Short Biography: Rihanna

Rihanna

I chose to write about the famous singer Rihanna. Rihannas full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty. Rihanna was born on February 20 in 1988, on the Caribbean island Barbados. Rihanna's music career began when she was 16 years old, when she and her two friends managed to score an audition with the music producer Evan Rogers. The music producer was really impressed by Rihanna's outstanding talent anyhow the unfortunate part of this case was that he was not as impressed by the other two girls and he couldn’t see a future for them as a group.

The same year as the audition, Rihanna began to pack her suitcase to follow Rogers to America and move in with him and his wife in Connecticut to start her career for real. Rihanna signed a contract with Def Jam Records in 2005 after she had been on an audition and performed in front of, the company’s president at the time, the famous hip-hop producer and rapper Jay-Z. Rihanna has mentioned in several interviews that Jay-Z became a close friend to her and has been and still is a great mentor. Jay-Z was just as

It did not take long for the single to reach No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart and Rihanna got marked as a ‘big-up-and-coming pop star’. She later that month released her first album called ‘Music of the sun’ and the album quickly reached No.10 on the Billboard albums chart. The year after her first album had been released she dropped a second album called ‘A girl like me’, the hits ‘SOS’ and ‘Unfaithful’ included on her second album had a big breakthrough and became Rihanna's first hits to become No. 1 on the chart. In 2007 she released her third album, named ‘Good girl gone bad’. You might say this was when she went through a transformation from this cute pop girl to a more ‘hardcore’ and edgy superstar. Included on the album is the song ‘Umbrella’, featured her mentor Jay-Z, that became a major smash hit and got Rihanna her first Grammy