Cindy Breakspeare

Cynthia Jane Breakspeare, known as Cindy Breakspeare ( born October 24, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Jamaican jazz musician of Canadian origin. She was crowned Miss World 1976.

Breakspeare was born in 1954 as the daughter of a Canadian mother and a Jamaican father and moved to Jamaica in 1958. As a teenager she began to participate in beauty contests, including to Miss Jamaica Body Beautiful and Miss Universe Bikini. In 1976, she represented Jamaica at the Miss World beauty pageant in London and won it - as only the second Jamaican ever.

Their affair with the reggae legend Bob Marley, the song Turn your lights down low wrote about them when he was in London in temporary exile, brought forth their son Damian Marley, who is known as reggae musicians today. 1981 to 1995 she was married to the lawyer and Senator Tom Tavares - Finson, with whom she has two children. Today Breakspeare is married with guitarist Rupert Bent II, with whom she has a daughter. They appear together as a jazz musician.

• Jamaican musicians
• Model
• Miss World
• Bob Marley
• Jamaican
• Canadian
• Born in 1954
• Woman