Rihanna

Biography of Rihanna

Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988 in Saint Michael, Barbados.

She is the daughter of Monica Braithwaite, an Afro-Guyanese accountant, and Barbadian Ronald Fenty, a warehouse manager of Irish descent. She had two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty, two half-sisters and a half-brother on her father's side.

She attended Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School and Combermere High School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates.

In 2005, her first album Music of the Sun was published, which sold 69,000 copies. It achieved two platinum records for more than 600,000 digital downloads in the country and two gold records.

In 2006 she presented A Girl Like Me, an album with about four million copies. It was awarded platinum status in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland, and gold status in France and Germany.

On September 9, 2007, she attended the MTV Video Music Awards alongside rapper Chris Brown. She was nominated in three categories and won awards for two of them: Best Video of the Year and Gigantic Single of the Year.

Rated R was released in November 2009. The album achieved great success, reaching number 1 in countries such as Brazil, Switzerland, France or Norway. He got gold and platinum records. Her fifth studio album, Loud, was released on November 16, 2010.

Her sixth studio album, Talk That Talk, appeared in 2011 with the hits We Found Love and Where Have You Been. With We Found Love he achieved his eleventh number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Her seventh studio album was titled Unapologetic, and was released in November 2012. In the United States it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, Diamonds, reached number one in more than twenty countries around the world.

On January 26, 2016, she released her eighth studio album Anti through Westbury Road and Roc Nation record labels. Available via digital and free download through the music platform Tidal.

In 2012, she made her acting debut in the movie Battleship, a role for which she was recognized with a Teen Choice Award for "Breakthrough Actress." She later worked on the comedy This Is the End (2013), the musical drama Annie (2014), Home (2015), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018).

She had been in a relationship since 2008 with singer Chris Brown.

From December 2009 to 2010, she dated baseball star Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She was also linked to Canadian rapper Drake.

In 2017, she began a relationship with Saudi businessman Hassan Jameel. They reportedly broke up in January 2020.