United Kingdom, June 27 -- Rihanna's father died of cancer and other serious illnesses.

The Diamonds hitmaker's dad Ronald Fenty passed away on 30 May at the age of 70, shortly after being admitted to a Los Angeles hospital, and now it has emerged he had multiple health conditions at the time of his death.

According to a death certificate obtained by TMZ, Ronald's death certificate listed acute respiratory failure, pancreatic cancer and aspiration pneumonia - a bacterial lung infection - as well as two kidney conditions, acute renal failure and acute tubular necrosis.

As well as Rihanna, Ronald is also survived by the singer's mother Monica Braithwaite - whom he split from in 2002 - and other daughters Kandi, 54, and Samantha Fenty, 44...