Rihanna is currently recording in the studio with numerous different producers, including The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, Chase & Status, Stargate, Slash, Justin Timberlake, Ne-Yo and Akon, on her fourth studio album Rated R.^[73][74] HQ Foto On October 8 2009, Rihanna shot the cover for her fourth album with Ellen von Unwerth in Berlin.^[75] The new album will be released November 23, 2009.^[76][77] The album's lead single, "Russian Roulette", was released on October 20, 2009.^[78] Rihanna is set to speak out about the incident between herself and Chris Brown on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer for the very first time on Thursday, November 5, 2009.^[79][80]

Rihanna released her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, in June 2007. Prior to the release of the album, she spent the week of the Grammys writing songs for the album with Ne-Yo.^[35] She adopted a more sexual image while recording the album, eventually dying her hair black and cutting it short. Rihanna worked with Timbaland and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, as well as previous musical collaborators such as Stargate, Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers to re-imagine her album compositions with uptempo dance tracks.^[36] Rihanna commented, "I want to keep people dancing but still rihana wallpapers hq be soulful at the same time [...] You feel different every album, and [at] this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo [songs]."^[35] The album topped the charts in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Russia and Ireland, and peaked at number two in the United States and Australia. Unlike previous work, the album featured a more dance-pop sound instead of the dancehall, reggae and ballad styles. The album received positive reviews by critics, becoming her most critically acclaimed album at that time compared to her previous efforts.^[37] It yielded eight hit singles — all singles reaching the top twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 — including the worldwide number-one hit "Umbrella," featuring Jay-Z. In addition to reaching number one in various countries, "Umbrella" was the number one single in the United Kingdom for ten consecutive weeks,^[38] making it the longest-running number-one single since Wet Wet Wet's single "Love Is All Around" spent fifteen weeks at the top in 1994.^[39] The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007 published by Rolling Stone magazine.^[40] Her other singles, "Shut Up and Drive", "Don't Stop The Music" and "Hate That I Love You" were able to mirror the success of "Umbrella," with "Don't Stop the Music" reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 while peaking at number one in various countries.^[41]

Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados to Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor, and Monica Fenty, an accountant.^[9] rihanna nude pictures Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her father is Barbadian and Irish.^[10] She is the oldest of three siblings; two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.^[11] She began singing at around the age of seven.^[11] Her childhood was deeply affected by her father's addiction to crack cocaine and parent's rocky marriage, which ended when she was fourteen years old.^[9] Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2004 she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant.^[12] She was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.^[13]

Rihanna's musical style has changed during the release of her last three albums. She was originally marketed as a reggae singer since she burst on scene in 2005, with a styles of pop, R&B and dancehall. Her music also include various styles of musical genres, including contemporary R&B, dance-pop, pop rock and the Caribbean music styles of reggae, soca, and dancehall.^[89] With the release of her debut album Music of the Sun and its lead single "Pon de Replay", Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic described Rihanna's musical style as "synthesize Caribbean rhythms and beats with standard-issue urban dance-pop: Caribbean-inflected urban, if you will."^[90] Rihanna is also described as utilizing "dancehall-lite beats and a reggae vocal cadence."^[90] NME describes the singer as a "heady mix of dancehall, reggae and contemporary R&B."^[91] During the release of her sophomore album, many critics felt that Rihanna's sound and substance was too heavily similar to that of Beyoncé's.^[92][93][94] The media even made negative reviews comparing her music,^[95] music videos, performances^[96][97] and even her image to Beyoncé,^[98] which garnered Rihanna much criticism.^[99] Some media even unfairly claimed that Jay-Z fashioned her to be a replica of Beyoncé.^[97][100] Barry Walters of Rolling Stone considers Rihanna's A Girl Like Me to be "lightweight dancehall and R&B jams."^[101] After the release of Good Girl Gone Bad, Allmusic's Andy Kellman credits Rihanna to be "as pop as pop gets."^[102] Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times described Deneuve her hit "Umbrella" as a lightweight pop confection with a heavy hip-hop backbeat, a breezy love song enriched by those unexpectedly goth-sounding keyboards and by the incongruous hint of anguish in Rihanna’s girlish voice.^[103]

Volume 65 of the Contemporary Black Biography book series notes that "Rihanna is the rare rhythm and blues (R&B) diva to emerge from the Caribbean world."^[81] Becoming an international sensation, Rihanna is known for blending R&B with Caribbean music, such as reggae and dancehall.^[82] Peter Coulter of the Antrim Times, commented that "[Rihanna] has an amazing voice which showed during her acoustic set, she just needs to work on her audience engagement during live shows."^[83] At the time of her debut, reviewers referred to her as a "bubblegum queen"^[84] and her music to "teen pop."^[85] Larry Meyler of The Sun stated that Rihanna going bad is very good and that she had shook off any 'teen pop' image as she rocked the stage.^[85] rihanna fenty gallery While performing at the Ottawa Bluesfest in 2006, Denis Armstrong of Canadian Online Explorer commented on her performance saying "her show was a Disney-esque choreographed fantasy of non-stop hip-swivelling, sassy attitude and personal endearments and a string of funky, sugar-free hits."^[84] After revealing a new image while headlining her first tour, she was likely to be criticize for her tight leather outfit during each show.^[86] A review in the The Times compared Rihanna's stage wardrobe styling to that of Janet Jackson. He also described her outfit as "a vision of Ann Summers couture in thigh-high boots and a few scraps of black PVC."^[87] However, Stuart Derdeyn of The Province commented that "even with the whole haute couture B&D clearly firing on all points, she's still got a ways to go to become the new Janet Jackson."^[88]

With the re-issue of her third album, titled Good rhiana nue Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, which was released in June 2008. Rihanna released the first singles from the re-release "Take a Bow"^[42] — which became a worldwide number-one hit — the duet with Maroon 5, "If I Never See Your Face Again,"^[43] and the other US number-one hit "Disturbia."^[44] "Disturbia" reached to number four before reaching number one, as her previous single, "Take a Bow", was at number two, making Rihanna the seventh female singer to have two songs in the top five. Meanwhile, Rihanna was featured on rapper T.I.'s "Live Your Life," which peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Rihanna her fifth number-one single on the Hot 100 thus far ("SOS," "Umbrella," "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia," as well as T.I.'s "Live Your Life").^[45] This made Rihanna one of the two female solo artist with the most number-one singles this decade, with the other being Beyoncé Knowles.^[46] Good Girl Gone Bad has shipped over two million units in the United States, receiving a two-time platinum certification from RIAA; this gave Rihanna her best-selling album, to date.^[20] She was nominated in four categories at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, winning Monster Single of the Year and Video of the Year.^[47] At the 2008 Grammy Awards, Rihanna earned her first Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration,^[48] in addition to receiving five other nominations, including Record of the Year, Best Dance Recording, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group and Best R&B Song. In support of the album, she embarked on her first headlining tour The Good Girl Gone Bad Tour on September 12, 2007, with several shows across the United States, Canada and Europe^[49] and then embarked on the Glow in the Dark Tour with Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and N.E.R.D on April 16, 2008.^[50][51][52] Rihanna also won Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist at the 2008 American Music Awards.^[53]

Robyn Rihanna Fenty bikini photos of rihanna (born February 20, 1988), better known as Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist and model. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers. She subsequently signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for then-label head Jay-Z.^[1]

A month after the release of her debut album, she began working on her second studio album.^[24] The album contained production from record producers Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken who produced most of her debut album, Stargate, J. R. Rotem and label-mate singer-songwriter Ne-Yo.^[25] While recording the album, Rihanna served as an opening act for Gwen Stefani to promote her debut album.^[26] The lead single, "SOS", peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first number-one in the United States.^[17] A Girl Like Me was released in April 2006,^[27] less than eight months later of her debut. The album reached number five on the Billboard 200^[19] selling 115,000 copies in its first week and has been certified platinum by the RIAA, having shipped over one million units.^[20][28] Internationally, the album peaked at number one on the Top Canadian Albums, five on the UK Albums Chart and number five on the Irish Album Chart. The critical response to the album was mixed; Rolling Stone magazine commented "Like her filler-packed debut album, this similar but superior follow-up doesn't deliver anything else as ingenious as its lead single."^[29] Critics also described the album as a record that almost identically alternates between the sunny dancehall/dub-pop, hip-hop-infused club bangers and gushy, adult-oriented ballads.^[30] The second single, "Unfaithful", became a major worldwide hit, reaching the top ten in dozen countries around the world, including the United States where it reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as topping the charts in Canada, France and Switzerland. The albums third single, "We Ride"^[31] failed to reprise the success of the lead single but the fourth single, "Break It Off" featuring Sean Paul, jumped from number fifty-two to number ten eventually peaking at number nine.^[32][33] After the release of the album, she embarked on the Rock Tha Block Tour and then toured with Pussycat Dolls from November 2006 to February 2007 in the United Kingdom.^[34]

After signing with Def Jam, she spent the next three months recording and completing her debut album.^[1] The album featured production from Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Stargate and Poke & Tone.^[16] She first collaborated with rapper Memphis Bleek on his fourth studio album 534 before her debut. She released her debut single, "Pon de Replay", on August 22, 2005, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.^[17] It also became a global hit where it peaked within the top ten across fifteen countries. Her debut album, Music of the Sun, was released in August 2005^[18] in the United States. The album reached number ten on the Billboard 200, selling 69,000 copies in its first week.^[19] The album has sold over two millions copies worldwide and is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting shipments to US retailers of over 500,000 units.^[20]

At the age of 15, she formed a girl group with two of her classmates.^[11] In 2003 friends introduced Rihanna and her two bandmates to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. The group auditioned for Rogers, who said that "the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist." While auditioning for Rogers, Rihanna sang Destiny's Child's cover of "Emotion".^[11] Over the next year, Rihanna and her mom shuttled back and forth to Rogers home in Stamford, Connecticut. Then, shortly after turning 16, she relocated in the United States and moved in with Rogers and his wife.^[11] Carl Sturken helped Rihanna record a four-song demo,^[14] which included the ballad "Last Time," a cover of Whitney Houston’s hit "For the Love of You"^[11] and what would become her first hit, "Pon de Replay" to send to various recording companies. It took a year to record the demos, because she was going to school and would only record during summer and Christmas school breaks.^[11] Rihanna's demo made its way to Def Jam, which invited her to audition for the label's then-president, Jay-Z, who quickly signed her.^[12][15]