What image of Rihanna lives without rent in your head?
Robyn Rihanna Fenty (her real name) was born on February 20, 1988. Originally from Barbados, the singer and dancer has released six studio albums since 2005. Marked by a difficult childhood, witness to her father’s addiction to drugs and victim of racism, Rihanna was discovered at the age of 15 by producer Evan Rogers, who put her in touch with Jay-Z, with whom she signed to the label he then ran, Def Jam , sorry.
She first became known for her festive songs, between R&B and pop, with the singles Pon de Replay, SOS and, in 2007, with the hits Umbrella and Don’t Stop the Music. The album Good Girl Gone Bad, from which they are taken, has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards.
Releasing her albums at the mechanical rate of one a year, the young girl benefits from a media exposure which earned her the title of 2012 by TIME magazine among the most influential people in the world, even if one suspects the male voters to lack objectivity.
Rihanna holds the record for the most singles ranked No. 1 on the Billboard since 2011, with eleven titles, and this the fastest, thus dethroning Mariah Carey. Among other trivial distinctions, she is one of the rare artists to have exceeded one billion views on YouTube, even reaching 2 billion, becoming the most viewed artist. In terms of diversification, she tried her hand at cinema in 2012, when she played a soldier in Battleship.
Sadder, it is especially for her tumultuous relationship with Chris Brown that she hit the headlines. Then in a relationship for a year, the rapper punched Rihanna on February 8, 2009, seriously injuring her face. The case goes to court: Chris Brown narrowly escapes five years in prison. A violent dispute which did not prevent them from getting back together, if we are to believe the rumours: on the occasion of the violent clash of June 2012 between Drake and Chris Brown about him, it was towards her that his ex turned to console himself. Since June 2017, the singer has been dating Hassan Jameel, a wealthy Saudi businessman, from whom she separated in January 2020. In May 2021, rapper A$AP Rocky formalized, during an interview with GQ, his story of love with the singer. On January 31, 2022, the couple formalizes, on Instagram, the pregnancy of the singer.
