Rihanna recently made news when Forbes declared that she was the world's richest female musician with a net worth of $600 million.
The superstar can add another accolade to her long list of accomplishments. Her home country of Barbados has decided to create a museum in her honor.
The country's first female prime minister, Mia Amor Mottley, said during an interview in London on Saturday that plans were already being worked out between Rihanna's team and the government to create a museum that honors her work.
“We’ve been discussing with her [Rihanna] family – her brother in particular and her management – the need for them to establish a major museum with the government in Westbury Road so that people who leave the cruise terminal or who are at Kensington visiting for cricket have another iconic thing besides the Legends of Barbados Museum there at Herbert House,” Mottley said.
"We hope that her family and government can work together to make that a meaningful experience in the same way that when you go to Kingston, you can go and visit Bob Marley’s house.”
Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born and raised in Barbados before heading to the United States as a teenager to start her music career. The 31-year-old is now a chart-topping musician, acclaimed actress, major fashion designer and shrewd businesswoman.
In addition to her philanthropic work on the island, the country named her as an ambassador of education, tourism and investment last year. Barbados also renamed the street she grew up on as "Rihanna Drive" in 2017 and built a small monument to her.
Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley says that talks are taking place over the creation of a permanent, interactive cultural Rihanna museum.
“We’ve been discussing with her family and management the need for them to establish a major museum with the government in Westbury Road." pic.twitter.com/IvJxJFJX0p
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“She didn’t say ‘I want to build a business’ or ‘when I build a successful business’, she said ‘when I build my empire’ – and I’ve never forgotten that – and she has built an empire and is still building it,” Mottley went on to say during the interview at Kensington Town Hall.
“Anybody who could start going to school on a ZR [route taxi] from Westbury to Waterford and could now be the most successful woman entertainer in the entire globe in my view deserves to be recognized in her life as a living legend of Barbados as well.”
