Rihanna overcame issues at home by escaping in music. Just a young teen her and her friends got the chance to audition for Evan Rogers a music producer. With the help of Rogers, she was then signed with Def Jam Records. The album Music of the Sun is what made her famous at the age of sixteen. Her song “Pon de Replay” hit the top five on the billboard chart “It’s just language that we speak in Barbados. It’s broken English. Pon is on, De means the, so it’s just basically telling the DJ to put my song on the reply.” she says. After many hours in the studio working on her music she’s won six Grammy Awards. …show more content…
Rihanna says, “When I was young, and I would watch television and I would see all the children suffering, I always said when I grow up I wanted to help,” and confirms this is the main reason she started the foundation. Their goals for this foundation are: raise awareness of the impact of leukemia, aid the 10,000 people in need of a bone marrow transplant each year, help 70% of the patients who rely on strangers for a second chance, and recruit and register nearly 4,000 new bone