Cedella
Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob
Marley, has died, a family spokesman said . She
was 81.
Booker died in her sleep Tuesday
night at her home in Miami, apparently from natural
causes, spokesman Jerome Hamilton said.
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.
source: usatoday.com
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