Cedella Booker
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Cedella Marley Booker (born July 23, 1926) is the mother of the late reggae musician Bob Marley and a singer and writer.
A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Booker married Norval Sinclair Marley, a white Jamaican of English ancestry, when she was 18. Norval Marley was a Marine officer and captain, as well as a plantation overseer. He provided financial support for his wife and child but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. Bob was ten years old when Norval died of a heart attack in 1955 at age 60. Cedella and Bob then moved to the Trenchtown slum of Kingston.
Booker later remarried an American man and moved to Delaware.
Booker has written the books Bob Marley, My Son and Bob Marley: An Intimate Portrait by His Mother and released the music albums Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song.
