Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), better known as simply
Rihanna ( or ), is a Barbadian
R&B recording artist. Born in
Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer
Evan Rogers. She subsequently signed a contract with
Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for then-label head
Jay-Z.
In 2005, Rihanna released her debut studio album,
Music of the Sun, which peaked in the top ten of the
Billboard 200 chart and features the
Billboard Hot 100 hit single "
Pon de Replay." Less than a year later, she released her second studio album,
A Girl Like Me (2006), which peaked within the top five of the
Billboard albums chart, and produced her first Hot 100 number one single, "
SOS". Rihanna's third studio album,
Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), spawned four chart-topping singles "
Umbrella", "
Take a Bow", "
Disturbia" and "
Don't Stop the Music", and was nominated for nine
Grammy Awards, winning
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Umbrella," which features Jay-Z. Her fourth studio album
Rated R, released in November 2009, produced the top 10 singles "
Russian Roulette", "
Hard" and "
Rude Boy", which achieved the number-one spot on the
Billboard Hot 100.
Loud (2010), her fifth studio album, contains the number-one hits "
Only......
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