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
from New York who was in Barbados for a vacation with his wife. Rodgers arranged for her to fly out 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 16 when she was signed to Def Jam and since then, she's amassed phenomenal success. She then start making trade marks on Leather outfits, changing hairstyles, Bright red hair, Silky tone of voice, Bajan accent, Revealing outfits, and tattoos. Her musical inspirations include Alicia Keys, Beyoncé Knowles, and Mariah Carey. She was named "Sexiest Woman" for 2011 by Esquire magazine, exact date, October 12, 2011. Esquire gives the title of "sexiest woman" to a different celebrity each year. While filming a music video for her song "We Found Love" in Ireland, the farmer whose land was borrowed as a setting for the video, asked the crew to stop filming and leave the land after he objected to Rihanna's revealing outfits and state of undress, which he deemed as "inappropriate" 2011. 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 black artist writing, singing, and performing the music she truly loves. The quote was ranked best quote number 8 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list. Sampled "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" by Michael Jackson from his " Thriller" album in her song "Please Don't Stop the Music", ranked number 15 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
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
Perry. Her 3rd single 'Rude Boy', from her 4th studio album 'Rated R', became her sixth U.S. number one single. This makes her the most successful female artist of the last 10 years. She and then-boyfriend Chris Brown canceled their performance at the Grammys in February 2009 just hours before the show started after Brown was caught up in a late-night domestic dispute, which later turned out to be a physical attack on Rihanna.
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
to have three top ten songs at once on the 'UK Official Chart'. She also became the first female artist; in the history of the chart, to have a number one in five consecutive years. She has Seven number one singles in Australia as of February 2011, making her the only non Australian artist to do so in the last 20 years. Her 5th studio album 'Loud', sold 2.8 million copies worldwide in 3 months. The album also marks the launch of her business "Rihanna Entertainment" February 2011. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade. Is worth an estimated $143 million Forbes February 2011. Her controversial music video for "S&M", was banned in 11 countries within a day of its release. This is Rihanna's second video to cause controversy as "Te Amo" was banned in many countries due to its same-sex nature. As of March 1st, she's reached over 1.2 billion YouTube views on her official Vevo page. Q Magazine named her one of the top 100 acts of the last century, November 2009, then became the youngest black female to grace the cover of American – Vogue, March 2011. The song S&M featuring Britney Spears become her 10th No. 1 song on Billboard Hot 100. At the 2011 BET awards, Rihanna was mistakenly announced as the winner of the Viewer's Choice Award. The actual winner was her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who later received the award.