~Rihanna~
By:Jazmin
Rihanna's real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty and she was born on February 20,1988.
Rihanna is a barbadian recording artist and actress. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael,  Barbados and she began her career when she met record producer Evan Rogers in the late 2003. At age 16, she came to the United States to pursue a recording career and began recording demo tapes with Roger. She then signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for Jay-Z. Rihanna rose to fame  with the release of her new album “Music of the Sun”. In less than a year, she released her second album “A Girl Like Me”. Rihanna's work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including five American Music Awards, eighteen Billboard Music Awards, two BRIT Awards and five Grammy Awards. She has achieved a total of eleven number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade, and ranked her as the 17th artist of the same decade. She is the highest-selling
digital artist in US history and sold 47,571,000 singles as of 2012. She has also sold 7.3 million album units in the United States as of September 2011. Some of her singles have earned their place on the list of best-selling singles worldwide. Rihanna has sold more than 25 million albums and 60 million digital singles worldwide since the beginning 
of her career in 2005. Rihanna has earned $29 million between May 2010 and May 2011. A lot of people heard of her music such as “SOS, S&M, What’s My Name?,Talk that Talk, Where Have you Been, We Found Love, You Da One, Umbrella, Disturbia, Only Girl in the World, Don't stop the music, Take A Bow, Rude Boy, and her famous hit Diamonds".
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