Name: Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty)
Other Name(s): RiRi, Ri Ri
Age: 23
Height: 5′ 9″ (175 cm)
Build: Slim
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Black
Date of Birth: February 20, 1988
Birthplace: Saint Michael
Star Sign: Pisces
Nationality: Barbadian
Ethnicity: Multiracial

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist and singer. 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.^[2]

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 theBillboard 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, just 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 Girl (In the World)”, “What’s My Name?” and “S&M”.^[3][4] ”We Found Love” was released in September 2011 as the lead single from her sixth studio album and has topped the charts in over ten countries. Talk That Talk, Rihanna’s sixth album, was released in November 2011.

Rihanna has sold more than 30 million albums and 100 million singles^[5] which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time. She is the youngest artist in Billboard charts history to achieve eleven number-one singles on the Hot 100.^[6] As of January 2011, Rihanna had sold approximately 33.7 million digital singles in the United States.^[7] By September 2011 she had shipped 7.3 million album units in the US.^[8]Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade,^[9] and ranked her as the 17th Artist of the 2000s decade.^[10] She has received several accolades, including the 2007 World Music Awards for World’s Best-Selling Pop Female Artist and Female Entertainer of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Female Solo Artist.^[11] She has also amassed a total of four Grammy Awards, fiveAmerican Music Awards, and eighteen Billboard Music Awards. Rihanna has also been appointed the official ambassador of youth and culture for Barbados.^[12]