12 Interesting Rihanna Facts, You Should Never Miss.

1. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, on February 20, 1988.

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2. Her mother, Monica (Braithwaite), is a retired accountant of Afro-Guyanese background, and her father, Ronald Fenty, is a warehouse supervisor of Afro-Barbadian and Irish descent.

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3. Rihanna has two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty, and two half-sisters and a half-brother from her father’s side, each born to different mothers from his previous relationships.

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4. She grew up in a three-bedroom bungalow in Bridgetown and sold clothes with her father in a stall on the street.

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5. Rihanna’s childhood was deeply affected by her father’s addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol, which contributed to her parents’ strained marriage.

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6. As a child, she went through a lot of CT scans for the excruciating headaches she suffered: “The doctors even thought that I had a tumor, because it was that intense.”

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7. At age 14, she was diagnosed with a benign tumor on her left parotid gland and was successfully operated on in early 2002.

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8. Rihanna’s music career began when she formed a girl group with two of her classmates.

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9. In 2003, she recorded a demo with producer Evan Rogers which led to her being signed by Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for then-label head Jay-Z.

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10. She released her first studio album, Music of the Sun, in August 2005.

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11. Her second album, A Girl like Me, was released in April 2006.

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12. She released her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, in May 2007.

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