Cedella Booker

Cedella Marley Booker (born July 23, 1926, died April 8 2008), is the mother of the late reggae musician Bob Marley and a singer and writer.

Booker was born Cedella Malcolm in Rhoden Hall, St. Anne, Jamaica to Omeriah Malcolm and Alberta Willoughby. 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. She passed away at 82 years old in Miami, Florida on Tuesday April 8th, 2008. Booker has written two books about her son

• 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

She released the music albums Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song.

External links

• The story of Cedella Booker and Bob Marley
• Wailers Discography- Family Tree
• Cedella Marley Booker at the Reggae Kentucky Splash
• Cedella Marley about her son Bob Marley