Please don’t stop the music when you talk about Rihanna!
Are you sitting at home, wondering about Rihanna’s life? Who she is? Where she comes from and how did she started her career in the music industry?
Well, we have the answers you are looking for and just so you know Rihanna rocks our world!
- She was born on 20th of February in 1988.
- Rihanna is from Barbados and she was born in Saint Michael.
- She was raised in Bridgetown.
- Riri has 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 used to sell clothes with her dad in a stall on the street.
- She went through a lot of CT scans for the excruciating headaches she suffered.
- By the age of seven she started singing and listened to a lot of music.
- Rihanna was an army cadet in a sub-military programme.
- Record producer Evan Rogers discovered her in Barbados.
- She performed renditions of Destiny’s Child’s “Emotion” and Mariah Carey’s “Hero” for him and then he had a serious talk with her mother.
- She auditioned in 2005 for Jay-Z after he heard her demos.
- A. Reid was also impressed with her audition, telling Jay-Z not to let Rihanna leave the building until the contract was signed.
- Rihanna has named Madonna as her idol and biggest influence.
- Bob Marley is also one of her favorite singers.
- Rihanna has created a make-up line called Fenty (her full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty).
- In February 2013, Rihanna presented her first women’s spring fashion collection at London Fashion Week for British street fashion brand River Island, collaborating with her personal stylist Adam Selman.
- She received the Fashion Icon Award at the 2014 Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Awards at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and everybody thinks she is a true trendsetter.
- On 21 September 2018, Rihanna was appointed by the government of Barbados to be an Ambassador at-Large.
- She used to date Chris Brown and that’s we are going to say.
- Rihanna is to present her “Savage X Fenty” lingerie line in the New York Fashion Week on 12 September 2018.