Bob Marley’s mom Cedella Booker
Posted: Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 9:48 pmKINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died… She was 81. Booker died in her sleep Tuesday night at her home in Miami, apparently from natural causes…
Booker, a Jamaica native, was 18 when she married Norval Marley, a British man 32 years her senior. Their son brought Jamaican reggae music to international prominence, becoming its international image. Bob Marley died in Miami of a brain tumor in 1981 at age 36. …
After Norval Marley died in 1955, Booker married an American man and settled in Delaware. She wrote two biographies of her famous son and recorded two albums, “Awake Zion!” and “Smilin’ Island of Song.”
“She was a star in her own right,” Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding said in a statement. …
Everyone in St. Ann’s parish knew Booker as “Mama B”…Booker is survived by two children and several grandchildren, including Ziggy Marley, who won four Grammys with the Melody Makers… Read full obituary
