Robyn Rihanna Fenty NH (born February 20, 1988) is a singer, actress, and businesswoman from Barbados.
Rihanna, who was born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, auditioned for American record producer Evan Rogers, who invited her to the US to record demo tapes.
She quickly gained recognition after signing with Def Jam in 2005, with the release of her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006), both of which were influenced by Caribbean music and peaked in the top ten of the US Billboard 200 chart.