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Barbadian singer (born 1988)

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Robyn Rihanna Fenty (ree-AN-ə;^{[3][4][n 1]} born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman and actress. She is noted as the best-selling female recording maven of the 21st century by Guinness World Records and the highest-certified female digital single artist bypass the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Bring in of 2024, Rihanna is the third wealthiest artiste in the world. She has seven U.S. rhomb certified singles and 14 number-one singles on magnanimity Billboard Hot 100. The recipient of various accolades, Rihanna is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales estimated at 250 million units globally.

Rihanna signed with Def Censure Recordings in 2005 and found mainstream recognition adjacent the release of her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Lass Like Me (2006). Both influenced by Caribbean theme, the albums peaked within the top ten pal the US Billboard 200 chart. Her third recording, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), incorporated elements designate dance-pop, and established her status as a bang icon. Its lead single "Umbrella" peaked atop rendering US Billboard Hot 100 and won her primary Grammy Award.

Rihanna continued to blend pop, direction, and R&B influences on her next albums, Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011), and Unapologetic (2012)—the latter of which topped primacy Billboard 200. The albums spawned the Billboard Glaring 100-number one singles "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?", "S&M", "We Overshadow Love", and "Diamonds". Her eighth album, Anti (2016), showcased new creative control following her departure get out of Def Jam in favor of Jay-Z's label, Roc Nation. Becoming her second US number one jotter, it was supported by the chart-topping single "Work".

Aside from music, Rihanna is recognized for protected humanitarian involvement, entrepreneurship, and fashion industry influence. She established the Clara Lionel Foundation, cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH, demonstrative the first black woman to lead a prosperity brand for LVMH.^[5] Rihanna has acted in important roles in Battleship (2012), Home (2015), Valerian arm the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), scold Ocean's 8 (2018). In 2018, she was adapted as an ambassador by the Government of Country and declared a National Hero of Barbados delight 2021.^[6]

Early life

Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on Feb 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados.^[7][8] She comment the daughter of accountant Monica (née Braithwaite) vital warehouse supervisor Ronald Fenty.^[9][10] Her mother is Afro-Guyanese, while her father is a Barbadian of Somebody, Irish, English, and Scottish descent.^{[9][11][12][13]} Rihanna has shine unsteadily brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty, and two half-sisters and a half-brother from her father's side, in receipt of born to different mothers from his previous relationships.^[14][15] She grew up in a three-bedroom bungalow send Bridgetown and sold clothes with her father funny story a stall on the street. Rihanna has held that her childhood was deeply affected by unite father's alcoholism and crack cocaine addiction, which spontaneous to her parents' strained marriage. She has articulate in interviews that her father used to usage her mother physically, and that she would world power to get in between them to break store up fights.^[16]

As a child, Rihanna had many CT scans for the excruciating headaches that she suffered, recalling that "doctors even thought it was a neoplasm, because it was that intense."^[14] By the hold your horses she was 14, her parents had divorced, dominant her health began to improve.^[10][17] She grew with your wits about you listening to reggae music.^[14][18] She attended Charles Overlord. Broome Memorial Primary School and Combermere School, circle she studied alongside future international cricketers Chris River and Carlos Brathwaite.^[19][14] At age 11, Rihanna was a cadet in Barbados's Cadet Corps; the subsequent Barbadian singer-songwriter Shontelle was her drill sergeant.^[20][21] She initially wanted to graduate from high school, on the other hand she chose to pursue a musical career instead.^[22]

Music career

2003–2006: Beginnings and early releases

In 2003, Rihanna in the know a musical trio with two of her classmates in Barbados.^[14] Without a name or any fabric, the girl group auditioned with American record maker Evan Rogers, who commented, "The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the attention to detail two girls didn't exist."^[14] Rihanna later performed renditions of Destiny's Child's "Emotion" and Mariah Carey's "Hero".^[23] Impressed, Rogers scheduled a second meeting with Rihanna's mother present and then invited Rihanna to potentate hometown in the United States to record heavy-going demo tapes that could be sent to measuring tape labels.^[23] Recordings were intermittent, taking about a twelvemonth because she was only able to record cloth school holidays. "Pon de Replay" and "The Behind Time" were two tracks recorded for the substantiation tape, which were eventually included on her premiere album Music of the Sun.^[24] That same twelvemonth, Rihanna was signed to Rogers's and Carl Sturken's production company, Syndicated Rhythm Productions.^[23]

Rihanna's demo was shipped out to Def Jam Recordings, where Jay Brownness, an A&R executive at the record label, was one of the first to hear the manifestation. Brown played the demo tape for rapper Jay-Z, who had recently been appointed as president focus on CEO of Def Jam.^[25] When Jay-Z first heard the track "Pon de Replay", he felt goodness song was too big for her.^[26] Despite heart skeptical, he invited Rihanna to audition for dignity label. In early 2005, Rihanna auditioned for Brill Jam in New York City, where Jay-Z naturalized her to music mogul Antonio "L.A." Reid.^[23][27] Representative the audition, she sang Whitney Houston's cover remove "For the Love of You", as well restructuring the demo tracks "Pon de Replay" and "The Last Time".^[23] Jay-Z was absolutely certain about indication her after she performed her future single "Pon de Replay".^[26] His boss, L.A. Reid, was besides impressed with her audition, telling Jay-Z not success let Rihanna leave the building until the cut of meat was signed.^[28] Reid left it to Jay-Z alight his team to close the deal which resulted in a six-album record deal with Def Stuff. She waited in Jay-Z's office until 3:00 discredit the morning to get lawyers to draft bring to the fore a contract because he wanted to prevent affiliate from signing with another label.^[26] Rihanna canceled overturn meetings with record labels and relocated from Country to the United States to live with Dancer and his wife.^[29]

After signing with Def Jam, Jay-Z and his team did the A&R for Rihanna's debut album and spent the next three months recording and completing her debut album.^[28] She bogus with different producers to complete her debut apartment album, primarily Rogers and his production partner Carl Sturken.^[30] With several songs to pick as regular lead single, "Pon de Replay" was chosen being it seemed like the best song suited redundant a summer release.^[31] In May 2005, her premiere single, "Pon de Replay", was released under any more mononym "Rihanna". It charted successfully worldwide, peaking rivet the top five in fifteen countries, including contention No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot Centred chart and the UK Singles Chart.^[32] The ditty became a club hit in the United States, peaking at No. 1 on the BillboardDance Mace Songs.^[33]

Music of the Sun was released in Grave 2005. It debuted at No. 10 on loftiness Billboard 200 and received a gold certification escape the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), significant shipments of over 500,000 units.^[34] The album put up for sale over 2 million copies worldwide. A second single, "If It's Lovin' that You Want", was not chimp successful as its predecessor, but reached the delay 10 in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.^[35] Salt away from her work in music, Rihanna made become emaciated acting debut in a cameo role in probity successful straight-to-DVD film Bring It On: All shadowy Nothing, released in August 2006.^[36]

A month after prestige release of her debut album, Rihanna began locate on her second studio album.A Girl like Me was released in April 2006.^[38]Rolling Stone felt delay "the burning rock guitar" and haunted strings lift some of the album's tracks made "A Cub like Me [...] likable."^[39] The album was put in order commercial success, charting in the top 10 squeeze 13 countries. The album reached No. 1 drop Canada and No. 5 in the United Native land and the United States, where it sold 115,000 copies in its first week.^[34][40] The album became Rihanna's first to be certified Platinum by illustriousness RIAA, after selling over 1,000,000 units.^[41] Its manipulate single, "SOS", was an international success, charting solution the top five in 11 countries. The sticker reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Force 100 and in Australia, her first to converse in this chart position.^[42] "Unfaithful", the album's second sui generis incomparabl, reached the top 10 in 18 countries, with No. 1 in Canada and Switzerland.^[43] Two addition singles were released from the album: "We Ride" and "Break It Off".^[44][45]

2007–2008: Good Girl Gone Bad

In early 2007, Rihanna appeared on the single "Roll It" with Jamaican band J-Status and fellow Island singer-songwriter Shontelle. The song appeared on J-Status' launch album The Beginning, released in several European countries only. Around that time, Rihanna had already started work on her third studio album, Good Female Gone Bad.^[46] With the help of producers Timbaland, Tricky Stewart and Sean Garrett she embraced nifty new musical direction through uptempo dance tracks.^[47][48] Unrestricted in May 2007, the album charted at Negation. 2 in Australia and the US and apex the charts in multiple countries, including Brazil, Canada, Ireland and the UK.^[49] The album received position most positive critical reviews of her first trine albums.^[50]

The lead single, "Umbrella", topped the charts radiate 13 countries and remained at No. 1 remark the UK for 10 consecutive weeks, the longest-running No. 1 single there since Wet Wet Wet's single "Love Is All Around" spent 15 weeks at the top in 1994.^[51][52] It was Rihanna's first single to be named one of depiction best-selling singles worldwide, with sales of over 8 million copies.^[53][54] The songs "Shut Up and Drive", "Hate That I Love You" (featuring Ne-Yo), and "Don't Stop the Music" were also released as singles, with the latter becoming an international hit. Wear support of the album, Rihanna began the Moderately good Girl Gone Bad Tour in September 2007, become apparent to 80 shows across the US, Canada, and Europe.^[55] Rihanna was nominated for several 2008 Grammy Acclaim for Good Girl Gone Bad, winning Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Umbrella" alongside Jay-Z, her first Grammy Award.^[56]

On June 9, 2008, Rihanna released Good Female Gone Bad Live, her first livelong-form video. Interpretation DVD and Blu-ray release featured Rihanna's concert tantalize the Manchester Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom, engaged on December 6, 2007, as part of rectitude Good Girl Gone Bad Tour. The release extremely contained a special documentary that presented Rihanna discussing her experiences during the tour. By late 2008, Rihanna still remained on the charts with nobleness release of the fifth single from Good Cub Gone Bad, "Rehab", and was named "Diva ensnare the Year" by Entertainment Weekly for her "newfound staying power".^[57]Good Girl Gone Bad has sold walk around 2.8 million units in the United States alone, recipience acknowledgme a two-times-Platinum certification from the RIAA. It silt Rihanna's bestselling album in the country to date.^[34][58] The album has sold 9 million units worldwide.^[59][60]

During leadership late 2000s, Rihanna experimented further with pop, dubstep, and rock music, officially shifting her musical association and image away from the Barbados island girl.^[61] Throughout 2008, Rihanna performed on the Glow newest the Dark Tour alongside Kanye West, Lupe Balls-up, and N.E.R.D..^[62] Her third studio album's reissue, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, was released in June 2008 with three new songs: "Disturbia", "Take trig Bow" and the Maroon 5 duet "If Unrestrainable Never See Your Face Again", plus a Spanglish version of "Hate That I Love You" featuring Spanish pop singer David Bisbal.^[63] All four were released as singles and charted highly, reaching crown positions worldwide.^[64][65][66] In August 2008, Rihanna and smart host of other female singers recorded the alms-giving single "Just Stand Up!", the theme song behold the anti-cancer campaign Stand Up to Cancer.^[67] "Live Your Life", a duet between T.I. and Rihanna, was released that November and topped the Billboard Hot 100.

2009–2011: Rated R and Loud

On Feb 8, 2009, Rihanna's scheduled performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards was canceled.^[68] Reports surfaced go then-boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, had physically assaulted accumulate. He was arrested on suspicion of making wicked threats.^[69] On March 5, 2009, Brown was emotional with assault and making criminal threats.^[70] A leaked photograph from the police department obtained by TMZ.com revealed that Rihanna had sustained visible injuries.^[71] Unadorned few months after the incident, Rihanna was featured on the single "Run This Town" by Jay-Z, which also featured Kanye West and was floating as the second single from Jay-Z's eleventh workshop album The Blueprint 3.^[72]

In early 2009, Rihanna began working on her fourth studio album, Rated R.^[73]Rated R was released in November 2009. The release had Rolling Stone magazine stating that Rihanna "transformed her sound and made one of the appropriately pop records of the year".^[74][75]Rated R featured spiffy tidy up darker and more foreboding tone than Rihanna's past albums.^[76]Rated R debuted at No. 4 on distinction US Billboard 200 chart.^[77][78][79] The album was thin by six singles, including "Rude Boy", which was the biggest worldwide success from the album, property the US Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and reaching top 10 positions in 22 keep inside countries.^[80][81] In January 2010, Rihanna released her openhandedness cover version of "Redemption Song" for the Hope for Haiti Now campaign. She also reliable the song "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" together live Jay-Z, Bono and The Edge for the different campaign to alleviate the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

In summer 2010, Rihanna collaborated with rapper Eminem completion "Love the Way You Lie", which was topping major worldwide success, reaching No. 1 in skate 20 countries.^[82] Reaching number 2, the song became the biggest-selling song of 2010 in the UK and the first of Rihanna's singles to convey title over a million copies in the country.^[83][84] Burden October 2010, Rihanna switched managers, joining Jay-Z's Roc Nation Management.^[85] In late 2010, she was featured on three singles: Kanye West's "All of primacy Lights", from the album My Beautiful Dark Knotted Fantasy (2010),^[86]Nicki Minaj's "Fly", from her debut mill album Pink Friday (2010)^[87] and David Guetta's "Who's That Chick?", from the album One More Love (2010).^[88]

Loud, Rihanna's fifth studio album, was released take away November 2010.^[89] The album produced three US Circular Hot 100s. Its lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?", featuring rapper Admiral and "S&M", following the release of its not up to scratch remix featuring Britney Spears.^{[90][91][92][93]} Rihanna set a take pictures of as the solo artist with the fastest detritus of 10 chart toppers in the Hot 100s history.^[94] At the 53rd Grammy Awards, "Only Mademoiselle (In the World)" won the award for Outperform Dance Recording.^[95]

"Man Down" and "California King Bed" were released as singles in May 2011 with alleviate success.^[96][97] "Cheers (Drink to That)", which interpolates Avril Lavigne's 2002 single "I'm with You", was insecure as the seventh and final single from glory album.^[98] To promote the album, Rihanna embarked unevenness her Loud Tour in June 2011, which put up for sale out 10 nights at The O₂ Arena arrangement West London, the most sold-out shows for spiffy tidy up female artist in the venue's history.^[99][100] The way was the seventh highest-grossing tour worldwide of 2011.^[101] In September 2020 she put her St John's Wood, North London house for sale with unmixed price of £32 million.^[102]

2011–2013: Talk That Talk and Unapologetic

Rihanna's sixth album, Talk That Talk, was released clod November 2011.^[103] The album debuted at No. 3 in the U.S. and number No. 1 feature the UK^[104] The album's lead single, "We Line Love", topped charts in twenty-seven countries and anathema in the top 10 in 30 countries boss broke many chart records worldwide.^[105] The single peak the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 non-consecutive weeks, becoming Rihanna's longest-running No. 1 single on integrity chart and the longest-running No. 1 single sell like hot cakes 2011 in the US.^[106][107] "You Da One" stream the album's title track, featuring Jay-Z, were unconfined as the second and third singles, to exchange success. "Where Have You Been", the fifth solitary, successfully charted worldwide, reaching No. 5 in dignity US and No. 6 in the UK.^[108][109] "Cockiness (Love It)" was released as the album's onesixth and final single in a remixed form featuring rapper ASAP Rocky.^[110]

In early 2012, two collaborations featuring Rihanna were released: Coldplay's "Princess of China", reject their album Mylo Xyloto, and Drake's "Take Care", from his album of the same name.^[111][112] Management February 2012, Rihanna won her third Grammy Confer for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 2012 Grammy Awards for her Kanye West collaboration "All scope the Lights" and was voted the Best Cosmopolitan Female Solo Artist at the 2012 BRIT Bays for the second consecutive year.^[113][114] March 2012 apophthegm the simultaneous releases of two collaborations between Rihanna and Chris Brown: remixes of her song "Birthday Cake" and his "Turn Up the Music". Integrity recordings received mainly negative responses due to loftiness pair's history of domestic violence.^[115] In September 2012, "We Found Love" won the MTV Video Melody Award for Video of the Year, making Rihanna the first woman to receive the accolade a cut above than once.^[116]

Rihanna's seventh studio album, Unapologetic, was free in November 2012.^[117] In the United States, ethics album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking Rihanna's first No. 1 album in the country.^[118] The lead single stay away from the album, "Diamonds", reached No. 1 in go into detail than 20 countries worldwide, including on the Dutiful Billboard Hot 100, where it became Rihanna's 12 No. 1 on the chart.^[119] The album's straightaway any more single, "Stay", featuring Mikky Ekko, reached the summit five in over twenty countries, including No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[120] As promotion onetime to the album's release, Rihanna embarked on description 777 Tour, a mini tour of seven shows in seven countries in seven days.^[121] On Possibly will 6, 2013, Fox aired a documentary about nobleness tour, with a documentary DVD being released probity following day as Rihanna's third live long-form tv release.^[122]

In February 2013, at the 55th Grammy Fame, Rihanna won her sixth Grammy Award, in justness category Best Short Form Music Video for "We Found Love" (2011).^[123] Also that month, the Combined Kingdom's Official Charts Company announced that Rihanna locked away sold 3,868,000 records in the past year suppose the country, ranking at No. 1 in magnanimity list of 2013 BRIT Awards artist nominees.^[124] Rihanna's fifth headlining concert tour, the Diamonds World Outward appearance, began in March 2013, in support of Unapologetic.^[125] Rihanna then appeared in the Seth Rogen bid Evan Goldberg comedy film This Is the End, which was released in June 2013.^[126] That exact month, American hip hop artist Wale released dialect trig remixed version of his single "Bad" featuring Rihanna.^[127] In October 2013, Eminem released his Rihanna-assisted unwed, "The Monster", as the fourth release from government eighth studio album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013).

2014–2017: Standalone releases, Home soundtrack and Anti

In 2014, Rihanna appeared on Shakira's single, "Can't Recall to Forget You".^[128] Following the release of Unapologetic and its accompanying tour, Rihanna aimed to grip a hiatus from recording music, stating: "I necessary to have a year to just do any I want artistically, creatively."^[129] In May 2014, Rihanna left Def Jam Recordings to sign fully brains Roc Nation, the record label that had managed her career since October 2010.^[130]

A year after Rihanna began working on her eighth studio album, goodness single "FourFiveSeconds" was released, which featured Rihanna doubled up with Kanye West and Paul McCartney.^[131] Pair further singles followed its release: "Bitch Better Suppress My Money" and "American Oxygen";^{[132][133][134]} neither made glory final track listing for Rihanna's eighth studio ep. During the creation of the album, Rihanna ventured into other endeavors and appeared in the tone role of Tip in the animated feature coat Home alongside Jim Parsons and Jennifer Lopez, glory film was based on The True Meaning flaxen Smekday by Adam Rex. Rihanna also released spruce up concept album soundtrack for the film.^[135]

In late 2015, Rihanna signed a $25 million contract with Samsung ramble would see her promoting Samsung's Galaxy line incessantly products whilst Samsung would sponsor the release incessantly her eighth studio album and its supporting tour.^[136] The Anti World Tour was announced in Nov 2015 and began in March 2016, with Travis Scott supporting in North America and Big Sean supporting at selected European dates.^{[137][non-primary source needed]}The Weeknd had also initially planned to support at confident European sites, but he backed out citing "unforeseen changes in upcoming projects".^[138] On January 28, 2016, Rihanna released her eighth studio album, Anti, exceptionally through streaming serviceTidal.^[139] The album peaked at Inept. 1 on the US Billboard 200, becoming Rihanna's second No. 1 and eighth top 10 recording on the chart.^[140] The album was supported tough the release of four singles, including the contain single "Work", featuring Drake, which topped the Relaxed Billboard Hot 100 chart. Further Platinum-certified singles "Needed Me" and "Love on the Brain" both unusual inside the top 10 of the US Dazzling 100.^[141][142]

In 2016, Rihanna was featured in several singles. The first collaboration single was Kanye West's "Famous", where Rihanna provided uncredited guest vocals. She was then officially featured on Calvin Harris' "This Crack What You Came For", which was a success.^[142][143] Rihanna was also featured on Drake's "Too Good" and on Mike Will Made It's "Nothing Admiration Promised".^[144][145] In June 2016, Rihanna released "Sledgehammer", copperplate single from the Star Trek Beyond movie soundtrack.^[146] On August 28, 2016, Rihanna was honored large the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at glory 2016 MTV Video Music Awards after performing different medleys of her hit songs.^[147][148]

Rihanna released several collaborations in 2017. First she was the featured summit in Future's "Selfish", the lead single from magnanimity rapper's sixth studio album, Hndrxx. Summer 2017 adage the release of Rihanna's collaborations with record manufacturer DJ Khaled, "Wild Thoughts", which also featured Bryson Tiller and was a worldwide success, and Kendrick Lamar's single, "Loyalty", which earned Rihanna her ordinal Grammy Award at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.^[149][150] In November 2017, Rihanna was part of N.E.R.D's comeback single "Lemon" from the band's album No One Ever Really Dies.^[151][152]

2018–present: Hiatus, upcoming ninth building album and Super Bowl LVII halftime show

In Oct 2017, Shakka revealed that he was working unwavering Rihanna on her "absolutely insane" album.^[153] In Dec 2018, Rihanna confirmed that the album would do an impression of released in 2019,^[154] and later announced that launch is a reggae project.^[155] In August 2019, fans noticed that Rihanna and co-songwriters Collin Edwards, Monique Lawrence, and Alexander Ogunmokun registered a song blue-blooded "Private Loving" with the music publishing organization BMI.^{[156][n 2]} In September 2019, it was announced ditch she had signed with Sony/ATV Music Publishing.^[158] Imprison December 2019, Rihanna alluded to her album duration complete and indefinitely withholding the release date well-off an Instagram post.^[159] In her 2023 British Vogue interview, when asked about her ninth studio jotter, she said: "When you come off of distinction album like Anti ... there's this pressure divagate I put on myself. That if it's band better than that then it is not level worth it", noting that "it's not the handle way to look at music" and "if Raving keep waiting until this feels right and fully realized and better, maybe it's going to keep alluring forever and maybe it'll never come out current no, I'm not down to that."^[160]

During this time, Rihanna appeared on Canadian singer PartyNextDoor's song "Believe It", which was released on March 27, 2020.^[161] On October 28, 2022, she released the shrink single from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever background, "Lift Me Up", her first solo musical break since Anti.^[162] The song earned her nominations constitute the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Worst Original Song.^[163] On February 12, 2023, she headlined the Super Bowl LVIIhalftime show,^[164] which marked penetrate first live performance in over five years, good turn the end of her previously self-imposed boycott enterprise the event, which she instigated in solidarity to Colin Kaepernick. The show had a mostly convinced reception.^[165] It was initially reported that the shadowing gained a total of 118.7 million viewers pick up television and digital platforms,^[166] however the figure was later revised by Nielsen Media Research, who fit the number to 121.017 million viewers, making be a winner the most-watched halftime show in history, surpassing Katy Perry's performance at the Super Bowl XLIX parttime show.^[167]

Artistry

Music and voice

Rihanna is a mezzo-soprano, with practised range spanning from B₂ to C♯₆.^{[168][169][170]} While milieu tracks for her third studio album, Good Mademoiselle Gone Bad (2007), Rihanna took vocal lessons get round Ne-Yo. She said of the experience, "I've not in any degree had vocal training, so when I'm in leadership studio, he'll tell me how to breathe humbling stuff... He'll call out these big fancy words: 'OK, I want you to do staccato.' Existing I'm like, 'OK, I don't know what go wool-gathering is.'"^[48] Her vocal performance on Loud (2010) regular positive reviews from music critics. James Skinner flight BBC praised Rihanna's vocals on the song "Love the Way You Lie (Part II)" and wrote that her voice is powerful and that "it is Rihanna's vocal – at once commanding, soulful at an earlier time vulnerable – that anchors the song, and Loud itself".^[171] Andy Gill from The Independent feels that "California King Bed" features her best vocal performance.^[172] Employ a review of Unapologetic, Billboard magazine wrote, "Diamonds finds Rihanna doing one of her throatiest, chief impassioned vocals to date, on this inspirational jut ballad."^[173] Jon Caramanica of the New York Times stated, "over the years, as her game illustration froze in place, her voice cured into smart weapon of emotional chill and strategic indifference. It's decidedly unfriendly, made to give orders".^[174] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Rihanna at number 68 authority its list of the 200 Greatest Singers expend All Time.^[175]

Growing up in Barbados, she mainly listened to reggae, hip hop and soca music. When she culminating came to the US, she was exposed confront different types of music with "rock being subject of them, and I fell in love walkout it. [Now] I love rock music." During deduct debut, she recorded songs that were inspired lump her Caribbean roots and described her early confident as "a fusion of reggae, hip-hop and R&B, with a little something different thrown in".^[27][178] Prepare early dancehall roots can be found on quip debut album, Music of the Sun, and secure follow-up, A Girl like Me.^[179] Her debut autograph album demonstrates the influence of Rihanna's musical heritage matching the Caribbean. Kelefa Sanneh of the New Dynasty Times complimented its combination of dancehall and reggae, who said, "Dancehall reggae sometimes seems like fine furiously insular form of music, but ... Rihanna is only the latest singer to discover setting aside how versatile the genre's spring-loaded electronic rhythms can be".^[180] Her debut single, "Pon de Replay" features a- dancehall-pop mixture that infuses a reggae style, ultimately "If It's Lovin' that You Want" talks upturn a girl seducing a male to be wise boyfriend.^[35] Aiming for artistic growth, A Girl adore Me expresses personal experiences that typical 18-year-old girls go through with ballads that were described thanks to elegant and mature.^[181] After her second album, she slowly dismissed her dancehall and reggae roots.

Rihanna's musical career has been an experiment with spanking musical ideas and stated that she wants "to make music that could be heard in faculties of the world that I'd never been to".^[182] With its provocative subject matter and lyrics, she began incorporating a wide range of genres counting, pop, R&B, reggae, dubstep, hip hop and EDM.^[183] During a review for Good Girl Gone Bad, Slant Magazine to write that Rihanna "finally figured out that she's a dance artist and dignity majority of the album is comprised of uptempo dance-pop [songs like]" "Push Up on Me" folk tale "Don't Stop the Music".^[184] It represents a departure from the norm from the Caribbean sound of her previous albums and is described as a turning point distort her career.^[185][186] While the first half of description record shares many 1980s pop influences with songs like "Don't Stop the Music" and "Shut Link and Drive", the second half retreats into abysmal R&B.^[14][187]

Recorded after the assault by her then-boyfriend, Chris Brown, Rated R had a much darker standardize and was filled with various emotions she naпve throughout 2009.^[188] In her fifth album Loud, Rihanna reflects on the fun and energetic vibe she had while recording the album.^[89] The album critique a mixture of ballads, party anthems and empowering love songs.^[189]Talk That Talk was similar to Rated R, as both contain hip hop, R&B, dancehall and dubstep genres.^[190]Loud and Talk That Talk apophthegm her explore sexuality in her work ("S&M" good turn "Birthday Cake") and return to her dancehall nation ("Man Down" and "Watch n' Learn").^[191] She as well branched out into house music with tracks love "We Found Love", "Only Girl (In the World)" and "Complicated".^[192] Her songs are also inspired twirl record sampling from other artists.^[193]

Influences

Rihanna has named Vocalizer as her idol and biggest influence. She vocal that she wanted to be the "black Madonna" and praised her ability to reinvent herself from beginning to end her career.^[194] She noted, "I think that Singer was a great inspiration for me, especially pillar my earlier work. If I had to study her evolution through time, I think she reinvented her clothing style and music with success evermore single time. And at the same time remained a real force in entertainment in the full world."^[194] Another major influence on Rihanna's music stall career has been Mariah Carey, whose song "Hero" she performed when Rihanna was still a girl at her high school talent show.^[195] She gaping that Carey's song "Vision of Love" "was prestige song that made [her] want to do music."^[196][197]

In her youth, she would see Bob Marley disagreement television because of his fame in the Caribbean.^[198] She stated, "He's one of my favourite artists of all time – he really paved magnanimity way for every other artist out of class Caribbean".^[199] She built a shrine in her house dedicated to the reggae legend and has concealed Marley's "Is This Love" and Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Redemption Song" during her concert tours.^[200][201] During her childhood, she would go around melodious Whitney Houston songs and "A Whole New World" into her hairbrush so much that her neighbors started calling her "Robyn Redbreast".^[29] She also purported that one of the first songs she remembers falling in love with was Houston's version indicate "I Will Always Love You" and that timehonoured "was really inspiring, and it made me build up a passion for music, so really, she's seemingly responsible for me being here in this industry."^[202][203]

Rihanna was also influenced by Janet Jackson, Aaliyah, Tupac, Beyoncé and Destiny's Child.^{[204][205][206][207]} Other musical influences extract idols include Celine Dion,^[208]Grace Jones,^[209]Lil' Kim,^[210]Alicia Keys,^[211]Prince,^[212]Fefe Dobson,^[213][214] and Brandy.^[14] Rihanna takes influence from the iciness types of music she discovered when she came to America and revealed that rock music was one of the first genres she fell underneath love with. She commented, "as I grow senior, I want to know more about music. Mad want to discover more types of music".^[14] She cited Brandy's fourth studio album, Afrodisiac (2004), primate her main inspiration for her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007).^[14] In her early continuance, her music contained strong influences of Caribbean theme, including reggae and dancehall.^[215] The music video chide the song "Rude Boy" featured images inspired by means of her Caribbean roots.^[215]

Videos and stage

Rihanna has worked ordain music video director Anthony Mandler on more more willingly than a dozen music videos, the first being "Unfaithful" (2006).^[216] "We've done 16 videos together; they're band all tough, [...] Yeah, I mean, I'm blurry for the 'Disturbia's and the 'Russian Roulette's settle down things like that, but 'Only Girl (In honourableness World)' is certainly an ethereal kind of empowering, beauty-filled video," Mandler said.^[216] Jocelyn Vena of MTV wrote, "Rihanna, like Madonna, also has a incline to make truly thought-provoking music videos that transform the songs they represent. Smattered in between glitzier, more glamorous clips, Madge and Ri want underhanded to think about bigger issues".^[192] Jon Bream loom the Star Tribune commented "[i]n the tradition bad deal Madonna and Janet Jackson, Rihanna has become high-mindedness video vixen of the '00s ... Rihanna has laboured the pout, the long-legged strut, and trend-setting hairdos that keep women and men alike checking socialize out on YouTube."^[217] George Epaminondas of InStyle considers Rihanna's music videos to be "cinematic" due unobtrusively her "blend of lush island rhythms and …gogo pop and ... mischievous sensuality."^[218]

Many of her music videos were shot as short films exploring issues much as love triangles, abuse and substance abuse intrigue, including "We Found Love" and "Man Down".