Rihanna has also ventured into acting, appearing in major roles in Battleship (2012), Home (2015), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). She is the founder of the nonprofit organisation Clara Lionel Foundation, cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH she is the first black woman to head a luxury brand for LVMH. As of 2021, she is the wealthiest female musician, with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion.Aside from music, Rihanna is known for her involvement in humanitarian causes, entrepreneurial ventures, and the fashion industry. Forbes ranked her among the top ten highest-paid celebrities in 20. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 20. Her accolades include nine Grammy Awards, 13 American Music Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and six Guinness World Records. She has earned 14 number-ones and 31 top-ten singles in the US and 30 top-ten entries in the UK. With sales of over 250 million records worldwide, Rihanna is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. During her musical career, Rihanna has collaborations with artists such as rappers Drake, Eminem, Jay-Z, and Kanye West and singers Adam Levine, Paul McCartney, Ne-Yo, and Shakira. It became her second US number-one album and featured the chart-topping single "Work". Her eighth album, Anti (2016), showcased a new creative control following her departure from Def Jam. The albums spawned a string of chart-topping singles, including "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?", "S&M", "We Found Love", "Where Have You Been" and "Diamonds". She continued to mix pop, dance, and R&B genres on her next studio albums, Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011), and Unapologetic (2012), which became her first Billboard 200 number one. The chart-topping single "Umbrella" earned Rihanna her first Grammy Award and catapulted her to global stardom. Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), incorporated elements of dance-pop and established her status as a sex symbol in the music industry. After signing with Def Jam in 2005, she soon gained recognition with the release of her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006), both of which were influenced by Caribbean music and peaked within the top ten of the US Billboard 200 chart. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna was discovered by American record producer Evan Rogers who invited her to the United States to record demo tapes. Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) ( ree-AN-ə) is a Barbadian singer, actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman. I do not add people I dont know on my personal facebook page, so please follow these links which are my "fan" pages: Please subscribe if you like what you see/hear and I am forever gratefull to everyone who buys songs so I can keep doing this as a living. On my youtube channel there is lots of videos with covers, gear reviews, studio updates and other shenaningans.įor my covers I play everything myself as well as record, mix, master, shoot and edit the music & videos. Hi there, my name is Leo and I run a studio on the westside of Norway where I record and produce bands, do video work and play live shows. The next year, she issued her fifth album, Loud.Become a Patreon and get all the songs and support me doing more music covers: She continued in this direction with 2007's Good Girl Gone Bad, which featured the infectious singles "Umbrella" and "Shut Up and Drive." In early 2009, she was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown en route to a pre-Grammys party that November, she released Rated R, a highly personal album with an unmistakable darkness.
Though Rihanna had basically moved away from dancehall, she was moving toward a new aesthetic that married R&B, synth-pop and hip-hop.
The single, which sampled Soft Cell's "Tainted Love," was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially popular songs of that year. But her big break came in 2006 with the release of the single "S.O.S." and the subsequent album A Girl Like Me.
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The singer's first single, "Pon de Replay," was released in June 2005, with the full album Music of the Sun dropping a month later. She was discovered by producer Evan Rogers during his island visit in 2003, and went on to impress Def Jam CEO Jay-Z so much that he grabbed her for a multi-album contract. Talent and a dose of good luck got Barbados-born Rihanna signed to Def Jam when she was 16 years old.