Robyn Rihanna Fenty
February 20, 1988
Robyn Rihanna Fenty Fashion Icon with her brand has made over 1 billion dollars.
Robyn was born on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados. Her mother, Monica Braithwaite, is a retired accountant, her father, Ronald Fenty, is a warehouse supervisor. She has two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty, and two half-sisters and a half-brother from her father’s side, each born to different mothers from his previous relationships.
She grew up in a three-bedroom bungalow in Bridgetown. At the age of seven, she began singing. She attended Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School and Combermere High School. She did not finish her academic studies. She went with her passion and love for music and the dream of dominating the world of music.
Rihanna was discovered in her home country Barbados by American record producer Evan Rogers. He was so impressed by her looks and performance Evan then asked permission to have her come to New York accompanied with her mother to record her first demo tapes which she would market to record labels.
Rihanna was signed to Rogers’ and Carl Sturken’s production company , Syndicated Rhythm Productions, who assigned her a lawyer and manager, before the completed demo tape were distributed to various record labels around the world in late 2004. The first to respond to the demo tape was Shawn Carter, who had recently been appointed as president and Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings. He invited her to audition for him and music mogul L.A. Reid, in his office and from there the rest was history in the making.
Her vocal ability, style, acting, entrepreneurship and flair have made her today one of the biggest selling artist of all time. She has broken records and branded herself a dynasty.
Rihanna has sold over 30 million albums and 120 million singles worldwide. In the United States, Rihanna has sold over 10 million albums. Nielsen Sound Scan ranked her as the best-selling digital artist in the country, breaking the Guinness World Record for digital single sales of over 58 million as of 2012. On July 1, 2015 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that Rihanna had surpassed more than 100 million Gold & Platinum song certifications. Rihanna has the most Digital Single Awards and is the first and only artist to surpass RIAA’s 100 million cumulative singles award threshold. In the United Kingdom, she has sold over 7 million albums making her 3rd best selling female this century. Her collaboration with Eminem, “Love the Way You Lie”, together with “Umbrella”, “Disturbia”, “Only Girl (In the World)”, “We Found Love”, and “Diamonds”, are some of the best –selling singles of all time worldwide.
Rhianna has accumulated thirteen number one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, tying with Michael Jackson for the third most number ones in chart’s history. She has been named the top Pop Songs chart artist of the past twenty years by Billboard; she ranks first with most entries (36), most top tens (23), and most number ones (10). As of March 2014, Rihanna has sold over 18 million singles and six million albums in the United Kingdom. She is the tenth best-selling and the second best-selling female singles artist in the country, only behind Madonna and is second only to The Beatles for the most million-selling singles in the UK of all time. In August 2013, Rihanna was named the 15th biggest US Billboard Hot 100 artist of all time, becoming the highest ranking newcomer on the list since the last time Billboard compiled all time artists in 2008. In the same month, Billboard ranked Rihanna the top Hot 100 artist of the 2010s decade.
Rihanna has an honorary title of Ambassador for Culture and Youth in Barbados.
Her business ventures and collaboration with the designing world began In October 2005; Rihanna struck an endorsement deal with Secret Body Spray. In 2010, Rihanna featured in the Optus commercial, in conjunction with Optus supporting Rihanna’s Last Girl on Earth Tour. Rihanna also featured in the Kodak commercial along with rapper Pitbull. In October 2010, the singer released an eponymous book. Rihanna launched her first fragrance, “Reb’l Fleur” on January 2011. Rihanna also became the face of Vita Coco in 2011. Her second fragrance, “Rebelle”, was released in February 2012. In November 2012, Rihanna released her third fragrance, “Nude”.In 2013, the singer collaborated with MAC Cosmetics and released her own summer, fall and holiday lines of makeup called “RiRi hearts MAC. Rihanna’s fourth women’s fragrance, titled Rogue was released on September 14, 2013. On March 30, 2015, it was announced that Rihanna is a co-owner of Tidal music streaming services which was acquired by Shawn Corey Carter. In July 2015, she announced her latest fragrance, RiRi by Rihanna. In July 2015, Rihanna announced a multi-year partnership with Stance, where she designs multiple seasons of a signature women’s collection of socks. Rihanna became the creative director of the fashion sportswear Puma, overseeing the brand’s women’s line which will include collaborations in apparel and footwear. In March 2015 it was announced that Rihanna was chosen as the new face of Dior; this makes her the first black woman to be the face of Dior.
In 2006, she created her Believe Foundation to help terminally ill children. Rihanna and other public figures designed clothing for the February 2008 H&M Fashion against AIDS line. She did a special with other artist on September 5, 2008, during the “Stand Up to Cancer” television special. The television special helped raise $100 million for cancer research. In November 2012, Rihanna gave $100,000 to food bank donation for Hurricane Sandy, the following month, Rihanna donated $1.75 million to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados. In November 2013, Rihanna pledged £61,000 to UNICEF, to help the victims of the typhoon in Philippines. On January 3, 2014 Rihanna was part of the MAC Viva Glam campaign, which benefits women, men, and children living with HIV/AIDS. Rihanna has stated that she believes in God and that she focuses on obeying God and reading her Bible. By launching her first Fenty brand makeup, clothing and becoming the first black to do so with LVMH. The brand has allowed her to have a net worth of over 600,000.00 which in the coming years will allow her to become part of the billionaires of the world.
In 2021 it was confirmed that Rihanna was in a relationship with rapper ASAP Rocky. The couple welcomed a baby boy the following year. In 2023 Rihanna revealed she was again pregnant by performing at the Super Bowl halftime show with a visible baby bump;