Facts about Rihanna

• Her birth name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty• She was born on the 20th February 1988• She was born in Saint. Michael, Barbados• Her first song was released in 2005• Her official website is Rihannanow.com

Her mother, Monica, was an accountant Her Father, Ronald Fenty, was a warehouse supervisor. She is the youngest of three. She has two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. Her parents divorced when she was 14. Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then the Combermere School, where she formed a musical band with two of her classmates when she was fifteen. In 2004 she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant. She was also an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados.

• Rihanna moved to the United

States at the age of 16 to carry

on with a recording career

under the care of record

producer Evan Rogers. She then

signed a contract with Def Jam

Recordings and became

famous.

Rihanna says her influences are……. Mariah Carey, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Bob Marley, Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Gwen Stefani.Rihanna’s music is known as and based on Reggae, Dancehall, R&B, Urban pop and Eurodance. Rihanna has sung with, Chase & Status, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Shontelle, Ne-Yo, Nicki Minaj, Eminem and Britney Spears.

• In 2009, Rihanna’s previous boyfriend Chris Brown, was

arrested for beating Rihanna while they were going out. A

picture of Rihanna was leaked onto the internet from Los

Angeles police department TMZ, the picture showed her

face battered and bruised after the beating. Chris Brown

was sent to prison and when he was bailed out, had a

restraining order and was to stay at least 500 feet away

from Rihanna. The limit has been reduced by half in the

last year.

• In late 2010, Rihanna dyed her hair colour from black to

red. She said she felt like a change, and red felt like the

colour to change it to. Critics have slated her new style

and gave up when Rihanna did not react. Rihanna said

that that was her aim.

• Rihanna has over 2,880,882 followers on twitter!

• Half of Rihanna’s followers are fans• The other half are famous friends• Some of them are managers and agents• Some of them are people who don’t even

like her• And the rest are probably doing it to get

other people to look at them!