Rihanna

Rihanna is one of those rare artists who somehow keeps raising the stakes on herself — eight studio albums, a stack of Grammy wins, and over 250 million records sold, yet the music almost feels like the footnote now. The girl from Barbados who landed in Jay-Z's orbit at sixteen and parlayed "Pon de Replay" into a global career is impressive enough, but what really gets me is the pivot: she built Fenty Beauty into a billion-dollar brand by actually solving a real problem (forty shades of foundation), then turned Savage X Fenty into a runway spectacle that embarrassed legacy lingerie brands. Then she headlined the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show — while visibly pregnant — and made it look effortless. She hasn't dropped an album since Anti in 2016 and honestly? She doesn't need to. She's already playing a different game entirely.

Name (English)

Rihanna

Name (Japanese)

リアーナ

Reading

りあーな

Born

February 20, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Saint Michael, Barbados

Occupation

singer / businessperson / actor / pop singer / musician

Awards & achievements

• 2008 Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance
• 2013 Icon Award
• 2014 Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album
• 2017 Humanitarian of the Year
• 2011 Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording
• 2010 Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance
• 2010 Grammy Award for Best Rap Song
• 2012 Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.rihanna.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/badgalriri/
• Xhttps://x.com/rihanna
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A

Tags

• singer
• businessperson
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.