Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988 in the city of Saint Michael, located on the island of Barbados. Her mother worked in the accounting department, and her father served the warehouse in a clothing factory.
Parents also raised two more younger brothers of Rihanna, so the whole family barely fit in a three-room apartment. The girl was very fond of watching the music channel, where stars such as Britney Spears and Mariah Carey performed.
Even then, Rihanna decided to become a famous singer and make good money so that her family would not need anything. At the age of eight, she not only went to school, but also helped her father sell clothes. For many years, the girl experienced severe headaches, and her mother had to take her to the doctors, who later found nothing wrong with her. Even at school, Rihanna created a musical group, inviting two friends to her.
When the future singer was 14 years old, her father was fired from his job for fraud, after which he began to drink and make scandals. The girl's mother did not endure her husband's antics for a long time and kicked him out of the house. During that period, Rihanna ceased to be interested in studying and even wanted to quit school.
The beginning of a singing career and the ascent to the musical Olympus
But everything changed when the 15-year-old girl met with a producer from America, Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados. After listening to her, he invited the aspiring singer to New York to record songs in the studio. But since Rihanna hadn't graduated from high school yet, this record took a whole year to make. In 2005, this work of an unknown singer became interested in Jay Z, who immediately signed a contract with the girl. She moves to the USA, where she starts working on her first album.
Pictured is Rihanna as a child
Rihanna recorded her first single in August, and in seven days it reached number two on the American music charts, also becoming popular all over the world. Immediately after him comes the debut album, which took tenth place in the main American hit parade. In the spring of next year, the second album of the Barbadian performer was ready, in addition, she recorded her first video for the song Unfaithful (Unfaithful). After that, the singer went on her first tour of the cities of Great Britain. In 2007, Rihanna began to collaborate with many famous artists, and in the same year her third album was ready, the compositions of which became more rhythmic and danceable. The song Umbrella (Umbrella) was so loved by music lovers all over the world that it allowed this single to become a hit of the year. The following year, the singer had to change this studio work, after which it was supplemented with new songs and released under a different name.
Rihanna's fourth album was completed in late autumn 2009. This work was no less successful, and her three most popular singles from the album were in the top ten of the music charts. The following year, the star worked with rapper Eminem as a guest vocalist, resulting in the song Love the Way You Lie (I love the way you lie), which became a worldwide hit. A year after the release of the fourth album, the Barbadian star publishes the fifth studio work, in which two singles were recorded with rapper Drake (Drake).
In October 2010, Rihanna launched a company called "Rihanna Entertainment" where she combined her music, fashion and other projects. In the fall of the following year, Coldplay wrote the song Princess of China (Princess of China) especially for the singer, which became very popular. At the same time, she was invited to participate in the American musical show The X Factor, where she evaluated the talents of the participants. The following November, her sixth studio effort was enthusiastically received by fans. A year later, Rihanna released her seventh album, which brought her a Grammy Award. In the fall of 2013, the star again sang a duet with Eminem, also recording a video clip for this song. Then, at the end of the summer of 2014, they gave several joint concerts in major cities of America, where they performed their favorite hit, as well as their own compositions.
At the beginning of last year, the pop singer teamed up with Shakira, creating a joint incendiary video, which was highly appreciated by music lovers around the world. The latest news about Rihanna is very positive: in November last year, the singer told fans that she was busy with the next album. And in January 2015, the star posted a new single on her Twitter page, where she sings with Kanye West, and Paul McCartney plays along with them on the guitar. Also in January 2015, it became known that Rihanna covered the legendary Madonna track, which she performed at an event seven years ago. Only now this cover version, recorded in the studio, has appeared on the web for all users.
The pop singer starred in four films, but only for her role in the film project, filmed in 2013, she was encouraged by the award. During her eight-year singing career, Rihanna has received numerous musical awards, in addition, she is an honorary cultural ambassador in her homeland and is involved in charity work, collecting considerable sums for children.
Rihanna's personal life
In 2009, the singer had a passionate affair with musician Chris Brown, but the lovers often quarreled. During one scandal, the musician severely beat the girl, as a result of which he was arrested. The court delivered a sentence, and Brown received five years probation, in addition, he was forbidden to see and communicate with his girlfriend. The reason for this scandalous story is not known, but many American journalists believed that at that time Rihanna was pregnant by her boyfriend, but she had an abortion so as not to harm her career. When Chris found out about this, he was terribly angry and beat his beloved.
Rihanna pictured with Chris Brown
Others are sure that the pop singer lost her child during the beatings. This happened on the eve of the Grammy Awards, so the star was unable to attend this event, and she was also forced to cancel several of her performances. In 2012, the Barbadian beauty spoke on The Oprah Winfrey Show about how she felt during that period. According to the crying Rihanna, it was on that night that she lost a close friend, and it was hard for her to cope. But, despite the pain and anger that overwhelmed the girl, she also felt sorry for her former friend, believing that he also needed help then. After breaking up with her ex-lover, Rihanna met with athletes Matt Kemp and JR Smith several times, but this relationship quickly ended. In the fall of 2012, the former lovers began to reappear in public, and already in January 2013 there was a rumor about the impending wedding of the performers. However, the marriage did not take place, and in the spring they fled again.
In the winter of 2014, rumors began to circulate in the Western press about the romantic relationship between Rihanna and rapper Drake (Drake), whom the pop diva had met before. It should be noted that back in the summer of 2012, Chris and Drake had a fight because of her, and the culprit of this brawl was delighted with this fact. In February 2014, the singer and rapper had a date in Paris, but there were rumors that she was again talking with her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who congratulated her on her birthday by phone. But, apparently, the star decided to no longer rave about old wounds, so she continued the affair with Drake, who loved her very much. More and more often, young people began to fall into the field of view of the paparazzi, appearing together in various public places.
In the photo Rihanna and rapper Drake (Drake)
Soon, Rihanna joined her boyfriend on a tour of Europe. But the performer, who has a difficult character, often made scandals for him, which once again led to separation and lack of personal life. The star celebrated her 26th birthday with friends, having arrived in snowy Aspen, where young people rode slides and played snowballs. She continued her birthday in a different, more festive setting. The singer posted pictures on Instagram, where she is depicted in a luxurious dress with a cocktail in her hand.
At the end of 2014, Western journalists began to assert that Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio (Leonardo DiCaprio) are not indifferent to each other. The reason for such speculation was the pictures of the paparazzi and the statements of eyewitnesses who saw the stars together at various parties. The artists themselves did not comment on these rumors in any way, but their close friends assure that the young people were just having fun, deciding to have a good time together.
Rihanna, who has not yet had a chance to give birth to a child, still managed to babysit a newborn baby for a while. In the summer of 2014, the star posted a picture on her Twitter that excited her fans. On it, the singer was captured with a small child in her arms. As it turned out, her cousin gave birth to a girl, and now the 26-year-old singer is happily taking care of her.
Two years ago, Rihanna bought a mansion in Los Angeles, in which she dreamed of living with her ex-lover Chris, but this did not happen, and now the star has decided to sell it. Recently, a celebrity bought a luxurious house on the Caribbean coast, deciding to move closer to his family. This mansion has a large number of rooms, a gym, a library, and a swimming pool. Now Rihanna will be able to spend more time with her mother and siblings.
Relationships and friendships with colleagues
Rihanna is friends with many of her co-stars, but she is especially close with Katy Perry, with whom the Barbadian beauty began to communicate closely in 2009 after a scandalous breakup with Chris Brown. In 2012, the girlfriends went on vacation together to gain strength after an intense tour, and also support each other in unsuccessful romances. But, when Rihanna forgave her former lover-fighter and began dating him again, close friends quarreled. They stopped talking and even saying hello to each other. But everything changed when both girls broke up with their boyfriends. They mended their relationship and went on a trip to Africa, intending to see a safari and have a good time in nature.
Barbadian singer Rihanna, or scandalous girl, as she is also called, is not very happy in her personal life, although it would seem that she has everything to become an enviable bride: bright appearance, success, money. Nevertheless, she has not yet managed not only to get married, but also to enter into a serious relationship without fights and scandals.
Negus Sealey. First love
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With Negus Seely, who is called the "god of love" in Barbados, Rihanna met shortly before her move to the United States. At that time, the green-eyed beauty Robin Rihanna Fenty was only fifteen years old, but the modesty and, at the same time, sex appeal that emanated from her conquered the dark-skinned handsome man, from whom all the women of Barbados were crazy, regardless of age, social status and marital status. Rihanna could not resist - the experienced Negus knew how to care and knew perfectly well what to do and say to make a woman lose her head.
Their romance lasted several months, during which they practically did not part: during the day they swam, sunbathed and water skied, and in the evening they went to a nightclub, where they had fun until the morning. Rihanna thrived in the arms of the Negus, but as soon as she signed her first professional contract, she told Seely that she needed to leave, so they parted. To the credit of Negus, it must be said that he did not hold back his beloved, because he understood that she was really talented and he had no right to stand in her way leading to success.
Shia LaBeouf. First love in America
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Actor Shia LaBeouf became Rihanna's first American love. They did not meet for long, but the singer still remembers every date - LaBeouf knew how, as they say, to impress. The media wrote all the time about his antics: he got into the police, making a brawl in a pharmacy, almost crashed in a car accident, after which he refused to undergo an examination for alcohol and drugs and was deprived of his rights, and once appeared at the premiere of a film in which he played one of the roles, with... a paper bag on his head. Fortunately for Rihanna, they broke up very quickly, otherwise it is not known how this relationship would have ended for her.
Chris Brown. A bright and tragic novel
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However, all the troubles that Rihanna LaBeouf did not have time to deliver were more than compensated by the singer and actor Chris Brown. Their romance is the brightest and most tragic - at least to date - page of Rihanna's life: ironically, he first saved her life, and then almost sent her to the next world.
They met at a nightclub, the singer choked on a salted nut and was already beginning to choke, but Brown managed to take her out into the street in his arms and, hitting her hard on the back, knocked out the ill-fated nut. Since then, Rihanna and Chris have hardly parted, almost daily giving the press a pretext for articles about their rampant behavior: they spent their nights in nightclubs, washing down drugs with generous portions of alcohol, drove a car during the day or had sex where they felt like it, including number and in public places. The idyll - if, of course, their relationship can be called that - ended on the night of February 2009, when an ambulance took the singer to the Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai hospital. Rihanna was covered in blood, with black eyes, split lips and a broken nose. There were cuts, abrasions and teeth marks on the hands, and strangulation stripes on the neck. Subsequently, it turned out that all these injuries were inflicted on the singer by her lover Chris Brown. In fairness, it must be said that Rihanna started the fight, setting up a wild scene of jealousy in Brown's car, but this does not justify him - he brutally beat his beloved, and then also fled the scene of the crime. True, he later returned and surrendered to the police, fully admitting his guilt. He was arrested, tried and sentenced to five years of probation and one hundred and eighty hours of hard labor - Brown worked them out at a car wash.
The court also forbade Chris to approach Rihanna closer than fifty meters, but he very quickly violated this ban - and at the request of the singer herself, who stubbornly repeated in all interviews that she could neither stop loving him nor forget him. Soon they began to meet again, for which the press gave Rihanna a real persecution, which she courageously endured. Then they parted again - Brown left her for the Vietnamese model Carucci Tren, but he quickly changed his mind and again began dating his adored Riri. Today they live apart again, but this does not mean that tomorrow the lovers, who are closely together, and bored apart, will not come together again.
Drake. Trying to forget Chris Brown
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In the arms of rapper Drake, Rihanna tried to forget Chris Brown. They met in 2009, but for a long time they were just friends. The status quo was broken by their joint video Work - its eroticism left no doubt that the young people were in a close relationship. True, after a short time, Rihanna ran away from Drake to Chris Brown, relations with whom again went in a vicious circle - having become jealous of him for Tren, Rihanna left her lover with a scandal.
She did not return to Drake - the journalists decided that she had completely forgotten him, but on August 28, 2016, at the MTV VMA awards ceremony, the story developed: while presenting Rihanna with the Distinguished Service Award, Drake confessed his love to her and kissed her. Moreover, after that, no one saw either the singer or the rapper until they appeared at three in the morning - together! - at the Up&Down nightclub. The couple held hands, and when Rihanna moved away from Drake for at least a few minutes, he did not lose sight of her. "Is the famous rapper finally waiting for reciprocity from his Barbadian muse?" - the gossip newspapers wrote the next day, and perhaps they were close to the truth.
Rumors about a passionate romance that allegedly takes place between Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio began to appear back in 2015: either the two stars were allegedly noticed kissing at one of the parties, then they appeared together in a restaurant, or they could not enjoy a conversation with each other at the Coachella festival. Moreover, when the media suspected that Rihanna was pregnant in the spring of 2016, it was DiCaprio who was called the possible father of her unborn child. However, neither the first nor the second assumption has been confirmed yet, but the third one has appeared - the most likely one - according to which Rihanna's relationship with the star of the films "Titanic" and "The Revenant" is just a PR, for which, as you know, all means are good.
FULL NAME: Robin Rihanna Fenty
DATE OF BIRTH: 2/20/1988 (Pisces)
PLACE OF BIRTH: O. Barbados
EYE COLOR: Green
HAIR COLOR: brunet
FAMILY STATUS: Single
FAMILY: Parents: Ronald Fenty, Monica Braithwaite.
HEIGHT: 173 cm
OCCUPATION: singer, actress
Biography:
An American R&B and pop singer and actress of Barbadian descent, she is the eldest child of a retired Afro-Guyanese accountant, warehouse inspector at a clothing factory. Her mother is a native of Guyana, and her father has Barbadian and Irish roots. Rihanna has two younger brothers: Rorry and Rajad Fenty, however, there are two sisters and another brother on her father's side, who were born to different mothers before the marriage of the singer's parents . She grew up influenced by Reggae music and began singing at the age of seven. Her childhood was deeply affected by her father's addiction to crack cocaine, alcohol and marijuana; Rihanna's parents divorced when she was 14, although her father remained a part of her life. From the age of eight until the divorce of her parents, Rihanna suffered from excruciating headaches; the doctors thought the girl had a brain tumor and subjected her to several CT scans. The singer grew up in a modest three-room house in Bridgetown, and she had to sell clothes in a stall with her father. Rihanna attended elementary school at Charles F. Broome Memorial School in Barbados and later at Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with her classmates. She was also a cadet in a military training program taught by the Barbados military; Shontel was Rihanna's drill sergeant. Initially, the singer wanted to finish high school, but then decided to leave it because she was busy with her musical career.
When Rihanna was 15 years old, American producer Evan Rogers noticed her talent. The man has worked with world stars such as N SYNC, Jessica Simpson, Rod Stewart and Christina Aguilera. Evan met the girl through mutual friends. Rogers immediately invited Robin to America and helped the girl record demo materials. He himself sent them out to various record companies. A copy fell into the hands of the famous rapper Jay-Z. After listening to the president of the Def Jam label, he immediately took up the young talent from Barbados. In 2005, 17-year-old Rihanna announced herself to the world with the composition "Pon de Replay". Exotic Caribbean rhythms and trendy modern pop sound immediately captivated the audience, the song immediately became popular and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 rating. Rihanna's debut album "Music of the Sun" was released in late summer 2005. The record hit the top ten in many countries, and sold 500,000 copies in the United States. After that, Robin went on her first world tour, although she acted as the opening act for Gwen Stefani. By the way, Rihanna has become not just a performer of compositions, but also a composer. The singer wrote many tracks from the album herself. Eight months after the debut, the second studio disc called "A Girl Like Me" appeared on the shelves. And again the disc was waiting for success, it immediately hit the Top 5 in Britain and America. And the promotional single called "SOS" became the best in her career.
In 2006, Rihanna tried herself as an actress. The girl took part in the filming of a youth comedy called Bring It On. There she plays the role of herself - that is, a star at the peak of fame. In addition, the singer starred in two television series: "Las Vegas" and "Setup".
Since January 2006, the singer began to receive recognition. Among Rihanna's awards: the title of the best performer according to the MTV Europe Music Awards, the singer of the year and the popular pop artist according to the Billboard Music Awards. She has also received MOBO, BMI, Teen Choice and NRJ awards, in addition to dozens of awards in her homeland. All her discs became the best albums of the year, and the singer herself was recognized as the best at the Barbados Music Awards. In 2008, Robin received her first Grammy.
In 2009, 19-year-old hip-hop artist Chris Brown, who was then dating 21-year-old Rihanna, beat his girlfriend and fled the scene, but Brown later voluntarily turned up at the police station. At the hearing, at first, Brown denied his guilt, but the court sentenced the singer to community service and five years of probation. Some time after the verdict and the execution of the punishment, Brown repented, which he openly spoke about more than once and publicly asked for forgiveness from his ex-girlfriend.
After her breakup with Brown, Rihanna dated Los Angeles Dodger player Matt Kemp and basketball player JR Smith. In 2011, information appeared in the press that the singer Usher became Rihanna's new boyfriend, but in October 2012, Chris Brown and Rihanna resumed their relationship. In the spring of 2013, Chris Brown and Rihanna broke up again. For several years, there were rumors about the singer's romance with rapper Drake. Now she is credited with an affair with a billionaire from Saudi Arabia Hassan Jameel.
Barbadian singer Rihanna, or scandalous girl, as she is also called, is not very happy in her personal life, although it would seem that she has everything to become an enviable bride: bright appearance, success, money. Nevertheless, she has not yet managed not only to get married, but also to enter into a serious relationship without fights and scandals.
Negus Sealey. First love
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With Negus Sealy, who is called the "god of love" in Barbados, she met shortly before moving to the United States. At that time, the green-eyed beauty Robin Rihanna Fenty was only fifteen years old, but the modesty and, at the same time, sex appeal that emanated from her conquered the dark-skinned handsome man, from whom all the women of Barbados were crazy, regardless of age, social status and marital status. Rihanna could not resist - the experienced Negus knew how to care and knew perfectly well what to do and say to make a woman lose her head.
Their romance lasted several months, during which they practically did not part: during the day they swam, sunbathed and water skied, and in the evening they went to a nightclub, where they had fun until the morning. Rihanna thrived in the arms of the Negus, but as soon as she signed her first professional contract, she told Seely that she needed to leave, so they parted. To the credit of Negus, it must be said that he did not hold back his beloved, because he understood that she was really talented and he had no right to stand in her way leading to success.
Shia LaBeouf. First love in America
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Became Rihanna's first American love. They did not meet for long, but the singer still remembers every date - LaBeouf knew how, as they say, to impress. The media wrote all the time about his antics: he got into the police, making a brawl in a pharmacy, almost crashed in a car accident, after which he refused to undergo an examination for alcohol and drugs and was deprived of his rights, and once appeared at the premiere of a film in which he played one of the roles, with... a paper bag on his head. Fortunately for Rihanna, they broke up very quickly, otherwise it is not known how this relationship would have ended for her.
Chris Brown. A bright and tragic novel
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However, all the troubles that Rihanna LaBeouf did not have time to deliver were more than compensated by the singer and actor. Their romance is the brightest and most tragic - at least to date - page of Rihanna's life: ironically, he first saved her life, and then almost sent her to the next world.
They met at a nightclub, the singer choked on a salted nut and was already beginning to choke, but Brown managed to take her out into the street in his arms and, hitting her hard on the back, knocked out the ill-fated nut. Since then, Rihanna and Chris have hardly parted, almost daily giving the press a pretext for articles about their rampant behavior: they spent their nights in nightclubs, washing down drugs with generous portions of alcohol, drove a car during the day or had sex where they felt like it, including number and in public places. The idyll - if, of course, their relationship can be called that - ended on the night of February 2009, when an ambulance took the singer to the Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai hospital. Rihanna was covered in blood, with black eyes, split lips and a broken nose. There were cuts, abrasions and teeth marks on the hands, and strangulation stripes on the neck. Subsequently, it turned out that all these injuries were inflicted on the singer by her lover Chris Brown. In fairness, it must be said that Rihanna started the fight, setting up a wild scene of jealousy in Brown's car, but this does not justify him - he brutally beat his beloved, and then also fled the scene of the crime. True, he later returned and surrendered to the police, fully admitting his guilt. He was arrested, tried and sentenced to five years of probation and one hundred and eighty hours of hard labor - Brown worked them out at a car wash.
The court also forbade Chris to approach Rihanna closer than fifty meters, but he very quickly violated this ban - and at the request of the singer herself, who stubbornly repeated in all interviews that she could neither stop loving him nor forget him. Soon they began to meet again, for which the press gave Rihanna a real persecution, which she courageously endured. Then they parted again - Brown left her for the Vietnamese model Carucci Tren, but he quickly changed his mind and again began dating his adored Riri. Today they live apart again, but this does not mean that tomorrow the lovers, who are closely together, and bored apart, will not come together again.
Drake. Trying to forget Chris Brown
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Drake
In the arms of rapper Drake, Rihanna tried to forget Chris Brown. They met in 2009, but for a long time they were just friends. The status quo was broken by their joint video Work - its eroticism left no doubt that the young people were in a close relationship. True, after a short time, Rihanna ran away from Drake to Chris Brown, relations with whom again went in a vicious circle - having become jealous of him for Tren, Rihanna left her lover with a scandal.
She did not return to Drake - the journalists decided that she had completely forgotten him, but on August 28, 2016, at the MTV VMA awards ceremony, the story developed: while presenting Rihanna with the Distinguished Service Award, Drake confessed his love to her and kissed her. Moreover, after that, no one saw either the singer or the rapper until they appeared at three in the morning - together! - at the Up&Down nightclub. The couple held hands, and when Rihanna moved away from Drake for at least a few minutes, he did not lose sight of her. "Is the famous rapper finally waiting for reciprocity from his Barbadian muse?" - the gossip newspapers wrote the next day, and perhaps they were close to the truth.
Rumors about a passionate romance that allegedly takes place between Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio began to appear back in 2015: either the two stars were allegedly noticed kissing at one of the parties, then they appeared together in a restaurant, or they could not enjoy a conversation with each other at the Coachella festival. Moreover, when the media suspected that Rihanna was pregnant in the spring of 2016, it was DiCaprio who was called the possible father of her unborn child. However, neither the first nor the second assumption has been confirmed yet, but the third one has appeared - the most likely one - according to which Rihanna's relationship with the star of the films "Titanic" and "The Revenant" is just a PR, for which, as you know, all means are good.
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Forgive your young boyfriend for the beatings and break up with him again, become the owner of more than a dozen awards (including 8 Grammys, and at the 2015 ceremony, she and Eminem shared the award for the best rap duo), sell more than 60 million singles and more than 20 million copies of albums, earn the Golden Raspberry for the role of a "brutal" naval officer. And all this is a biography of Rihanna, who has done so much, and all up to thirty years!
Biography of Rihanna
Musical Cinderella: Poverty Approached
After starting a career in show business, Barbadian native Robyn Rihanna Fenty chose her middle name as her screen name, so we know her simply as "Rihanna." Accountant Monica and warehouse worker Ronald became the parents of three children: the eldest Rihanna and two boys, Rorry and Rajad. The girl was born on February 20, 1988.
Fenty lived in the capital of Barbados, Bridgetown. Her father was an alcoholic, and he did not disdain drugs, so Monica eventually left him (her daughter was then 14 years old). Rihanna from the cradle loved to listen to music and dreamed of a career as a singer.
Although there was no time for dreams yet: the family was on the verge of poverty, the schoolgirl often took a place next to her father in a trading tent to feed herself and her brothers. So the biography of teenage Rihanna is suitable for a melodrama scenario: everything was too hopeless. But she was not going to retreat and already at the age of 15 she began to take serious steps for this.
Invited to the "ball"
Acquaintance with an American producer opened the doors to the big world for the girl. Evan Rogers was spending the weekend in Barbados, and then Rihanna and her two girlfriends "caught up" with him. They came straight to the hotel room and stunned the man. Rather, he was delighted with one vocalist from the trinity - Rihanna, whose biography has since become the biography of a star.
Thanks to Rogers, a debutante demo was born. It included the song "Pon de Replay". Hearing the composition, Jay-Z (he was sent a recording among other show business tycoons) was impressed. Already at the beginning of 2005, the singer from Barbados settled in the States and signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings. This was the beginning of worldwide fame!
"The Crystal Slipper": to the top of the charts
The debut album, which the girl recorded for several months, sold two million copies, and the main composition took first place in a dozen countries. Rihanna, emboldened by the success, immediately returned to the studio. She was the opening act for Gwen Stefani and worked on the second disc. This was followed by the first concert tour of the singer.
If earlier Rihanna's compositions sounded more like reggae, then dance compositions prevail in the third album (this was done by new producers - Sean Garrett and Timbaland). Second place in the US charts and leadership in the charts in Canada, Ireland, UK, Russia and Japan - it was again a victory. At the same time, the vocalist received 6 Grammy nominations (winning one award).
Already a Princess: Rihanna the Businesswoman
The year 2010 marks the creation of Rihanna's company, within which she was going to combine all areas of her work (except for music, this is fashion design, filming, book publishing, perfume creation). And the fifth album of the star in the first seven days of sales sold out with lightning speed (more than 207 thousand copies).
Released in September 2012, the single “Diamonds” rattled for many months from all kinds of sound-reproducing devices in the world - it topped more than a dozen charts, including the Billboard Hot 100. The composition was included in the seventh album of the pop diva.
Go to film actress? Easily!
In the same 2012, the film "Battleship" was released. Rihanna had one of the main roles in the blockbuster. Alas, the film turned out to be a weak (although not without loud patriotic pathos) story about how brave sailors (led by Admiral Liam Neeson and the courageous hero Taylor Kitsch) repelled the attacks of aliens who were going to occupy our planet. The film debut was a failure: the newly-minted actress was awarded the Golden Raspberry.
Rihanna was able to rehabilitate herself by starring as ... Rihanna in the funny "funny" film "Hollywood Apocalypse". The MTV channel awarded the beauty with its award (for the best cameo).
And in 2017, the singer appeared in the guest role of the fifth (final) season of the horror series Bates Motel. Rihanna played the role of the cult heroine Hitchcock, Marion, who, as you remember, was brutally stabbed to death in the shower in the legendary film of the master. Interestingly, the writers of the show did with Marion-Rihanna in their own way. How? See for yourself, we won't spoil your fun!
Rihanna's personal life
The victim of the violent "prince"
The whole world was shocked when Rihanna's personal life took a dramatic turn: she was severely beaten by her boyfriend.
The 21-year-old girl dated musician Chris Brown. Despite his youth (he was then only 19), the guy turned out to be the owner of a violent temper. Having mutilated his girlfriend, he ran away from her. But then the brawler surrendered to the police and was sentenced to 5 years in prison (though conditionally). It was in 2009.
Do the lessons teach you nothing?
Rihanna moved away from what had happened, made herself several tattoos (now tattooed on the girl's body - do not count!). Apparently, in order to remind herself of the beatings, she decorated her collarbone with the inscription: “Not a mistake, but a lesson,” and elegant pistols appeared on the singer’s ribs.
Rihanna was credited with romances with the athlete Kemp and another big man, basketball player Smith, but she surprised everyone by returning to the bully Chris in the fall of 2012. It cannot be called a long romance - the couple was together for only a few months.
After that, Rihanna's personal life was not marked by anything extraordinary. She often appeared “in public” with her friend Melissa Ford, but the paparazzi did not notice the new man next to her for a long time. Then it became known about Rihanna's romance with Canadian rapper Drake. They recorded compositions together and starred in a music video. However, they say that this connection has exhausted itself. Be that as it may, Rihanna is not yet married and not even engaged.
