Rihanna has won the top entertainer award for the second consecutive year at the Barbados Music Awards.
The 18-year-old R&B singer, who was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on this Caribbean island, won several other categories including best album for “A Girl Like Me” and best song for the Top 10 single “Unfaithful.”
“I am always delighted to win awards, but it’s especially great to win awards at home,” she said. “I’m actually working on my third album, so you will be seeing and hearing a lot from me in the upcoming months.”
She closed the event by performing “Unfaithful” for a capacity crowd Friday night that included her mother, Monica Fenty, and Prime Minister Owen Arthur.
Rihanna, who moved to the United States from Barbados in 2005, edged out Mary J. Blige and Beyonce for the best female artist of the year award last month at the Billboard Music Awards.
In November, she received the best R&B award at the MTV Europe Music Awards. She won the same category at September’s Music of Black Origin awards in London.
Her albums, “Music of the Sun” and “A Girl Like Me,” were released on the Def Jam label.
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