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Rihanna Profile

Name: Rihanna

Birth Name: Robyn Rihanna Fenty

Height: 6'

Sex: F

Nationality: Barbadian

Birth Date: February 20, 1988

Birth Place: St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies

Profession: Musician, Actress

Education: Charles F. Broome Memorial School
Combermere (a sixth form school similar to technical school in America)

Father: Ronald Fenty (a Bajan)

Mother: Monica Fenty (a Guyanese)

Claim to fame: Her debut album Music of the Sun with the single Pon de Replay

Rihanna Biography

Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter and model. She is the second artist, and first female, from Barbados to have received a Grammy Award (the first being Jimmy Senya Haynes). Rihanna is currently signed to the Def Jam Recordings label. Since the release of her debut album Music of the Sun in 2005, Rihanna has amassed ten Top 40 hit singles on the US.

Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, to Ronald Fenty of Barbados (of African and Irish ancestry) and Monica Fenty, who is of Guyanese descent. She has two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. Rihanna went to Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then on to the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates. In 2004, she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant and performed in the Colours of Combermere School Show. At the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. Rogers, along with his partner, Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. which was sent to various recording companies. One copy of Rihanna's work was sent to Jay-Z, who eventually signed her to Def Jam Recordings. Rihanna cites Brandy, Beyoncé Knowles, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Bob Marley and her Caribbean background as major musical influences. Rihanna also stated in an interview that her friend and former Island Def Jam record label artist Fefe Dobson was someone that she admired and looked up to, having a fellow artist writing, singing, and performing the music she truly loves.