The 38-year-old, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was raised in a three-bedroom bungalow in the suburb of Westbury in Saint Michael.<\/p>\n
The singer returned to the street she grew up on, which was later renamed Rihanna Drive<\/a> in her honour, with her three children<\/a> \u2013 RZA, four, Riot, three, and Rocki Irish, one \u2013 whom she has with partner A$AP Rocky<\/p>\n One photo shows Rihanna standing with her children in front of a fence that had been erected in front of the home, with a plaque on the driveway showing her name and a sun.<\/p>\n \u201cOne minute I feel like that kid from Westbury\u2026the next minute I\u2019m bringing my own kids back to \u2018Rihanna Drive\u2019,\u201d she captioned the post.<\/p>\n \u201cTrippy how life works! And the Glory STILL and WILL ALWAYS belong to the Almighty Creator!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Once called Westbury New Road, the street was renamed Rihanna Drive in 2017 in a ceremony she attended.<\/p>\n The official Barbados Tourism website reads: \u201cThis is the place where an icon was born; a backstreet located on the outskirts of Bridgetown. It\u2019s tucked away from the bustling traffic of the Mighty Gryner Highway and an earshot from the shoreline.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, this street is known as a cultural landmark but before it was once just Westbury Road and the home of The Right Excellent Robyn Rihanna Fenty,\u201d it continued, referencing the singer being declared a National Hero of Barbados during their 2021 Independence Day ceremony.<\/p>\n Rihanna\u2019s parents, Ronald Fenty and Monica Braithwaite, also had sons Rorrey and Rajad.<\/p>\n The couple separated when Rihanna was young before officially divorcing in 2002 when she was 14.<\/p>\n She told Entertainment Weekly in 2007 of her childhood: \u201cIt\u2019s not great memories. But it helped to build me and make me stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n Rihanna has previously spoken about her father\u2019s struggle with addiction and in 2009 described her parents\u2019 marriage as \u201cabusive\u201d.<\/p>\n In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2012, she went on to speak about efforts to \u201crepair\u201d her relationship with her father after feeling \u201canger\u201d towards him for her childhood experiences.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cHe taught me everything, and as awful as he was to my mom, at times, it didn\u2019t compare to how great he was as a father. And I had to come to terms with that, and I was able to close that gap with him.\u201d<\/p>\n Fenty died at the age of 70 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2213102567...jpeg\")
The singer, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was raised in Saint Michael, Barbados. (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n