London, Europe Brief News – Superstar Rihanna will make her highly anticipated return to live performance at Super Bowl 57 this weekend.
The nine-time Grammy Award winner will headline a halftime show that will highlight her Caribbean culture.
Rihanna’s return to the stage during Sunday’s Super Bowl half-time show – her first live performance since pitching in to help DJ Khaled on Wild Thoughts at the 2018 Grammys – does not guarantee new music. Even the singer has joked that R9 (the colloquial name for her next, ninth LP) may be lost to time.
But it does herald a megawatt return to the music spotlight for one of pop’s most reliable hit-makers, who has for nearly seven years devoted her energy elsewhere.
Since the release of Anti, a moody, meandering album now considered a modern pop classic, Rihanna has been busy: becoming a billionaire, taking over the Met gala, filming a documentary that has also been on years-long delay (and waiting for her approval, according to director Peter Berg).
She launched Fenty Beauty, her cosmetics line, and Savage x Fenty, her lingerie brand, whose annual diverse, body-positive fashion show has essentially consigned Victoria’s Secret’s version to the dustbin.
In 2020, she became the first Black woman to head a luxury fashion house, Fenty Maison, for conglomerate LVMH, the company behind Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Celine and others.
In May last year, she had her first child, a son, with her boyfriend, the rapper A$AP Rocky.
