Robyn Fenty – better known to pop fans as pop star Rihanna – has revealed that she’s such a fan of deceased Jamaican legend Bob Marley that she’s built a shrine to the late “No Woman No Cry” singer in her home.
According to the 22-year-old “Only Girl (In The World)” star, one room in her Los Angeles mansion is filled with Marley memorabilia, a giant painting of the legendary singer, and other Marley associated items. “The Bob Marley room is my loungey room, so there’s incense burning, there’s a painting on the wall of Bob Marley in black and white, which I love,” Rihanna recently described. “The rest of the room goes from green into yellow into red, like the Jamaican flag. There’s a little coffee table and these seats that are like big pillows on the floor, so it’s not formal at all. There are lots of Bob Marley books, lyric books. He’s one of my favourite artists of all time – he really paved the way for every other artist out of the Caribbean.”
Born in Barbados, Rihanna moved to the USA at the age of 16 and has gone on to become one of the pop world’s most successful artists. She’s released five studio albums so far, including her most recent LP, Loud, due out next week. Produced by Stargate, The Runners, and Alex da Kid, Loud is a step forward from her chart-topping Rated R disc claims the singer, who insists that no one will ever tell her what to do artistically – or personally – ever again.
“At the end of the day, who the f**k am I living for?” she insisted to The Sun newspaper. “It’s me, 30 years from now I want to look back and say I really enjoyed it, and lived it to the fullest of my expectations, not like a puppet.”
