Rihanna

Rihanna

Born
February 20, 1988 in Bridgetown, St. Michael, Barbados

Birth Name
Robyn Rihanna Fenty

Height
5' 8" (1.74 m)

Mini Bio
Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988 in Bridgetown, St. Michael, Barbados to Monica Braithwaite, an accountant & Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor. Her mother is Afro-Guyanese and her father is of Afro-Barbadian and British Isles ancestry. Rihanna lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top sixth form school. Rihanna won numerous beauty pageants and performed Mariah Carey's single, Hero in a school talent show. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers, a producer from New York who was in Barbados for a vacation with his wife, who is a native. Rodgers arranged for her to go to New York to meet Jay-Z, CEO of Def Jam Records. He heard her sing and knew she was going to be incredibly successful. She was age 16 when she was signed to Def Jam. Since then, she's amassed phenomenal success.

**FF-W** · 18th November 2010, 05:22

Singer Rihanna gave the city of New York a performance at Time Square as part of ABC's "Good Morning America" show on November 17, 2010. Rihanna sang her latest hit song "only Girl (In THe World)" which still holds a spot on the Billboard Hot 100 list.