Petite, cute as a button and enormously talented, this singer has been topping the charts since 2005. Most known for her annoyingly catchy No. 1 hit “Umbrella,” Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty at birth) has five other chart-topping singles and a robust 11 million albums sold worldwide, including Music of the Sun, A Girl Like Me and Good Girl Gone Bad. Like so many success stories, Rihanna’s big break came almost by accident -- she had recorded a few tracks that somehow fell into the hands of Jay-Z, who soon signed her to Def Jam. And the rest is, as they say, history.
