Rihanna

Seems like more and more R&B singers are claiming alter egos now-a-days. Mary J. Blige has Brooke, Beyonce has Sasha, Tyrese has Black-Ty and now Rihanna has Robyn. In the August/September issue of Vibe Vixen, Rihanna told the magazine about resolving her own split-personality issues, one being her stage persona, Rihanna, which is her actual middle name, and the other being her given namesake, Robyn. "It wasn't that [my management or the label] told me what to do," she explained. "It was more of what I couldn't do. I couldn't wear red lipstick. I couldn't wear my hair in a ponytail; all kinds of stupid things. Being 'Rihanna' wasn't natural. So I rebelled. I'm doing me. In the issue, hitting newsstands August 7, the “Umbrella” singer also addressed the Jay-Z rumors once more, revealing at one point she couldn't even look him in the eye because she was so embarrassed by all the gossip. But, according to Rihanna, Jay approached her and told her to just ignore the lies. " 'It is what it is,' " she quoted him as saying. Speaking on Rihanna, the pop superstar will be releasing her own line of umbrellas to continue supporting her smash hit single, “Umbrella,” which just became the longest-running U.K. number one single in a decade. According to reports, Rihanna has teamed with British clothing company Totes to put out a collection of five different umbrellas in the U.K. The series will be available in different colors.