Cedella Booker

Cedella Marley Booker ( born July 23, 1926 as Cedella Malcolm in Nine Miles, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica; † April 8, 2008 in Miami, United States) was a Jamaican singer and author. She was the mother of the reggae musician Bob Marley.

Life

Marley Booker met at the age of 18 years Norval Marley, a plantation overseer British origin. Both secretly married on 9 June 1944 after she became pregnant. But the next day Marley left them and went to Kingston. On February 6, 1945, their son Robert ( Bob) Nesta came into the world, the Marley Booker initially teased with her ​​family.

Her son Bob made ​​in Nine Miles first acquaintance with Bunny Wailer, the son of Toddy Livingston, of the Marley Booker had a daughter. Marley Booker sent her son to his father's wish to Kingston, but caught up with him after a year back to Nine Miles and divorced from Marley. Then she moved with her ​​son in the ghetto Trenchtown in Kingston to where Bob and Bunny became acquainted with Peter Tosh. Marley Booker had become romantically involved since 1963 with Edward Booker, with whom she had another son together, Anthony Booker.

In 1963, the couple decided to Wilmington, Delaware, to emigrate. Her son Bob followed in 1966, after he married Rita Anderson. While her son became first with Tosh and Wailer as the Wailers and then solo as Bob Marley & The Wailers continuous worldwide fame, Marley lived Booker continue in the United States. Later she moved to Miami, Florida, where they have some children of her son Bob with teasing. After Bob's cancer treatment in Germany in 1981 was unsuccessful, she stood him on his deathbed in Miami at.

After the death of her son, she wrote several biographical books about her son and produced both cover albums of songs of her son, and later his own albums.

Marley Booker died at the age of 81 years in Miami a natural death.

• 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 ' Iceland of Song (1992 )
• My altar