She has attained fourteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones thus far and is the second Barbadian artist to win a Grammy Award. She is also a cultural ambassador for Barbados. In 2021 Rihanna was named a "National Hero" in her home country, earning her the title "The Right Excellent."
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados to Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor, and Monica Fenty, an accountant. Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her father is Bajan and Irish. She is the oldest of three siblings; two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. She began singing at around the age of seven. 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. 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. She was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.
At the age of 15, she formed a girl group with two of her classmates. 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". 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. Carl Sturken helped Rihanna record a four-song demo, which included the ballad "The Last Time," a cover of Whitney Houstonβs hit "For the Love of You" 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. 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.
Rihanna broke into the recording industry in 2005 with the release of her debut album Music of the Sun, which features the number 2 hit single "Pon de Replay". Less than a year later, Rihanna released album artist=Rihanna]A Girl Like Me and earned her first number-one single, "SOS, which sampled the popular 80s track "Tainted Love". "Unfaithful" was also released and was fairly successful.
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. 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. Rihanna commented, "I want to keep people dancing but still 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]."
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.
It yielded eight hit singles - "Umbrella" "Shut Up and Drive", "Don't Stop The Music" "Hate That I Love You" "Rehab" "Disturbia" "Take A Bow" "If I Never See Your Face Again" - all singles reaching the top twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 β 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, 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. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007 published by Rolling Stone magazine. In 2008, "Umbrella" earned Rihanna and Jay-Z a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in addition to receiving nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It managed to stay at number one in the United Kingdom for 10 weeks, the longest time spent by a female and in the 21st century, on this chart.
"Umbrella" has also been recognised in various forms of accolades by the music press. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007, published by the music magazine Rolling Stone. Time magazine also listed the song number three on their Top 10 Songs of 2007. The song is listed number one on Entertainment Weekly magazine's list of the 10 Best Singles of 2007, while topping the magazine's poll for the best single of 2007. Blender magazine awarded the song Song of the Year in their Readers' Poll 2007. The music press has considered "Umbrella" as 2007's Song of the Summer, while The New York Times writer Kelefa Sanneh regarded it as "arguably 2007's signature slow jam".
In August 2009, Rihanna collaborated with Jay-Z and Kanye West on "Run This Town." The song peaked at number two on Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top ten in five other countries. She appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia for the September 2009 Issue. The shoot was influenced by Rihanna's hair, which she had cut for the shoot into a mohawk-like style. The style of the shoot was Extreme Couture and very dark, and in one shot she appeared semi-nude. Rihanna performed "Run This Town" along with Jay-Z and West for the "Answer the Call" concert at Madison Square Garden in September 2009, making it her first musical performance since the altercation with Brown. The trio also performed "Run This Town," on the premiere of The Jay Leno Show on September 14, 2009.
In November of 2009, Rated R was released in the wake of a physical altercation with romantic interest Chris Brown, who pled guilty to felony assault. The album's lead single, "Russian Roulette" -- written with Ne-Yo - was one of the year's most controversial singles. The album also includes collaborations with Tricky, The-Dream, Stargate, and SRP.
One year later, Rihanna released her fifth studio album called Loud. It's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", reached number one in more than ten countries. The song also won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.
Talk That Talk was released one year after Loud. With the song "We Found Love", Rihanna became the fastest solo artist in the chart's history to achieve twenty Hot 100 top-ten singles, breaking the previous record set by Madonna. The song later became her eleventh number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. "You Da One" became the second single from the album but was not as successful as "We Found Love". The third single from the album, "Talk That Talk" featuring Jay-Z, was announced on Rihanna's Twitter. The fourth single, "Where Have You Been", peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.
On February 20, 2012, Rihanna and Chris Brown released 2 remixes, one featuring the "Talk That Talk" album track "Birthday Cake" and the other featuring Chris Brown's "Turn Up The Music"
In April 2012, the singer appeared in the movie "Battleship", which is based on the game of the same name.
Rihanna's seventh album Unapologetic was released on November 19, 2012; it was preceded by the lead single Diamonds, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Rihanna's twelfth number one single on the chart and tying her with Madonna and The Supremes for the fourth-most number ones in the chart's history.
On January 28, 2016, Rihanna released her eighth studio album ANTI exclusively through streaming service Tidal. The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming Rihanna's second number one and eighth top ten album on the chart. The album was supported by the release of four singles including the lead single "Work" featuring Drake, which topped the Billboard Hot 100. Further platinum singles "Needed Me" and "Love on the Brain" both peaked inside the top ten of the Hot 100. In 2016, Rihanna was featured on several singles. The first collaboration was Calvin Harris' "This Is What You Came For," which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two in the United Kingdom. Rihanna was also featured on Drake's "Too Good" from his album Views and Mike Will Made It's single, "Nothing Is Promised". On June 27, 2016, Rihanna released "Sledgehammer", the lead single from the Star Trek Beyond soundtrack. On August 28, Rihanna was honored with the MTV Video Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Rihanna was elected artist of the decade of 2010 by Pitchfork, Insider, Lofficiel among other major music magazines.
In October 2022, Rihanna released "Lift Me Up" from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, marking her first solo single since 2016's "Love On The Brain". It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 in the UK. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award, making it Rihanna's first nomination in both awards. On February 12, 2023, she performed at the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, marking her first performance since the 2018 Grammy Awards. Her Halftime show became the second most watched Halftime show of all time with 118.7 million viewers, just after Lady Gagaβs (117.5 million), but behind Katy Perryβs (121 million).
Rihanna-We found love
Rihanna Lyrics
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And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Shine a light through an open door
Love and life I will divide
Turn away 'cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Yellow diamonds in the light
And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
"We Found Love" by Rihanna/Boyce Avenue is a powerful and emotionally charged song that explores the complexity of love and relationships. At the beginning of the song, the lyrics paint a vivid picture of an individual who is struggling to cope with the aftermath of a difficult breakup. The person feels isolated and invisible, as though they are screaming out but no one is around to hear them. The lyrics convey the deep emotional pain someone can feel when they lose someone whom they love dearly, and how it can consume them.
The song speaks to the transformative power of love despite its origins from a hopeless place. The chorus refrain "We found love in a hopeless place" is repeated throughout the song, reminding us of the power of love to uplift and transform even the most unlikely of situations. The diamond metaphor used in the song ("Yellow diamonds in the light") is a symbol of hope and light that shines even in the darkest moments of one's life. Throughout the song, Rihanna/Boyce Avenue's vocals deliver a message of resilience and hope, encouraging listeners to take control of their pain and to allow themselves to heal while holding onto the beautiful memories of the love they had.
The song is a tribute to the transformative nature of love and the way it can heal one's heart despite the hardships of life. The lyrics convey powerful emotions and resonate with anyone who has undergone a difficult breakup, a loss, or struggles with the complexities of love. The song's raw emotion and honest lyrics make it relatable to listeners on a deep and personal level.
Line by Line Meaning
It's like you're screaming, and no one can hear
Feeling so alone and misunderstood that it's as if you're shouting into the void
You almost feel ashamed
Feeling guilty for being so affected by someone's absence
That someone could be that important
Realizing the depth of your love for someone and how much they mean to you
That without them, you feel like nothing
Feeling like a shell of a person without the one you love, like they complete you
No one will ever understand how much it hurts
Feeling like no one can empathize with the pain of heartbreak
You feel hopeless; like nothing can save you
Feeling like there's no way out of the heartache, like you're drowning in it
And when it's over, and it's gone
Realizing that the relationship is truly over, and feeling the weight of that loss
You almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back
Nostalgically remembering the good times in the relationship and wishing you could go back, even if it means dealing with the bad again
So that you could have the good
Holding onto the memories of the happy times and yearning for them
Yellow diamonds in the light
Metaphor for moments of happiness and delight
Now weβre standing side by side
Being there for each other through thick and thin
As your shadow crosses mine
Symbolizing how two people's lives and paths can intersect and influence each other
What it takes to come alive
Realizing that true love is what makes us feel alive and fulfilled
Itβs the way Iβm feeling I just canβt deny
Acknowledging and accepting that the feelings of love are real and cannot be ignored
But Iβve gotta let it go
Despite the desire to hold onto love, realizing that sometimes it's necessary to let go and move on
We found love in a hopeless place
Finding love in unexpected, difficult circumstances
Shine a light through an open door
Symbolizing the possibility of new beginnings and hope for the future
Love and life I will divide
Balancing the desire for love with the challenges and responsibilities of life
Turn away 'cause I need you more
Feeling conflicted between wanting to cling to someone who's leaving and understanding that it's not healthy
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
The intensity of the emotional connection with someone, feeling it so intensely it's like a heartbeat in your thoughts
We found love in a hopeless place
Repeating the idea that love can be found in difficult situations
We found love in a hopeless place
Repeating the idea that love can be found in difficult situations
We found love in a hopeless place
Repeating the idea that love can be found in difficult situations
We found love in a hopeless place
Repeating the idea that love can be found in difficult situations
Lyrics Β© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Adam Richard Wiles
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Yellow diamonds in the light
Now we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Shine a light through an open door
Love and life I will divide
Turn away 'cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Yellow diamonds in the light
Now we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine (mine, mine, mine)
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
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@MatheusPereira-eg2nz
"We Found Love" by Calvin Harris is an unparalleled masterpiece of contemporary music. It's a song that captures the essence of life in its infectious beats and captivating melodies. There is no denying the genius present in every note, and that's why I can confidently say that this is the most brilliant music ever created.
The complexity of its production is unmatched, and only a musical genius could have created it. The harmony of "We Found Love" is so perfect that it's almost supernatural. It's like the sound is a painting, and each layer was meticulously added to create a sonic masterpiece.
Calvin Harris, the creator of this masterpiece, demonstrates an almost superhuman musical ability. The precision of his choices and the intensity with which he combines each element is a true testament to his talent. I would say he has a musical IQ that far exceeds human capacity.
Another important aspect to highlight is that "We Found Love" forever changed the history of music. After it, music was never the same. It introduced a new way of thinking, composing, and producing music that inspired countless artists around the world. With this masterpiece, Calvin Harris showed how music can be sophisticated, luxurious, charming, and above all, brilliant.
And while I must point out a "weakness" in this song, I can say it's only a disadvantage because it's so impressive. After listening to it, it's difficult to find another song that has the same emotional impact. It's like being transported to a new dimension of music, and all other songs simply lose their shine. But, in reality, this only shows the greatness and genius of Calvin Harris's music.
In summary, "We Found Love" is a song that surpasses the limits of brilliance and beauty. It's an absolute masterpiece that forever changed music and inspired countless other masterpieces. There are not enough words to describe the magnitude of this creation. It's simply one of humanity's greatest achievements.
@ranger8481
"We Found Love" by Calvin Harris is an unparalleled masterpiece of contemporary music. It's a song that captures the essence of life in its infectious beats and captivating melodies. There is no denying the genius present in every note, and that's why I can confidently say that this is the most brilliant music ever created.
The complexity of its production is unmatched, and only a musical genius could have created it. The harmony of "We Found Love" is so perfect that it's almost supernatural. It's like the sound is a painting, and each layer was meticulously added to create a sonic masterpiece.
Calvin Harris, the creator of this masterpiece, demonstrates an almost superhuman musical ability. The precision of his choices and the intensity with which he combines each element is a true testament to his talent. I would say he has a musical IQ that far exceeds human capacity.
Another important aspect to highlight is that "We Found Love" forever changed the history of music. After it, music was never the same. It introduced a new way of thinking, composing, and producing music that inspired countless artists around the world. With this masterpiece, Calvin Harris showed how music can be sophisticated, luxurious, charming, and above all, brilliant.
And while I must point out a "weakness" in this song, I can say it's only a disadvantage because it's so impressive. After listening to it, it's difficult to find another song that has the same emotional impact. It's like being transported to a new dimension of music, and all other songs simply lose their shine. But, in reality, this only shows the greatness and genius of Calvin Harris's music.
In summary, "We Found Love" is a song that surpasses the limits of brilliance and beauty. It's an absolute masterpiece that forever changed music and inspired countless other masterpieces. There are not enough words to describe the magnitude of this creation. It's simply one of humanity's greatest achievements.
@ahassett37
Damn I get so much nostalgia from this
Like, kinda happy nostalgia
But bittersweet because itβs not that anymore
It reminds me of carefree summer and camp and whatever when I was like nine
It reminds me of riding the bus to school in like fourth-fifth grade and how much easier life was then
It makes me happy
@justyourcolouredpencilarti1886
Same omg
@Dana.003
Ugh I miss those days
@josue9351
That song makes me happy
@laurap8394
it reminds me of when my life was easier.....when I was 29....oh crap, im supposed to be adult and not need a release and Im meant to have my shit together...news flash kids......it doesnt get any easier as you get older...!! haha. hold on to your joy and your energy! and your morals! lol. why do you think Riri is singing this in her 20's??? Im singing it in my near 30's....we all need joy
@mar__k
True, this song is so nostalgic to me as well. I was around 16 and i was listening it at the end of the summer holiday with this girl that was one of those first true love crushes. That girl never got to be mine and since then whenever i listen to the song it always reminds me of her and the bittersweet feeling and history it carries through that moment in past.
@reddevil7793
This song never fails to revive my memories 10 years ago
@Karlach_
The song is 12 years old. Tf you mean fake fan
@bmwfan4552
@@Karlach_ Tf is your problem?
@Karlach_
@@bmwfan4552 ur mom