All All. Sign In. List activity. Music Artist Actress Composer Battleship Rihanna lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top sixth form school.
Rihanna won numerous beauty pageants and performed Mariah Carey 's single, Hero in a school talent show. 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.
He heard her sing and knew she was going to be incredibly successful. She was age 16 when she was signed to Def Jam. Since then, she's amassed phenomenal success. Zoe Saldana. Actress Producer Writer Avatar Her father was Dominican and her mother is Puerto Rican. She was raised in Queens, New York. When she was 10 years old, she and her family moved to the Dominican Republic, where they would live for the next seven years.
While living there, Zoe discovered a keen interest in performance dance and began her training at the prestigious ECOS Espacio de Danza Dance Academy where she learned ballet as well as other dance forms. Not only did her training provide an excellent outlet for the enthusiastic and energetic youngster, it would also prove to be a fortunate precursor for the start of her professional acting career.
At age 17, Zoe and her family moved back to the United States where her love for dance followed and an interest in theater performance became stronger.
