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Rihanna performed her smash hit single ‘Umbrella’ with Jay-Z at the 3rd Annual THISDAY Fashion and Musical Festival in Abuja, Nigeria on Friday. This year’s festival, which is tagged ‘Africa Rising: To Celebrate the Best and Brightest of Emerging New Africa’, was designed o revolutionize global perspectives on African issues. The organizers of the event [...]

Apart from cleaning house at the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards which was held at the Chum/City Building on Sunday in Toronto, Canada, Rihanna also performed her latest single ‘Take a Bow’. The Barbadian babe changed into a black ruffled top and black leather lace-up boots before her performance which marked the first time the 20-year [...]

You know that you have the hottest tour of this year when you’ve got some of the hottest artists OPENING your show for you. Rihanna beams in a hot pink number during Kanye West’s ‘Glow in the Dark’ tour at HP Pavilion on Saturday in San Jose, California. The Queen of 2007 and still reigning [...]

Who wouldn’t want Rihanna’s smokin’ hot bod? The girl is everywhere now and looking good all the time.
The singer was recently interviewed by the U.K.’s Fabulous magazine. She talked about how she kept her awesome figure and why size isn’t really an issue. She says carbs are the enemy!
So, watch out Dr. [...]

Rihanna and Chris Brown are certainly heating things up in their rumored romance. The Barbados singer even took the R&B crooner home! Rihanna turned 20 on Wednesday in London and immediately flew to her hometown to meet up with her new paramour for what was dubbed ‘Rihanna Day’ by the national government on Thursday. [...]

Rihanna’s hit single ‘Umbrella’ has been the biggest single of the year which merited a lot of covers from different artists representing different genres. It’s actually the most covered single of 2007. It’s so big that even Rihanna has done her own cover of her own song!
Rihanna actually went back in to the studio and [...]

The Grammy nominations have been announced, and the Plain White T’s have earned two honors! The band is up for “Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” and “Song of the Year” for their smash hit “Hey There Delilah.” The T’s will be battling 2007 sensations like Carrie Underwood, Amy [...]

If you’re still in doubt, the 2007 American Music Awards held on Sunday should be all the proof you need that 2007 is the year of Rihanna. Not only did she rock the red carpet, she also rocked her performance and took some awards home while she’s at it.
Rihanna did a medley of two of [...]

Rihanna was spotted leaving Café Med in Los Angeles on Sunday. The hot Barbados-born singer is rumored to performed her latest single, which features Ne-yo, ‘Hate That I Love You’ at the 2007 American Music Awards.
Other rumored performers include Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Daughtry, Celine Dion, Duran Duran, Fergie, Will.I.Am, Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia [...]

Rihanna has urged the media to stop criticizing Britney Spears’ MTV Video Music Awards performance. The “Umbrella” star believes Spears’ disastrous stageshow at the Las Vegas ceremony earlier this month was the result of her not having performed much recently coupled with the stress of her ongoing child custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline. [...]