12 Successful Celebrities Who Never Went to College

Rihanna

Rihanna is a Barbadian singer, actress and businesswoman who gained fame after signing with Def Jam in 2005 and releasing her first two albums Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl like Me (2006). The chart-topping single “Umbrella” earned Rihanna her first Grammy Award. She has collaborated with famous artists, such as Drake, Eminem, Shakira and Calvin Harris.

According to the mass media, Rihanna is one f the best selling music artists of all time, with sales of over 250 million records worldwide. Rihanna’s accolades include nine Grammy Awards, 13 American Music Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and six Guinness World Records.

Our beautiful and talented singer is also the founder of the nonprofit organization called Clara Lionel Foundation, cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH.

She grew up in a three-bedroom bungalow along with her parents and siblings and sold clothes in a stall on the street. Her parents divorced when she was 14 years old because her father physically abused her mother. Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School and Combermere School, but left it at the age of 16 to pursue a musical career instead.