not recording any music.
Rogers was impressed by Rihanna’s voice and invited her to the US to record a demo tape when they were shopping for a record deal, but in the meantime he signed her to his production company, Syndicated Rhythm Productions. Rihanna recorded a demo tape of her future hit “Pon de Replay” for Jay Z to hear and invited her to an audition. The young Barbadian beauty is said to have made a huge impression on the rapper, who was CEO of Def Jam Recordings at the time, and he immediately signed her to a six-album record deal.
“Pon de Replay” became Rihanna’s first single from her debut album and it became a club banger, peaking at number one on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs and peaking at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart. The album itself, Music of the Sun, was released in August 2005 and has sold over two million copies worldwide.Rihanna has released seven more bodies of work since her first album; “A Girl Like Me” (2006), “Good Girl Goes Bad” (2007), “Rated R” (2009), “Loud” (2010), “Talk That Talk” (2011), “Unapologetic” (2012) and ‘Anti’ (2016) to achieve legendary status in the music industry.
Rihanna’s boyfriend
Rihanna has been in some high-profile relationships since she began dating Chris Brown and was physically assaulted by the singer on February 8, 2009. Drake and Travis Scott, F1 driver Lewis Hamilton and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema. She is currently in a relationship with Saudi businessman Hassan Jameel.
Jameel and Rihanna reportedly began seeing each other by June of the following year, and the couple was pictured as being intimate on a romantic getaway to Ibiza, Spain. They were then pictured drinking coffee together on the street to cement their status as a couple to the public.
Hassan Jameel is the Deputy President and Vice President-Chairman of Abdul Latif Jameel, a Saudi Arabia-based family business engaged in the sale, manufacture, assembly and design of motor vehicles. It is the only Toyota distributor in Saudi Arabia and has deep-rooted relationships with the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region. The graduate of Sophia University of Tokyo, Japan, was previously married to art specialist Lina Lazaar. The marriage lasted five years before both parties went their separate ways in 2017.
Height, body stats, weight and other facts
Birth name: Robyn Rihanna Fenty
Place of Birth: St. Michael, Barbados
Date of Birth: February 20, 1988
Occupation: singer, songwriter, actress, fashion designer
Height: 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm)
Weight: 61kg
Body Stats: 91.5-66-91.5 cm (36-26-36 inches)
Zodiac sign: Pisces
