Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Saint Michael, Barbados on February 20, 1988.
Her mother is Monica (Braithwaite) who is of Guyanese ancestry and her father Ronald Fenty who is of Irish and West Indian ancestry.
Monica is a retired accountant, who now owns a clothing boutique back home in Barbados. Ronald Fenty, is a warehouse supervisor.
She has two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.
Her mother is Monica (Braithwaite) who is of Guyanese ancestry and her father Ronald Fenty who is of Irish and West Indian ancestry.
Monica is a retired accountant, who now owns a clothing boutique back home in Barbados. Ronald Fenty, is a warehouse supervisor.
She has two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.
When the West Indies top cricketer Kraigg Brathwaite was bullied by his Combermere School (Barbados) bus mates. Robyn Fenty, a.k.a. Rihanna, who was four years his senior, protected him. She beat up the bullies and took Kraigg on her lap.
Rihanna was an army cadet that trained with the Barbadian military.
She was discovered by music producer Evan Rogers while he was vacationing in Barbados, with his wife. Rihanna was performing with a girl group. “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist,” he said
Rihanna's debut single "Pon de Replay" was released in May 2005. It peaked in the top five in fifteen countries, including at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart.
Rihanna was dating fellow singer Chris Brown when he assaulted her the night before the Grammy Awards in 2009. On March 5, 2009, Brown was charged with assault and for making criminal threats. He was ordered to stay fifty yards (46 meters) away from Rihanna, unless at public events, which then would be reduced to ten yards (nine meters).
Rihanna holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the UK singles charts. The Barbados-born pop star had at least one song in the Top 75 for 196 weeks starting with "Run This Town" in 2009 and ending with "Diamonds" in 2013. She snatched the record from The Shadows, Cliff Richard’s backing band, who notched up 186 weeks from 1959 to 1962.
Rihanna passed Justin Bieber on June 18, 2013 as the most-viewed artist on YouTube. At that date the 77 videos on Rihanna's official VEVO channel had clocked a combined 3.784 billion views in total, surpassing the total view counts of the 79 videos on Bieber's official VEVO channel by roughly two million views.
In 2015, a movie called Home was released. The character that Rihanna voiced, Gratuity 'Tip' Tucci, who was the first human black protagonist in a feature film by DreamWorks Animation.
Rihanna created her cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty for the inclusion of all regardless of skin tone. It was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017.
Rihanna was an army cadet that trained with the Barbadian military.
She was discovered by music producer Evan Rogers while he was vacationing in Barbados, with his wife. Rihanna was performing with a girl group. “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist,” he said
Rihanna's debut single "Pon de Replay" was released in May 2005. It peaked in the top five in fifteen countries, including at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart.
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Rihanna was dating fellow singer Chris Brown when he assaulted her the night before the Grammy Awards in 2009. On March 5, 2009, Brown was charged with assault and for making criminal threats. He was ordered to stay fifty yards (46 meters) away from Rihanna, unless at public events, which then would be reduced to ten yards (nine meters).
Rihanna holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the UK singles charts. The Barbados-born pop star had at least one song in the Top 75 for 196 weeks starting with "Run This Town" in 2009 and ending with "Diamonds" in 2013. She snatched the record from The Shadows, Cliff Richard’s backing band, who notched up 186 weeks from 1959 to 1962.
Rihanna passed Justin Bieber on June 18, 2013 as the most-viewed artist on YouTube. At that date the 77 videos on Rihanna's official VEVO channel had clocked a combined 3.784 billion views in total, surpassing the total view counts of the 79 videos on Bieber's official VEVO channel by roughly two million views.
In 2015, a movie called Home was released. The character that Rihanna voiced, Gratuity 'Tip' Tucci, who was the first human black protagonist in a feature film by DreamWorks Animation.
Rihanna created her cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty for the inclusion of all regardless of skin tone. It was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017.
In the spring of 2021, Rihanna began dating American rapper ASAP Rocky. On May 13, 2022, she gave birth to their son, whom they named RZA Athelston Mayers. RZA is named after the famed rapper and producer of the Wu-Tang Clan, while Athelston comes from his father, whose birth name is Rakim Athelston Mayers.
Rihanna's fanbase are known as her Navy, after the lyric "We're an army, better yet a navy" from her song "G4L."
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Rihanna's fanbase are known as her Navy, after the lyric "We're an army, better yet a navy" from her song "G4L."
Source Artistfacts
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