Rihanna ( ; born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20 1988) is a Barbadian singer. She is the first female and the second known person from Barbados to have received a Grammy award. (The first being Jimmy Senya Haynes). Currently Rihanna is signed to the Def Jam Records label.

Rihanna was born February 20, 1988, on the Caribbean island of Barbados, as Robyn Rihanna Fenty. She went to Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then on to the Combermere Secondary School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates. In 2004, she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant and performed in the Colours of Combermere School Show, singing Mariah Carey’s ‘Hero’. At the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends