Robyn Rihanna Fenty NH (born 20 February 1988) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman. She started her music career in 2003. She has released eight studio albums and three DVDs.

Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) made her popular in the music business. The chart-topping single "Umbrella" earned Rihanna her first Grammy Award. Her next albums Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011), and Unapologetic (2012) became very popular. From these albums, her best known singles were "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?", "S&M", "We Found Love", "Where Have You Been" and "Diamonds". 

Rihanna was honored as a National Hero of Barbados on the first day of the country's independence in November 2021.

Career
Rihanna has won many awards. These include five American Music Awards, eighteen Billboard Music Awards, two BRIT Awards, and nine Grammy Awards. She has had fourteen number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2012, the American magazine Time named Rihanna one of the most influential people in the world. Rihanna was also ranked the fourth most powerful celebrity in 2012.  She earned $53 million between May 2011 and May 2012, according to Forbes. In 2013, Rihanna was given the first ever Icon Award at the American Music Awards. Rihanna's seventh album Unapologetic (2012) became her first number-one album in the United States. It won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. In 2015, a movie called Home was released. Rihanna voiced one of the main characters in it and was also the executive producer of the movie's soundtrack.

Her eighth studio album, Anti, was released to the streaming service Tidal and entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number 27.  It was a limited-time free download sponsored by Samsung.  It was certified Platinum in the U.S. only two days after it was released.  The next week, after the album was released to other marketplaces, it reached number one on the Billboard 200.  Anti features the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Work" (featuring Drake) and the top-ten hit "Needed Me".  She also recorded a song, "This Is What You Came For", with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris.  It reached the top ten on charts around the world.  The following year, she was featured on DJ Khaled's song "Wild Thoughts", which reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

Rihanna created a line of beauty products called Fenty Beauty.  On June 4, 2019, Natalie Robehmed of Forbes wrote that Rihanna had become the world's richest female musician, with a net worth of $600 million. Her net worth was updated in August 2021 to $1.7 billion.

Early life
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados to Monica (of Guyanese ancestry) and Ronald Fenty (of Irish and West Indian ancestry). She has two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.  She grew up in Bridgetown.

Influences
    

Madonna, Mariah Carey, and Bob Marley had a huge influence on Rihanna.

Personal life
On May 19, 2021, American rapper ASAP Rocky confirmed that he and Rihanna were in a relationship. On January 31, 2022, it was revealed that Rihanna was pregnant with the couple's first child.

Domestic violence case
On 8 February 2009, Rihanna was assaulted by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown after Brown was sending messages to a girl. Rihanna got angry and Brown beat her up. The LAPD leaked a photograph to TMZ which showed Rihanna with cuts and bruises on her face. On 22 June 2009, Brown pled guilty to the felony assault. He was ordered to five years probation and to stay fifty yards way from Rihanna, unless it is at a public event, at which it was ten yards.  In February 2011, the restraining order was changed to allow both singers to appear at awards shows together in the future.

Discography 
Studio albums

 Music of the Sun (2005)
 A Girl like Me (2006)
 Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
 Rated R (2009)
 Loud (2010)
 Talk That Talk (2011)
 Unapologetic (2012)
 Anti (2016)
Re-releases
 Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded (2008)
Remix albums
 Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes (2009)
 Rated R: Remixed (2010)
Soundtrack albums
 Home (2015)

Tours 
 Rihanna: Live in Concert Tour (2006)
 Good Girl Gone Bad Tour (2007–2009)
 Last Girl on Earth Tour (2010–2011)
 Loud Tour (2011)
 Diamonds World Tour (2013)
 The Monster Tour (2014) (with Eminem)
 Anti World Tour (2016)

Filmography 
 2004 - Bring It On: All or Nothing.... As Herself
 2006 - Mama Black Widow.... Carol Tilson
 2012 - Battleship Petty Officer (GM2) Cora Raikes
 2013 - This Is the End.... As Herself
 2017 - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets .... Bubbles
 2018 - Ocean's 8

Television 
 2006 - Punk'd

References

Other websites 

 Rihanna Official Website
 
 Rihanna's Believe Foundation

Barbadian musicians
R&B musicians
Pop musicians
Reggae musicians
Hip hop musicians
 
1988 births
Living people