Rihanna was shining bright like a diamond at the 2024 Crop Over Festival in her native Barbados. The “Work” singer caused a commotion Monday as she made at appearance at the carnival, rocking a bejeweled, full-body costume with a matching headpiece and multicolored, feathered wings. Fans were understandably wowed by the pop star as videos were circulated on X .
“Looking amazing as usual! 😍,” one person wrote, while another posted, “a literal goddess 😍✨.” The Grammy winner, 36, has attended the Crop Over Festival in previous years. For her last appearance in 2019, she made a statement in a hot pink minidress that was covered in similarly colored ostrich feathers.
And back in 2015, she also posted a saucy video of herself twerking , with the caption, “Eye-soul-ation #CaribbeanGal #Culture.” Two years later, the Fenty Beauty founder — whose real name is Robyn Fenty — was accused of a Photoshop fail when she posted a picture of her carnival outfit, which showed her seemingly sporting an extra thumb. The Barbadian carnival originated on the sugar cane plantations during slavery and marked the end of the harvest.
The event is the country’s most popular and colorful festival and can be traced back centuries to when Barbados was the world’s largest sugar can producer. It celebrates the end of one sugar cane season and the culmination of another. Earlier this month, Rihanna and longtime partner A$AP Rocky celebrated their youngest son Riot’s first bir.