Special: Making Rihanna

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

Improvement, Nerd, Culture, Wbez, Pop, Books, Society & Culture, Nerdette, Self, Tv & Film, Technology, Nerds, Tv

4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Happy Holidays! Team Nerdette is taking a break this week and we're bringing you a special episode from our friends at WBEZ's Making podcast. Robyn Rihanna Fenty was just 16 when she signed a record deal with Jay-Z. She was 19 when her smash hit “Umbrella” took the world by storm. Now at 34, she is not only known as a popstar but also a fashion mogul and billionaire. But how did she get here? Listen, and find out! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:33.2	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:35.9	I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend.
0:38.4	And we made it to the end of the year,
0:43.9	no less. I hope you are all having a delightful holiday season. And hopefully you've got a good chance to kind of reset and catch your breath. That is actually exactly what the NERDET team is
0:49.9	doing this week. So we are taking the week off. We are bringing you an episode from our friends
0:53.8	over at the Making podcast. That's WBEZ's podcast that tells the origin stories of iconic black
1:00.4	figures, from Serena Williams to Ida B. Wells to Maya Angelou. Making is hosted by a friend of the show,
1:07.2	Brandon Pope, you've heard him on her dad before. And here he is with the story behind Rihanna.
1:12.8	Enjoy.
1:13.6	Nah, nah, nah, come on.
1:15.4	International pop icon.
1:17.4	Na, nah, nah.
1:18.6	Youngest self-made billionaire woman.
1:22.9	And fashion mogul.
1:24.9	Na, nah, nah, come on.
1:26.5	Come on. Come on. Na, na, come on, come on, come on.
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