Rihanna

 Robyn Rihanna was born on February 20th, 1988) is an Barbadian singer, actress and businesswoman. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados and raised there. She auditioned for Evan Rogers, an American record producer, who invited Rihanna to the United States to record demo tapes. After signing with Def Jam in 2005, she soon gained recognition through the release of her first two studio albums: Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006) Both of them were heavily influenced by Caribbean music and peaked within the top ten on the US Billboard 200 chart.Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), incorporated elements of dance-pop and established her position as a sexual image in the music industry. Rihanna's first Grammy Award was won for the chart-topping track "Umbrella" that launched Rihanna into international fame. Rihanna continued to blend pop dance, and R&B genres on her subsequent studio albums: Rated R (2009), Loud (2010) Talk That Talk (2011), and Unapologetic (2012) which was the last of which was the first Billboard 200 number one. The albums spawned a string of chart-topping songs, including "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name? ", "S&M", "We found love", "Where Have You Been" and "Diamonds". Anti (2016) was her eighth album. It showed her new creative control after she left Def Jam. It was her second US top-selling album and featured the chart-topping single "Work". Rihanna worked with a variety of artists throughout her career. This included Jay-Z and Kanye West, Jay-Z, Britney Spears and Eminem. The album also included the chart-topping single "Work". She has earned 14 number-ones and 31 top-ten singles in the US and 30 top-ten entries in the UK. She has been awarded nine Grammy Awards, thirteen American Music Awards (including an Icon Award), twelve Billboard Music Awards and six Guinness World Records. Time listed her among the top 100 most influential people in the world in the years 2012 and 2018. Forbes ranked her among the top ten celebrities with the highest earnings in 2012 and 2014. Forbes listed her among the top ten highest paid celebrities in 2012 and in 2014. She is the founder of the non-profit organization Clara Lionel Foundation, cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH as well as the first woman of color to lead a luxury brand for LVMH. [7] Rihanna has also ventured into acting, having appeared in key roles in Battleship (2012), Home (2015), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). In the year 2018, she was named an ambassador for education, tourism and investments by Barbados.