Rodgers arranged for her to go to New York to meet Jay-Z, CEO of Def Jam Records. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers, a producer from New York who was in Barbados for a vacation with his wife, who is a native. Rihanna won numerous beauty pageants and performed Mariah Carey's single, Hero in a school talent show. Rihanna lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top sixth form school. Her mother is Afro-Guyanese and her father is of Afro-Barbadian and British Isles ancestry.

Michael, Barbados to Monica Braithwaite, an accountant & Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor. The theme of the film is just about exploration and of the unknown, so there are all these really great underlying themes.Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on Februin Bridgetown, St. We just talked to her a little bit about what that was-like was that actually banging on a wall or what was that about pushing the boundaries? I think when you look at the video, the overall arc of it has that story. The lyrics sheвЂ™s a sledgehammer, and sheвЂ™s breaking down boundaries, so I wanted the video to have that. How did you both work together to come up with the treatment? How did you combine your visions?ДЄВ lot of it was just imagining what it would be like, and just sort of creating the character and having her navigate through this otherworldly place. And her endurance-I mean, we shot for nine hours straight in the desert, and I donвЂ™t know if we even stopped for lunch. Just all those little magical moments, it was really wonderful to see and to be part of. Or she'll stop singing andВ just give a look into the camera. In every take, she kind of gives you a little surpriseВ and gives you something new. Tell me about your experience working withВ Rihanna. She conjures energy and lightВ and ultimately embodies the power to transform into the universe itself, the stars and the planets. So thatвЂ™s how I use the sun, the rocks, and the earth itself. And she has the power to harness and manipulate the elements. The idea is that sheвЂ™s sort of like this ancient alien, this otherworldly character, kind of like a mystical being, living in this otherworldly planet. ThereвЂ™s something beautiful about having the universe inside of us.

I always had this image of a person turning into stars. I extracted those elementsВ and built a story around it. It was the form and the rocks and the nebula. ItвЂ™s supposed to be a stand-alone piece for the soundtrack film, so what I did is, I extracted some elements from the film that kind of gravitated toward me. Given that the song is featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming Star Trek: BeyondВ film, how did you come up with an originalВ concept for this video?

We had the opportunity to pickВ Sigismondi's brain to learn more about the concept forВ the video, what it's like to work with Rihanna, and what the director isВ working on next. 'We were surrounded by nothing, so there weren'tВ any distractions. 'The great thing about that location was it kind of already took you there,' she says. According to her, the whole 'middle of nowhere' environmentВ was significant in setting the toneВ for the production. While the video transports us to another galaxy, Sigismondi revealed that it was actuallyВ filmed in theВ Trona Pinnacles desert located in SouthernВ California. It's not far-fetched from the pop star'sВ IRL personality, but we don't typically see Bad Gal RiRiВ draped in a silky garment with ink markingsВ across her face and noВ eyebrows (looking stunning nonetheless).

In the out-of-this-worldВ visual, directed by Floria Sigismondi, Rihanna portraysВ a beautiful, mystical being coming into her own all by herself. This morning, Rihanna released theВ official music video for 'Sledgehammer' in IMAX, making it the first of its kind.

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