Rihanna - biography, information, personal life. Songs, translations and short biography of Rihanna
Rihanna is a singer who is known all over the world. Her singles do not leave the first lines of the charts for a long time, her songs excite, she is applauded from the biggest concert venues peace.
Rihanna is a native Caribbean island Barbados. She was born on February 20, 1988 in the family of an accountant and warehouse inspector. Her full name Robyn Rihanna Fenty, and she is the oldest child in the family. Although the father has two more daughters and a son from his first wife. In addition to Rihanna, the parents also had two sons.
Everything would be fine if it weren’t for my father’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. She loved her father very much, but his addictions deeply hurt all members of the family, especially the children. Rihanna suffered so much that from the age of 8 until her parents’ divorce, she suffered from frequent headaches; she was even tested for a possible brain tumor, which, fortunately, was not confirmed. When the parents divorced, all the misfortunes stopped. At this time the girl was already 14 years old.
To somehow take her mind off her problems, Rihanna sang. She started singing at age 7 big influence she was influenced by Reggae music. She always sang with great pleasure for the family or just for fun.
There was no extra money in the family, and the girl had to work part-time with her father in his trading tent, selling clothes. In all other respects, she lived the life of an ordinary islander. She attended first primary school, then secondary school. Once, at a school talent competition, she performed a song from Mariah Carey’s repertoire and won. And thanks to her pretty appearance, she was able to win the school beauty contest.
Together with her two classmates, she founded a music group. The girls were 15 years old at the time. This was the start of her career.
Famous American producer Evan Rogers and his wife came to Barbados for a weekend vacation. Rihanna met his wife, and thanks to the invitation she received, she and the girls from the group came to the hotel to audition. Rogers was so amazed that he didn't even notice the other two contestants. He felt that a future star had entered the room. Evan invited her to make some recordings in a New York studio. He also met the girl's mother. Over the next year, she and her mother flew several times to the city where Evan lived in Connecticut. They showed a demo version of the song to the president and owner of Def Jam Recording. He also did not doubt for a minute that this was a real star.
It was 2005. In American musical Olympus there was stagnation, and a performer like Rihanna with hot southern blood was needed. Moreover, summer was coming and new ones were needed summer hits. Thanks to the audition, the young 17-year-old singer signed a contract with a record company for several million. She literally burst into the world of American pop music. Everything that happened to her at that time seemed like just a dream that she couldn’t even dream about simple girl from the island of Barbados.
That same year she toured with Gwen Stefani, performing as her opening act. This tour changed her outlook on life in many ways. In general, 2005 was both a breakthrough year and a year of difficult trials for her. She started new life far from her homeland, where she had neither friends nor relatives. She realized that being a good performer is real work, which from the outside seems only glamorous. Rihanna has matured more this year than in her entire life.
She recorded hit after hit, and soon her first album was released, which sold over one million copies. Among her hits, I especially want to mention “S.O.S.”, “Unfaithful”, “Kisses Don’t Lie”.
In addition, she acts in films a little, trying to develop herself comprehensively.
Rihanna's personal life
In her personal life, the singer is not as happy as she could be.
For several years she dated a performer 2 years younger than her - Chris Brown. At times he raised his hand to her. In 2009, the case came to court, where he was sentenced to 5 years probation with the requirement not to approach the singer at a specified distance.
Rihanna and singer Usher
After breaking up with her first boyfriend, she had short affairs with two athletes, which ended in nothing, then there was a singer Asher. 3 years after the trial, Rihanna got back together with Chris, but this time the romance did not last more than six months.
Due to her busy schedule, the girl has practically no time for her personal life. And the president of the aforementioned record company, Jay-Z, vigilantly monitors the behavior of his ward, approving or disapproving of her connections. This is good, since the singer is not addicted to drugs and drinking, which often happens with quickly rising stars. Allegedly, he himself is looking for a suitable lover for her. Maybe we will soon learn about her new novel.
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Singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20, 1988 in the parish of Saint-Michel on the island of Barbados in the Caribbean archipelago. She was the eldest of three children of Monica Fenty, an accountant by profession, and Ronald Fenty, a warehouse manager. Rihanna's childhood was marred by her father's constant struggle with alcohol and drug addiction, as well as endless fights between her parents. Finally, when the girl was 14 years old, her mother and father divorced.
But since then, Rihanna's father finally managed to overcome his illnesses, and, today, the family is back together. “Now my father is the most best person on Earth,” shares Rihanna. “He never interferes with me in anything. He just lets me live my life. In fact, he was like that even when I was little. He let me learn from my own mistakes and never interfered. My daddy! He allowed me to do everything to figure it out on my own.”
As a child, Rihanna struggled with migraines for several years, hiding the disease from friends and classmates so that no one would think that something was wrong with her. “I never talked about how bad I was,” she recalls. “I have always been silent about this. I went to school... and no one would ever even think that there was something wrong with me.”
A little later, Rihanna, escaping from domestic problems, grabs onto singing like a straw. Together with two classmates, she founded her own musical group of teenage girls. At the age of 15, Rihanna successfully auditions for music producer Evan Rogers, who came to the island with his wife, a native of Barbados. Roger was amazed by the girl's early revealed beauty and phenomenal talent, to the great disappointment of her girlfriends. “The minute Rihanna entered the room, the other two ceased to exist for me,” he admits in an interview.
Less than a year later, when she was already 16, Rihanna left Barbados and moved with Roberts and his wife to Connecticut, where she began working on the rough version of her first album. “I left Barbados and never looked back,” the singer says about this. “I wanted to do what I simply needed to do, even if I had to move to America to do it.”
"Def Jam Records"
In January 2005, Rogers arranged an audition for Rihanna at the Def Jam Records recording studio, where the legendary rapper Jay-Z had been appointed as the new director. “I sat in the waiting room and was shaking all over,” Rihanna will later say. But as soon as she opened her mouth and began to sing, all her fear disappeared. “I remember singing and looking straight into the eyes of those who were in the studio, and at that moment nothing bothered me,” says the singer. “But when I stopped singing, it suddenly dawned on me: “Oh, God!
And in front of me is Jay-Z himself!”
Rihanna's stunning voice and personal charm enraptures the hip-hop icon, as did Rogers two years before him, and he immediately signs a contract with the girl. Just eight months later, Rihanna released her first single, the heavily reggae-influenced club number “Pon de Replay,” which skyrocketed to number two on the US No. 1 Singles List and established the singer as pop's brightest rising star. Her first album, “Music of the Sun,” which includes the single “If It’s Love That You Need,” released the same month, takes tenth place on the chart. IN next year Rihanna releases her second album, “A Girl Like Me,” which gave the world two new hits, “Unfaithful” and “SOS.” business card singers.
"Good girl turned bad"
In 2007, Rihanna transformed from a pretty young princess of pop music into a fully-fledged star, releasing her third album, “Good Girl Gone Bad,” whose popularity was enhanced by the undisputed hit, the album’s title single, “Umbrella,” performed in a duet with Jay-Z. “It reflects how much Rihanna has grown as a singer,” Jay-Z commented on the song. “If you listen to the words, you will understand the depth of the song and how much the girl managed to achieve.”
“Umbrella” tops the American charts and brings Rihanna her first Grammy in the category “Best Rap Collaboration.” The album, which also included the singles “Don’t Stop the Music” and “Shut up and Drive,” took second position on the charts. The new album “Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes” will feature two new hits – “Disturbia” and “Take a Bow”.
Continuing to persistently conquer the pop scene, in 2009 Rihanna released a new successful album “Rated R”, where the singles “Hard” and “Rude Boy” were heard for the first time. In 2010 another album“Loud” would once again achieve great commercial success and receive rave reviews from critics, thanks in large part to the songs “What’s My Name,” “Only Girl (In the World),” and “S&M.” Along with a long list own songs, Rihanna performs duets with other singers: “Run This Town” with Jay-Z, “Love the Way You Lie" with Eminem and "All of the Lights" with Kanye West.
In 2011, Rihanna released her sixth studio album, “Talk That Talk.” The song “We Found Love” from this album, performed in a duet with DJ Kevin Harris, received a Grammy award for best video clip in 2013.
Gossip
The singer’s personal life also attracts keen interest, although often for reasons independent of her. The first rumors began to spread in 2006, when Rihanna was accused of having an affair with her mentor Jay-Z. But both stubbornly deny these rumors, calling them ridiculous. “At first I just nodded and laughed at it,” Rihanna says. “Now I ignore it and don’t pay attention. I can't stop people from talking about what they like."
Personal life
In 2009, Rihanna's name hit the front pages of newspapers and magazines, full of angry headlines about how her then-boyfriend Chris Brown beat the singer right before the awards ceremony. This incident sparks a wave of public support for Rihanna, and she has since become an active campaigner against domestic violence. “It happened to me personally,” the singer says in an interview with Diane Sawyer. - “And it can happen to anyone.”
Rihanna later became romantically involved with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, but the couple separated after some time.
Since his first appearance on the scene, the Barbadian star has been appearing almost continuously at the top of the pop music charts. For almost six years now, turning on the radio and visiting dance clubs, we have invariably heard the enchanting rhythms of Rihanna’s songs. But despite a steady stream of hits and a cool public image, the singer admits that she is just a vulnerable girl who has seen a lot of bad things in her life and now has to make a lot of effort to live with it.
“I try my best to control myself,” she will say after beating Chris Brown in 2009. “I don’t want people to see me cry. I don't want to look pathetic in their eyes. This period of my life was very painful, and I categorically did not want this to become my image. I wanted to be known as strong and successful. And I created this appearance until it became reality.”
In 2012, there were rumors that Rihanna and Brown were getting back together. The couple worked together on the song “Birthday Cake,” released the same year. And in August, the singer will give Oprah Winfrey a very frank interview about her relationship with Chris. She will talk about how Brown may be the love of her life and that they have a "very close connection."
Present time
In her next successful album “Unapologetic” in 2012, Rihanna presented the world with new hits, “Diamonds” and “Stay”. She also recorded the hit “Princess of China” with the group “Coldplay” and is working on the song “Love the Way You Lie” with rapper Eminem. And next year, her duet with Eminem in the song “The Monster” will conquer the top of the charts.
In June 2014, Rihanna, famous for her extravagant style, will once again be featured on magazine covers after the singer appeared in a very revealing dress in front of the American Council of Fashion Designers at the annual awards show. She was invited to the ceremony to receive the "Style Icons" award established by the Council. Her quote will appear in the Associated Press after this: “Style has always been a means of protection for me.” Rihanna admits that fashion has its own rules, although she notes that “rules are made to be broken.” At the same time, the singer made a bold step in her career: she broke her contract with Del Jam and moved to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label.
Quotes
“If the whole world turns left, I immediately go right. I need someone who will just let me be real."
"I believe in another chance, but I don't believe everyone deserves one."
“It’s not love that’s complicated, it’s people that are complicated.”
“I express my protest through my music, my style, my tattoos and my hairstyle.”
“In my love relationships, I am still conservative.”
“Boys will remain boys!!! Because they can't be men!
“People think that being young means you don’t understand anything in life, but that’s not true. In life, in love and in disappointments, we act the same way as an older woman would act.”
“I could never call myself this word: “weak.” If I were weak, I wouldn't be able to get out of all this. No effort."
“After so many years of suffering, after all the anger and sadness, I decided to become who I am and find balance. Now I'm able to hold it."
“I firmly decided for myself that it was more important for me to become happy, and I would not allow anyone to stand in my way. Even if I make a mistake, it will be my mistake.”
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Rihanna, real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty. She was born on February 20, 1988 in Barbados. American R&B and pop singer and actress of Barbadian origin. In 2005, Rihanna released her debut work Music of the Sun
, which entered the top ten albums on the Billboard 200, and the single "Pon de Replay" became a success on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Less than a year later, the singer released her second studio album A Girl like Me , which reached its maximum in best five
Billboard album chart, and “SOS” became Rihanna’s first single to top the Hot 100 chart. Third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad
(2007) included four hit singles "Umbrella", "Take a Bow", "Disturbia", "Don"t Stop the Music" and received nine Grammy nominations, winning in the category "Best Collaboration (Vocals/ rap)" for the song "Umbrella" featuring rapper Jay-Z. Her fourth studio album Rated R
was released in November 2009. Several songs from the album became top ten singles, namely "Russian Roulette", "Hard" and "Rude Boy", which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Fifth studio album Loud
(2010) included three number one singles: “Only Girl (In the World)”, “What’s My Name?” and "S&M". Sixth studio album was released on November 18, 2011 and included the hit single "We Found Love", which became Rihanna's 11th No. 1 on the Hot 100 and remained at the top for 10 weeks.
Seventh album Unapologetic was released on November 19, 2012, preceded by the lead single "Diamonds".
In 2016, the singer’s eighth album was released - Anti.
Rihanna is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 20 million albums and 60 million singles.
She is the youngest artist in Billboard history to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart fourteen times.
As of July 2015, the singer's singles have sold more than 100 million copies, making Rihanna the first artist in history to achieve this figure.
Billboard magazine named Rihanna the "Digital Artist of the 2000s" and ranked her 17th overall among artists of the 2000s.
The singer has received many awards, including the World International Music Award Music Awards 2007 in the categories Best Selling Pop Female Artist and Female Artist of the Year, as well as at the BRIT Awards in the category Best International Female Artist.
Rihanna is the winner of eight Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards and a special Icon Award, eighteen awards Billboard Music Awards, the singer is also the official honorary ambassador of Barbados culture.
Rihanna - Pour It Up
She is the eldest child of Monica Braithwaite, a retired accountant of Afro-Guyanese descent, and Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor at a clothing factory. Her mother is a native of Guyana, and her father is of Barbadian and Irish descent.
Rihanna has two younger brothers: Rorry and Rajad Fenty. In addition, there are two sisters and another brother on her father’s side, who were born from different mothers before the wedding of the singer’s parents.
She grew up influenced by Reggae music and began singing at the age of seven.
The future star's childhood was deeply affected by his father's addiction to crack cocaine, alcohol and marijuana. Her parents divorced when she was 14, although her father remained a part of her life.
From the age of eight until her parents' divorce, Rihanna suffered from excruciating headaches. Doctors believed that 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. She studied at primary school Charles F. Broome Memorial School in Barbados, and then at Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with her classmates. She was also a cadet in the military training program taught by the Barbadian military.
She originally wanted to finish high school, but then decided to drop out because she was busy with her music career.
Rihanna with her father, brothers and sister
In December 2003, the artist met American producer Evan Rogers through his wife, with whom he came to Barbados for the weekend. Rihanna and two members of the girl group came to Rogers' hotel for the audition. Evan Rogers later said: “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was as if the other two members of the group didn’t exist.”.
At the audition, Rihanna sang a cover of Destiny's Child's song "Emotion." Impressed, Rogers made a second meeting with her, inviting her to do some recordings in a New York studio with Carl Starken, and he also wanted to meet the girl's mother. After that when the singer turns 16, she wins school competition beauty Miss Combermere and creative competition, singing Mariah Carey's song "Hero".
Over the next year, Rihanna and her mother visited Rogers in Stamford, Connecticut. With Starken's help, she recorded a four-song demo that included the ballad "Last Time", a cover of Whitney Houston's "For the Love of You" and "Pon de Replay", which became her first hit. Because of her studies, she had to work in the studio only during the summer and Christmas holidays, so it took her whole year.
In 2005, Rogers began distributing Rihanna's demo tape to various record labels. One of the copies was sent to Def Jam Recordings, from where it was given to rapper Jay-Z. When he heard "Pon de Replay", he was initially skeptical of Rihanna because he felt that the song was too strong for her and argued: "A song with such scope is a big challenge for a new artist, you need to be remembered by people, and they will remember the song, not the artist. I don’t sign contracts with songs, but with artists.”
Def Jam was the first label to invite Rihanna to audition, where she sang "For the Love of You" for Jay-Z and Antonio L. Reid of Island Def Jam Music Group. The singer signed a contract on the same day and canceled all meetings with other labels.
After signing a contract with Def Jam in February 2005, the singer moved to the United States and lived with Rogers and his wife. She chose her middle name as her stage name.
After signing with Def Jam, Rihanna spent the next three months in the studio recording her debut album.
Producers Evan Rogers, Carl Starken, Stargate and Poke & Tone took part in the creation of the album. She first collaborated with rapper Memphis Bleek for his fourth studio album 534, which was released before her debut work.
On August 22, 2005, the singer released her first single "Pon de Replay", which rose to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. The song became a worldwide hit and became a top ten single in 15 countries.
Rihanna's debut album was released in August 2005. In 2005, Rihanna released her debut work on the territory of the United States of America. The LP appeared at number 10 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 69,000 copies. The album sold 2 million copies worldwide and was certified gold by the American Association of record companies.
Rihanna - Pon De Replay
Her music album was sold in the Reggae section due to the singer's Caribbean heritage. The album received mixed reviews from music critics. Magazine Rolling Stone gave it 2.5 stars out of five, commenting that the record's lack of importance, the single's inventiveness and rhythm, with "unremarkable vocal hiccups and unnecessary embellishments in the song", American R&B is modified before its "Caribbean charm".
A month after the release of her debut work, Rihanna began recording her second studio album, which was worked on by producers Evan Rogers and Carl Starker, the creative team Stargate, Jonathan Rotem and singer-songwriter Ne-Yo.
During the recording of the album, Rihanna performed as an opening act for Gwen Stefani's concerts to promote her debut album.
Main single "SOS" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming Rihanna's first hit in the United States.
Less than a year later, the singer released her second studio album was released in April 2006, less than eight months after her debut album. The album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 115,000 copies, subsequently receiving platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.
A Girl like Me peaked at number one on the Canadian chart and number five on the UK and Irish charts. The album received mixed reviews from music critics. Rolling Stone magazine commented: " New album is similar to her debut, but is a superior follow-up just because of the lead single "SOS."
Working on third studio album Third studio album(2007) Rihanna wanted to move in a new direction with music producers Timbaland, Will.i.am and Sean Garrett, transforming some songs with a new, danceable sound. Unlike previous studio projects that focused on dancehall, reggae and ballads, characteristic feature Good Girl Gone Bad has a Dance-Pop sound. I received the album positive reviews from music critics and became her most acclaimed project compared to her previous ones at the time.
Four songs from the album Good Girl Gone Bad reached the top three singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart - including worldwide famous hit "Umbrella" featuring Jay-Z, which spent ten consecutive weeks at number one in the UK, became the longest-running single at number one since Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around", which spent 15 weeks at the top of the chart in 1994.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, the single is ranked third on the list of the 100 best songs of 2007.
Rihanna - Umbrella (Orange Version) ft. JAY-Z
In 2007, Rihanna won Best Soul/R&B Female Artist at the American Music Award.
The singer received four nominations at the 2007 MTV VMAs, winning two of them: Best Single of the Year and Video of the Year.
At the 50th Grammy Awards, Rihanna was awarded Best working together rap, and also received five other nominations, including Best Recording of the Year, Best Dance Recording, Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group and Best R&B Song.
At the 2008 American Music Awards, Rihanna won in two categories: Best Pop/Rock Female Artist and Best Soul/R&B Female Artist.
On February 8, 2009, Rihanna's scheduled performance at the 51st Grammy Awards was canceled due to the singer being beaten by her boyfriend Chris Brown (see below for details).
For the first time after these events, she appeared as central character in Kanye West's "Paranoid" video. She also collaborated with Jay-Z and West on the song "Run This Town", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted high in ten countries around the world.
The singer's fourth studio album - Her fourth studio album- was released on November 23, 2009. Rolling Stone magazine gave the album a positive review, saying that "Rihanna has transformed her sound with one of the best albums of the year." Rated R debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of one million copies. The first three singles from the album: "Russian Roulette", "Hard" and "Rude Boy" reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
In January 2010, the performer won two awards at the Barbados Music Awards in the categories "Artist of the Decade" and "Song of the Decade" for the song "Umbrella".
At the NRJ Music Awards she received the title of "International Singer of the Year".
During the summer of 2010, she worked on the song with rapper Eminem "Love the Way You Lie", which later became a No. 1 hit on the US chart. The song became the seventh No. 1 single of Rihanna's career, making her the fifth-most No. 1 hit in Hot 100 history. wax figure Rihanna was presented at Madame Tussauds in Washington.
At the same time, she took part in the recording of a Kanye West song. "All of the Lights" for his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
In 2010 she created her own company Rihanna Entertainment, in which she decided to unite her entire business, including music, films, perfumes, fashion and book publishing.
On November 16, 2010, the singer released her fifth studio album, Loud, which peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 207,000 copies, the best weekly album sales of her career. The lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, also in Australia, Canada and the UK. The song won Best Dance Recording at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Her third international single, "S&M", featured Rihanna, repeating the success of her previous two songs, making Rihanna the youngest artist in the history of the chart to appear at the top of the chart ten times.
Rihanna & Britney Spears - S&M (Live Billboard Music Awards 2011)
In October 2011, two songs featuring Rihanna were released: “Princess of China” from the Coldplay album Mylo Xyloto and “Fly” from the album Pink Friday.
Within a month, the singer appeared as a guest jury member on the American reality show The X Factor.
Rihanna's sixth studio album Sixth studio album was released on November 21, 2011 in two versions: De Luxe and Standard. On September 22, 2011, the radio premiere of the lead single “We Found Love” took place, which on the same day became available for commercial sale through iTunes. After "We Found Love" reached number 9 on the US chart, Rihanna became the fastest solo performers V Hot stories 100, which had twenty singles in the top ten, thereby breaking the record previously set.
Rihanna took part in the filming of Peter Berg's film "Battleship", which was released on April 12, 2012. The film premiered in Russia on April 19, 2012.
On September 26, 2012, Rihanna released her first single entitled "Diamonds" from his seventh album. The lyrics were written by Australian singer Sia and produced by Benny Blanco and StarGate.
In November 2012, the singer's seventh album was released. Unapologetic. The album released 5 singles: “Diamonds”, “Stay”, “Pour It Up”, “Right Now” and “What Now”. Diamonds reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Stay reached number 3, and the rest of the singles were also quite successful on the charts. Video clips were shot for all singles, except for the song Right Now.
At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, Rihanna's seventh studio album, Unapologetic, won Best Urban Contemporary Album and earned the singer her eighth statuette.
At the end of November 2013, views of the music video “Hate That I Love You” crossed the 100 million views threshold, which means that Rihanna received her 16th Vevo certification.
On November 24, 2013, the American Music Awards ceremony took place. The singer received the first-ever AMA Award, the Icon Award, for her contributions to music industry. Rihanna also won in the category " Best Singer R&B/Soul."
At the end of October, it became known that Rihanna and Eminem had recorded their fourth duet composition - "The Monster". A video was released for it. The track “The Monster” managed to top the Billboard Pop Songs chart. Thus, as many as 11 Rihanna singles reached the top of this chart, which is a record figure.
In December 2013, rumors about another duet of the singer - with Shakira - were confirmed. The song “Can’t Remember to Forget You” was released in January 2014 and became the lead single from the new album.
On January 24, 2015, the premiere of the new single “FourFiveSeconds”, recorded together with Kanye West and.
On November 22, 2015, at the American Music Awards, Rihanna won the Best Soul/R&B Female Artist category. This was Rihanna's record fifth victory in this category.
On January 28, 2016, the premiere of the eighth album took place Anti. The album's release was delayed numerous times throughout 2015 and was accompanied by much media speculation regarding its recording and promotional campaign. In anticipation of the album's release, three songs were released: "FourFiveSeconds", "Bitch Better Have My Money" and "American Oxygen", which were not included in the final Anti track listing.
Anti premiered on the streaming service Tidal. Listeners could listen to the entire album and download it for free. Thanks to this promotion, Anti was downloaded from the site in a million copies in the first 14 hours from the moment of release, and the record itself was listened to more than 13 million times per day, which became a kind of record. For the same reason, the album received a platinum certification from the RIAA on the second day of release. At the same time, the singer was awarded a certificate as the only artist in history to sell 100 million copies of her songs.
In its second week of debut, Anti topped the weekly Billboard 200 album chart.
The first single from the album was the song "Work", recorded together with Canadian rapper Drake, which later became the singer’s fourteenth hit to top the American Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Rihanna's height: 173 centimeters.
Rihanna's personal life:
The singer was in a relationship with hip-hop artist Chris Brown, who is two years younger than her.
In 2009, a 19-year-old (at that time) musician severely beat the singer and fled the scene of the crime.
On February 8, 2009, Rihanna's scheduled performance at the 51st Grammy Awards was canceled due to being beaten by her boyfriend.
On March 5, 2009, Brown was charged with assault and criminal endangerment. After photos from the Los Angeles Police Department were leaked and published by TMZ, everyone saw that Rihanna had suffered serious injuries.
The organization STOParazzi proposed a law named after the singer "Rihanna's Law", according to which “law enforcement officials do not have the right to distribute photographs or any other information regarding crime victims.”
Rihanna beaten by Chris Brown
Brown later voluntarily came to the station. At the hearing, Brown initially denied his guilt, but the court sentenced the singer to community service and five years of probation. Some time after the verdict and execution of the punishment, Brown repented, which he openly spoke about more than once and publicly asked for forgiveness from his ex-girlfriend.
After breaking up with Brown, she dated Los Angeles Dodger baseball player Matt Kemp.
She then had a relationship with basketball player JR Smith.
In 2011, singer Usher became Rihanna's boyfriend.
In October 2012, Rihanna resumed her relationship with Chris Brown. But not for long. In the spring of 2013, they broke up again.
In 2015, the singer became involved with a French football player, Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema.
In the fall of 2015, it became known about Rihanna's affair with rapper Travis Scott, co-author of the singer's scandalous song "Bitch Better Have My Money."
The singer also has a long-term romance with the actor. They have been dating off and on for many years. The last time they spent a romantic weekend in Paris was in January 2016, where they...
Over the years, Rihanna has also been credited with having an affair with racer Lewis Hamilton. However, the athlete himself states that he has known the singer for many years; they often spend time together, but only as friends.
Fans immediately gave Drake and Rihanna a common nickname - DriRi. They first met back in 2005. As Drake himself recalled, the young star was just filming her first video, “Pon de Replay,” in Toronto. The rapper was introduced to her as "a guy who played in a restaurant while people ate."
Rihanna is known for her numerous tattoos.
So, after being beaten by Chris Brown, she tattooed small pistols on her sides of the ribs and the inscription on her collarbone “Never a failure, always a lesson,” which translates as “Not a mistake, but a lesson.”
She also has a Pisces sign behind her ear, Shhh and Love inscriptions on her fingers, a falcon on her ankle (previously there was a treble clef and a note there), a small star on the cartilage of her ear and a starburst on her back, inscriptions (in Sanskrit, Arabic, two on English), date of birth best friend, pistol on the right side, skull with bow on the ankle, Maori tribal pattern on the wrist, under the chest - the Egyptian goddess Isis, dedicated to Rihanna's late grandmother (Clara "Dolly" Braithwaite, who died on July 1, 2012 from cancer), an image of Nefertiti located on the left side.
In 2014, while on tour in New Zealand, she had a Maori tribe tattooed on her arm.
Rihanna discography:
2005 - Music of the Sun
2006 - A Girl like Me
2007 - Good Girl Gone Bad
2009 - Rated R
2010 - Loud
2011 - Talk That Talk
2012 - Unapologetic
2016 - Anti
Filmography of Rihanna:
2006 - Bring It On 3: All or Nothing - cameo
2012 - Battleship - Cora Raikes
2012 - Katy Perry: Part of Me ( Katy Perry: Part of Me) - cameo
2013 - End of the world 2013: Apocalypse Hollywood style ( The End of the World) - cameo
2014 - Annie - Moon Goddess
2015 - mf House (Home) - Gift
2015 - Love Thy Neighbor - cameo
2016 - Dr. Ken - Lorraine
2017 - Valerian and the city of a thousand planets (Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets)
Full name Rihanna - Robin Rihanna Fenty(Robyn Rihanna Fenty).
- this is her middle name, which she took as her stage name. Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988 in St. Michael, Barbados. Rihanna's mother, Monica Braithwaite, was an accountant. Father, Ronald Fenty, was a warehouse inspector at a clothing factory. Rihanna has two younger brothers and two more sisters and a brother from her father's previous marriage. Rihanna's parents divorced when she was 14 years old. From the age of 8 to 14, Rihanna suffered from severe headaches and doctors suspected she had a brain tumor. The future star's childhood was modest; she had to sell clothes in her father's tent. Rihanna started singing at the age of 7. At school she formed a trio with her classmates. The singer did not graduate from high school and decided to quit for the sake of musical career
. In December 2003, when she was 15 years old, Rihanna and her trio auditioned for American producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados. Rogers was impressed with Rihanna and invited her to make a demo recording in the United States. It took a whole year to record the four-song demo, since Rihanna could only come to the studio during the holidays.
In 2005, Rogers distributed a demo to record labels, and Def Jam Recordings became interested in the performer and signed a contract with her. Rihanna moved to live in the United States of America. In 2005, Rihanna released her debut work was recorded in 3 months. On August 22, 2005, the first single, "Pon de Replay", was released and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Charts. The album "Music of the Sun" sold 2 million copies and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. But music critics' assessment was mixed.
A month after the release of her debut work, Rihanna began recording her second studio album Less than a year later, the singer released her second studio album, which was released in April 2006. The album's lead single, "SOS", reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart. Rihanna's second album was certified platinum and again received mixed reviews from music critics. After the release of her second album, Rihanna embarked on her first solo concert tour, Rihanna: Live in Concert Tour, and then a joint UK concert tour with the Pussycat Dolls from November 2006 to February 2007.
In the third album Third studio album Rihanna has transformed. She filled some songs with a new dance sound, made short haircut and dyed her hair black. This album topped the music charts in many countries and finally received positive reviews from music critics. Four songs from this album entered the top three singles on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart: "Umbrella", "Shut Up and Drive", "Don"t Stop the Music" and "Hate That I Love You". Thanks to this album , Rihanna won the 2007 American Music Award for Best Soul/R&B Female Artist. In June 2008, Rihanna re-released this album as "Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded", adding 3 new songs, and then. released again with remixes entitled "Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes". It was the best-selling album of Rihanna's career and she received many different awards for it.
In February 2009, an incident occurred. Rihanna was unable to attend the 51st Grammy Awards. It became known that Rihanna was physically injured by her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. He was sentenced to community service and given 5 years probation.
On November 23, 2009, Rihanna released her fourth album Her fourth studio album, which again received positive reviews from music critics. Three songs from this album, "Russian Roulette", "Hard" and "Rude Boy", made it into the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 music chart. During this period, Rihanna created her own company, Rihanna Entertainment, in which she combined her entire business, including music , films, perfumes, fashion and book publishing.
Fifth album Fifth studio album was released on November 16, 2010. In June 2011, Rihanna embarked on her international concert tour, the Loud Tour.
Sixth album Sixth studio album was released on November 21, 2011 in two versions: De Lux and Standard.
Rihanna also starred in the following films: "Bring It On 3: All or Nothing" - 2006, "Battleship" - 2012, "Katy Perry: Part of Me" - 2012, "The End of the World" - 2013 , "Home" - 2015.
IN this moment Rihanna's new song is expected to be published
