Must Haves. Music Edition. Rihanna.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active2000s - 2020s

BornFebruary 20, 1988 in Saint Michael, Barbados

Genre

Pop/Rock

R&B

Styles

Pop

Dance-Pop

EDM

Contemporary R&B

ALBUMS

Music of the sun, a girl like me, good girl gone bad,rated r, loud, talk that talk, unapolegetic, anti

HITS

Umbrella, work, this is what you came for, pon de replay, dont stop the music, diamonds, take a bow, disturbia, sos, love the way you lie, s&m, rehab, we found love

CULTURAL IMPACT

Rihanna mounted her pop credentials in 2005 with "Pon de Replay," a boisterous debut unmarried that narrowly neglected the pinnacle of the Billboard Hot one hundred and fast-tracked her to turning into one of the maximum popular, acclaimed, and dynamic artists in postmillennial current music. Mixing and matching pop, dancehall, R&B, EDM, and grownup current cloth, Rihanna has been a near-consistent presence withinside the higher reaches of the pop chart. Through 2017, she headlined eleven primary hits, a number of which -- "Umbrella" and "Only Girl (In the World)" amongst them -- caused her 8 Grammy Awards. And greater than only a singles artist, Rihanna has usually driven in advance stylistically together along with her LPs, highlighted through the ambitious Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), steely Rated R (2009), and composed Anti (2016), all of which confounded expectancies and positioned in the Top Ten of the Billboard two hundred with eventual multi-platinum certifications. Her secondary discography as a featured artist is spectacular as well, with predominant crossover pop hits headlined through the likes of Jay-Z ("Run This Town"), Eminem ("Love the Way You Lie," "The Monster"), and Kendrick Lamar ("LOYALTY.").

Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna exhibited supermegacelebrity nice as a child, frequently prevailing splendor and skills contests. Because she lived on a reasonably far off island withinside the West Indies, however, she didn`t foresee the worldwide stardom she later attained. Her spoil got here courtesy of a fateful assembly with Evan Rogers, author and manufacturer of father hits for such massive names as *NSYNC, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, and Rod Stewart. The New Yorker turned into visiting in Barbados together along with his wife, an island native, whilst he turned into brought to an aspiring making a song organization that featured Rihanna. The trio completed for Rogers, who turned into then keen to paintings with Rihanna as a solo artist. After the fledgling singer recorded cloth with Rogers withinside the U.S. and signed with SRP (Syndicated Rhythm Productions), operated through Rogers and associate Carl Sturken, she sparked the hobby of the Carter Administration -- that is, the newly appointed Def Jam president Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. Following an audition, Rihanna well-known an on-the-spot provide to signal with the predominant label.