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Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, on February 20, 1988. She is the daughter of Monica (née Braithwaite), an Afro-Guyanese accountant, and Ronald Fenty, a Barbadian warehouse supervisor of African, Irish, English, and Scottish descent.Rihanna has two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty, as well as two half-sisters and a half-brother from her father's previous relationships.She was raised in a three-bedroom bungalow in Bridgetown and helped her father sell clothes at a street stall.Her childhood was affected by her father's alcoholism and crack cocaine addiction, which strained her parents' marriage.Rihanna has spoken about witnessing her father physically abuse her mother, describing her as "one of the strongest women I know, if not the strongest". As a child, Rihanna suffered from intense headaches that required multiple CT scans, with doctors once suspecting a tumor. Her health began to improve after her parents divorced when she was 14.She attended Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School and Combermere School.One of her teachers described her as a "well-behaved student" who avoided trouble.She showed an interest in singing, dancing, and poetry. Around this time, Rihanna began listening to reggae artists such as Sizzla and Damien Marley, as well as R&B musicians like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.At the age of 11, she became a cadet in Barbados's Cadet Corps, with future singer Shontelle as her drill sergeant.Though she initially planned to finish high school, she ultimately dropped out at age 16 to pursue a music career.