Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a Bajan entertainer who uses her middle name as her stage name and is primarily known for pop music with islander, R&B, and rock influences in that order. Her global music career began with the release of her 2005 single Pon de Replay.

Her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) and its leading single Umbrella were major breakthroughs in her career that began her path into becoming significantly more widely known and marked her transformation into an increasingly more controversial figure. Since then her music and entertainment career has gradually become more adult in nature and an assault by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown is well known, in addition to the continuing on-again off-again nature of her relationship with him that ended in 2013.

Her music and personal life are obsessively covered in tabloids and gossip blogs and her fame is augmented by the significant exposure of her personal life through those media sources as well as her own use of social networking sites. She also maintains the attention of the industry through frequent major album releases, with often less than a year between albums.