

"When I left Barbados, I didn't look back," Rihanna recalled. Less than a year later, when Rihanna was only 16 years old, she left Barbados to move in with Rogers and his wife in Connecticut and work on recording a demo album. "The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist," he admitted. Rogers was awed by the precociously beautiful and talented Rihanna, to the unfortunate detriment of her two friends. She formed a girl group with two classmates when they were 15 years old, they scored an audition with music producer Evan Rodgers, who was visiting the island with his Barbadian wife. you would never know there was something wrong with me." Move to the United StatesĪs a teenager, Rihanna turned to singing as a release from her troubles at home. "I never expressed how I felt," she remembered. Rihanna also struggled with crippling headaches for several years during her childhood, a condition she attempted to hide from her friends and classmates so that they would not think she was abnormal.
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Rihanna's childhood was marred by her father's struggles with addictions to alcohol and crack cocaine and her parents' marital problems - they divorced when she was 14 years old.

She is the eldest of three children born to Monica Fenty, an accountant, and Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor. Michael Parish on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20, 1988, in St. She went on to release more albums and an array of hit songs, including "Unfaithful," "Umbrella," "Disturbia," "Take a Bow," "Diamonds" and "We Found Love." A global pop star with an unrelentingly edgy image, Rihanna has also won multiple industry accolades, including Grammys and MTV awards. Popstar Rihanna signed with Def Jam records at age 16 and in 2005 released her first album Music of the Sun, which sold more than two million copies worldwide.
