Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman, and actress, widely recognized for her artistic reinvention and influence across both music and fashion. With over 250 million records sold worldwide, she ranks among the best-selling music artists of all time.

Raised in Barbados with early interests in the arts, Rihanna signed to Def Jam Recordings in the mid-2000s. Her first two albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006), blended Caribbean influences and reached the top 10 of the US Billboard 200, producing the hit singles “Pon de Replay” and “SOS.”

She rose to global stardom with Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) and its reissue Reloaded (2008), embracing a more mature image and pivoting into dance-pop and R&B. The era produced several chart-topping singles including “Umbrella,” “Take a Bow,” and “Disturbia.” After the darker, rock-leaning Rated R (2009), Rihanna returned to high-energy dance-pop with Loud (2010) and Talk That Talk (2011), then earned her first Billboard 200 No. 1 with the synth-pop album Unapologetic (2012).

Following her departure from Def Jam, she joined Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and released Anti (2016), an eclectic, genre-bending project that became her second No. 1 album.

Over her career she has amassed fourteen Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles—among them “Rude Boy,” “Only Girl (In the World),” “What’s My Name?,” “S&M,” “We Found Love,” “Diamonds,” and “Work”—and holds the record as the highest-certified female digital singles artist by the RIAA, including seven diamond-certified singles.

Beyond music, Rihanna has appeared in multiple films including Battleship (2012), Home (2015), Ocean’s 8 (2018), and Smurfs (2025). Her entrepreneurial ventures span cosmetics, fashion, and philanthropy: she launched the Clara Lionel Foundation, co-founded the cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and created the fashion label Fenty under LVMH—becoming the first Black woman to lead a luxury house for the group. The first female musician to reach billionaire status, she was appointed an ambassador by the Government of Barbados in 2018 and was declared a National Hero of Barbados in 2021.