In 2005, Rihanna released her debut studio album, Music of the Sun, which peaked in the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart and features the Billboard Hot 100 hit single “Pon de Replay.” Less than a year later, she released her second studio album, A Girl Like Me (2006), which peaked within the top five of the Billboard albums chart, and produced her first Hot 100 number one single, “SOS”. She has received several accolades, including the 2007 World Music Awards for World’s Best-Selling Pop Female Artist and Female Entertainer of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Female Solo Artist. Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados, to Monica Braithwaite, a retired accountant, and Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor for a garment factory. Her childhood was deeply affected by her father’s addiction to crack cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana, and her parents’ rocky marriage ended when she was 14, although he remained a part of her life. It took a year to record the demos, as Rihanna was still going to school and therefore would only record during her summer and Christmas school breaks. Although she still thinks of herself as Robyn, she chose her middle name as her stage name because, to her, the name Rihanna is just a stage that started in a recording studio in 2005. The album reached number ten on the Billboard 200, selling 69,000 copies in its first week.
Rihanna takes a tumble Rihanna took an embarrassing tumble on stage last week in Canada while she was performing as part of her ‘Loud’ world tour. Rihanna took an embarrassi… [link]
