Cindy Breakspeare
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born | Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare October 24, 1954 Toronto, Ontario |
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| Title(s) | Miss World 1976 (Winner) |
Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare (born October 24, 1954), better known as Cindy Breakspeare, is a Jamaican jazz musician and former model. She was crowned Miss World 1976, and is the mother of Grammy-winning reggae musician Damian Marley, born in 1978, with Bob Marley. Bob wrote the song "Turn Your Lights Down Low" about his relationship with her.[1]
Breakspeare was born in Toronto, Canada, to a Jamaican father, Louis Breakspeare, and a Canadian mother, Marguerite Cochrane. Cindy also has 2 brothers, Steven Breakspeare and John Spence. She moved to Jamaica when she was four years old, and as a teenager she began participating in beauty pageants, including Miss Jamaica Body Beautiful and Miss Universe Bikini. She was invited to participate in the Miss World competition in 1976; she traveled to London and won the title on November 19th, 1976,[2] becoming the second Jamaican to do so.[3]
She married senator and attorney-at-law Tom Tavares-Finson in 1981 with whom she has a son Christian (1982) and a daughter Leah (1986). Breakspeare and Tavares-Finson divorced in 1995.
She is currently married to musician Rupert Bent II.
[edit] References
- ^ "Jamaican Hall Of Fame: Cindy Breakspeare (Jamaica)". Jamaicans.com. http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/hallfame/cindybreakspeare.shtml. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ "Meredith Dixon". Uvm.edu. http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/dreadlibrary/dixon.html. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ "Social - Cindy Breakspeare makes the big 5-O! - Sunday | October 31, 2004". Jamaica Gleaner. 2004-10-31. http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20041031/ent/ent4.html. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
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