Rihanna Research Paper
Top Female Artist “Rihanna” | November 11
2011
| An inside look on where Rihanna started, how she became who she is, and a show of her motivation. | R&B and Hip Hop |
Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988 in Barbados, St. Michael. Birth name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty Born to a black Barbadian father Ronald Fenty and a black mixed mother Monica Fenty. She has two younger brothers Rorrey and Rajad. She lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top class school. Rihanna won numerous beauty pageants and performed "Hero" in a school talent show, then was given high quality nicknames like, RiRi, Caribbean Queen, and The Barbados Babe. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers, a producer …show more content…
Rihanna is ranked number 43 in the 2010 F.H.M. U.K. list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World”, according to fashion lifestyle she's had over 150 hairstyles since her music career took off in 2005. Her trademarks are her long straight brown hair, in 2006, medium length black bob, in 2007 and short cropped look, in 2008. An estimated $15,000,000 of Forbes Magazine was tagged "The Digital Download Queen" due to her songs being downloaded over 75,000,000 times combined in 2008. Her 3rd studio album Good Girl Gone Bad went out in 2007. It was the 3rd highest selling album in the world in 2007 and was the 8th highest 2008. It has sold just fewer than 8 million copies worldwide and has spawned 3 number one Hot 100 hits and 2 worldwide number ones. Rihanna appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue for there "Extreme Couture" edition in September 2009. Her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, was sentenced to five years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling as a result of his attack on her in February, August 29, 2009. She is also good friends with Katy …show more content…
She's the highest paid female celebrity to sit front row at fashion shows. She's paid an estimated $100,000, followed by Beyoncé Knowles, who is estimated at $80,000. She is a big fan of Depeche Mode, The Prodigy and Chase & Status. She worked with Chase & Status on her album "Rated R" after calling member Saul Milton up at 3 AM. Selling 62 million records since 2005, she's the most successful artist over the last decade. She also is the first ever artist ever to have 5, 3 time multi - platinum selling digital singles, then broke her own record by scoring her 7th U.S. number one. "Love The Way You Lie" with Eminem became her 7th number one single in 5 years. This gives her the most number ones from an artist in the last 10 years. She has attained nine number one Hot 100 singles. Three of them were achieved in 2010. She became the only female in American history to have her first single to go number one after the second, February 2011. In the UK, she became the only female; and the only artist in 52 years
2011
| An inside look on where Rihanna started, how she became who she is, and a show of her motivation. | R&B and Hip Hop |
Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988 in Barbados, St. Michael. Birth name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty Born to a black Barbadian father Ronald Fenty and a black mixed mother Monica Fenty. She has two younger brothers Rorrey and Rajad. She lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top class school. Rihanna won numerous beauty pageants and performed "Hero" in a school talent show, then was given high quality nicknames like, RiRi, Caribbean Queen, and The Barbados Babe. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers, a producer …show more content…
Rihanna is ranked number 43 in the 2010 F.H.M. U.K. list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World”, according to fashion lifestyle she's had over 150 hairstyles since her music career took off in 2005. Her trademarks are her long straight brown hair, in 2006, medium length black bob, in 2007 and short cropped look, in 2008. An estimated $15,000,000 of Forbes Magazine was tagged "The Digital Download Queen" due to her songs being downloaded over 75,000,000 times combined in 2008. Her 3rd studio album Good Girl Gone Bad went out in 2007. It was the 3rd highest selling album in the world in 2007 and was the 8th highest 2008. It has sold just fewer than 8 million copies worldwide and has spawned 3 number one Hot 100 hits and 2 worldwide number ones. Rihanna appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue for there "Extreme Couture" edition in September 2009. Her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, was sentenced to five years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling as a result of his attack on her in February, August 29, 2009. She is also good friends with Katy …show more content…
She's the highest paid female celebrity to sit front row at fashion shows. She's paid an estimated $100,000, followed by Beyoncé Knowles, who is estimated at $80,000. She is a big fan of Depeche Mode, The Prodigy and Chase & Status. She worked with Chase & Status on her album "Rated R" after calling member Saul Milton up at 3 AM. Selling 62 million records since 2005, she's the most successful artist over the last decade. She also is the first ever artist ever to have 5, 3 time multi - platinum selling digital singles, then broke her own record by scoring her 7th U.S. number one. "Love The Way You Lie" with Eminem became her 7th number one single in 5 years. This gives her the most number ones from an artist in the last 10 years. She has attained nine number one Hot 100 singles. Three of them were achieved in 2010. She became the only female in American history to have her first single to go number one after the second, February 2011. In the UK, she became the only female; and the only artist in 52 years