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Do you still remember there was a singer performing on the 2011 NBA All-Star Game halftime show on February 20, 2011? There is no doubt that she is Rihanna, the popular R&B singer. And that day is just her 23rd birthday.
您还记得今年NBA全明星赛中场休息时那段精彩的表演吗？您知道那位歌手是谁吗？是的，她正是风靡全球的嘻哈小天后蕾哈娜。而全明星赛当日，也就是2011年2月20日正是她23岁的生日。
Rihanna was born in Barbados .She began singing at around the age of seven. Rihanna attended a local primary school in Barbados, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2003, friends introduced her bands to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife.
蕾哈娜出生在巴巴多斯，7岁时开始唱歌，并在就读的当地小学里与其他两位女同学组成了一个乐队。在2003年，她和另外两名乐队成员被介绍给了音乐制作人伊万•罗杰斯，此时的他正在巴巴多斯与妻子度假。
Rogers said that"the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist." Over the next year, Rihanna and her mom shuttled back and forth to Rogers' home in Connecticut. Then, shortly after turning 16, she relocated in the United States and moved in with Rogers and his wife.
罗杰斯是这样形容与蕾哈娜的第一次见面的：“当她走进房间的那一瞬间，其他两个女孩儿就黯然失色了。”于是，接下来，蕾哈娜便与母亲往返于罗杰斯在美国的家。一直到蕾哈娜16岁，她终于搬到美国和罗杰斯夫妇一起居住。
There,she got the help to record a four-song demo including her first hit "For the Love of You" .But it took a year to finish recording them all, because Rihanna was going to school and would only record during summer and Christmas school breaks. Her demo made its way to Def Jam, which invited her to audition for the then-president, Jay-Z, who quickly signed her.
在美国，蕾哈娜得到了制作四首样片的机会，其中包括红遍全球的《For the Love of You》但是这短短的四首样片却耗时1年多，因为上学的缘故所以蕾哈娜只得暑假和圣诞节休假时才能有时间来录。但是功夫不负有心人，这张样片征服了美国嘻哈大厂Def Jam的总裁Jay-Z。
After that,. She released her debut single, "Pon de Replay", on August 22, 2005, which ranked number two on the Billboard Hot 100.It became a global hit where it peaked within the top ten across fifteen countries. Her debut album, Music of the Sun reached number ten on the Billboard 200, selling 69,000 copies in its first week. Following that were awards of Grammy and more.
签约Def Jam后，蕾哈娜的第一首单曲《Pon de Replay》大受欢迎，勇夺音乐单曲榜亚军，仅惜败于流行乐坛天后玛丽亚•凯莉，这支单曲的成功使年轻的蕾哈娜在美国一夜之间家喻户晓并在其他国家也取得了不错的成绩，同时她的第一张专辑《Music of the Sun》也以6万9千张的第一周销量排名音乐榜单第十位，接下来蕾哈娜开始收获格莱美奖，全美音乐奖和全英音乐奖。
Beside singing, she also contributes a lot to charity. Rihanna created her Believe Foundation in 2006 to help terminally ill children. Rihanna explained her reasons for starting the Foundation saying, "When I was young and I would watch television and I would see all the children suffering, I thought when I grow up, I want to help."
在歌坛中取得巨大成功的蕾哈娜做起慈善来也毫不含糊。2006年她成立了自己的慈善基金来帮助重病的孩子们。她说在她小时候从电视里看到孩子们受难时就决定自己长大后，一定要帮助这些孩子。
Well, it’s just too hard for us to know a person well through few words and maybe in her songs and her performance, you’ll get a rather clear picture about her.
当然，在短短的介绍中全面的了解一个人是非常困难的，也许我们可以听听她的歌，看看她的表演，你也许对蕾哈娜会有一个更中肯的了解和评价。
词汇：
Barbados n. 巴巴多斯（拉丁美洲国家）
trio n. 三重唱,三个一组
shuttle vi. 穿梭往返
Connecticut n. 美国康乃迪克州（位于美国东北部）
relocated vi. 迁移新址；重新安置
demo n. 样本唱片
terminally adv. 在末端；处于末期症状上；最后；致命地
