Cedella Marley Booker
Cedella Marley Booker (born July 23, 1926 as Cedella Malcolm in Nine Miles , Saint Ann Parish , Jamaica , † April 8, 2008 in Miami , USA ) was a Jamaican singer and author . She was the mother of reggae musician Bob Marley .
Life
Marley Booker met Norval Sinclair Marley, a captain in the British Army , at the age of 17 . After she became pregnant, they both secretly married on June 9, 1944, but Marley left her the next day and went to Kingston . On February 6, 1945, their son Robert (Bob) Nesta was born, whom Marley Booker initially raised with the help of her family.
Her son Bob first met Bunny Wailer , the son of Toddy Livingston, who Marley Booker also had a daughter, in Nine Miles . Marley Booker sent her son to Kingston at his father's request, but brought him back to Nine Miles after a year and divorced Marley. She then moved with her son to the Trenchtown ghetto in Kingston, where Bob and Bunny met Peter Tosh . Marley Booker had been dating Edward Booker since 1963, with whom she had another son, Anthony Booker.
In 1963 the couple decided to emigrate to Wilmington , Delaware . Their son Bob followed in 1966 after marrying Rita Anderson . Marley Booker continued to live in the United States while her son continuously achieved world fame, first with Tosh and Wailer as The Wailers and then solo as Bob Marley & The Wailers . She later moved to Miami, Florida, where she raised some of the children of her son Bob. After Bob's cancer treatment in Germany in 1981 was unsuccessful, she stood by him on his deathbed in Miami.
After the death of her son, she wrote several biographical books about her son and produced both cover albums of her son's songs and later her own albums.
Marley Booker died of natural causes in Miami at the age of 81.
Books
- Bob Marley, My Son. Taylor Trade Publishing, ISBN 978-0878332984
- Bob Marley: An Intimate Portrait by His Mother. Penguin Books Ltd (UK), ISBN 978-0140258141
Albums
- Awake Zion (1990)
- Smilin 'Island of Song (1992)
- My altar
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bob Marley. Munzinger people. munzinger.de, accessed on October 17, 2018 .
- ^ According to other information on April 6; see. Munzinger:
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Booker Marley, Cedella |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malcolm, Cedella (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jamaican singer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nine Miles , Saint Ann Parish , Jamaica |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 2008 |
| Place of death | Miami , USA |