Barbadian urban R&B singer who has established herself as one of the biggest pop stars of the New Millennium.
Rihanna established herself big-time in summer 2005 with her debut smash hit, [roviLink="MC"]"Pon de Replay," and continued to demonstrate her smash hit potential in subsequent years (e.g., [roviLink="MC"]"S.O.S.," 2006; [roviLink="MC"]"Umbrella," 2007). By the time of her third album, [roviLink="MW"]Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), she was a full-fledged international pop star with a regular presence atop the charts, from Germany to Japan. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, she always exhibited a special quality, winning beauty and talent contests as a schoolchild. But because she lived on the fairly remote island of Barbados in the West Indies, she never foresaw the sort of stardom that would later befall her. ~ Jason Birchmeier
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