What famous pop star is originally from Barbados?
Biography 1988–2004: Early life and recording contract Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, to Ronald and Monica Fenty. She has two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.[6] Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her father is Barbadian and Irish.[7] Rihanna’s parents divorced when she was fourteen years old.[6] Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2004, she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant.[8] She was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.[9] At the age of fifteen she formed a girl group with two of her classmates.[6] In 2003, friends introduced Rihanna and her two bandmates to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. The group auditioned for Rogers, who said that “the minute Ri
