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Robyn Rihanna Fenty (her real name) was born on February 20, 1988. Originally from Barbados, the singer and dancer has released six studio albums since 2005. Marked by a difficult childhood, witness to her father's addiction to drugs and victim of racism, Rihanna was discovered at the age of 15 by producer Evan Rogers, who put her in touch with Jay-Z, with whom she signed on the label he then ran, Def Jam, sorry.
She was first known for her festive songs, between R&B and pop, with the singles Pon de Replay, SOS and, in 2007, with the hits Umbrella and Don't Stop the Music. The album Good Girl Gone Bad, from which they are taken, has been nominated nine times for the Grammy Awards.
Releasing her albums at the mechanical rate of one a year, the young girl benefits from a media exposure which earned her being named in 2012 by TIME magazine among the most influential people in the world, although it is suspected male voters to lack objectivity.
Rihanna holds the record for the most number of singles ranked No. 1 on Billboard since 2011, with eleven titles, and this the fastest, thus dethroning Mariah Carey. Among other trivial distinctions, she is one of the few artists to have exceeded one billion views on YouTube, even reaching 2 billion, becoming the most viewed artist. On the diversification side, she tried her hand at cinema in 2012, when she played a soldier in Battleship.
Sadder, it is mainly for her tumultuous relationship with Chris Brown that she made the headlines. Then in a relationship for a year, the rapper struck Rihanna on February 8, 2009, seriously injuring her in the face. The case goes to court: Chris Brown narrowly escapes five years in prison. A violent dispute which did not prevent them from getting back together, if we are to believe the rumours: on the occasion of the violent clash of June 2012 between Drake and Chris Brown about him, it was towards her that his ex turned to console himself. Since June 2017, the singer has been dating Hassan Jameel, a wealthy Saudi businessman, from whom she separates in January 2020. In May 2021, rapper A$AP Rocky formalizes, during an interview with GQ, his story of love with the singer. On January 31, 2022, the couple formalizes, on Instagram, the pregnancy of the singer.
