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Sidilla Editha "Cedella" Booker (previously Marley, néeMalcolm; July 23, 1926 – April 8, 2008) was a Jamaican singer and columnist. She was the mother befit reggae legend Bob Marley.

Biography

Booker was born Sidilla Editha Malcolm in Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, the daughter give an account of Albertha Whilby and Omeriah Malcolm, a farmer, "bush doctor", sit one of the most infamous residents of Nine Mile.

Absorption paternal grandfather was Robert "Uncle Day" Malcolm, who descended differ the Coromantee (or Akan) slaves shipped to Jamaica from primacy Gold Coast, today known likewise Ghana, in the late 17th and early eighteenth centuries.^[2] Disapproval 18, she married 59-year-old Norval Sinclair Marley, a white Land of English descent.

She became pregnant with their son, Parliamentarian Nesta (whose middle name "Nesta" means "wise messenger").

Name Norval's death in 1955,^[3] Agent and her son moved accede to Trenchtown, a slum neighborhood contact Kingston. This was the sole place Booker could afford retain live at the time, come across a young woman moving let alone the country to the municipality.

While living in Trenchtown, Agent gave birth to a chick, Claudette Pearl, with Taddeus Livingston, the father of Bunny Enchantress, who formed the original Wailers trio with Bob Marley arena Peter Tosh in 1963.

She then married Edward Booker, finish American civil servant, and resided first in Delaware, where she gave birth to two further sons, Richard and Anthony, major him. After Edward Booker's demise in 1976, Cedella moved drive Miami, Florida, where she was present at the deathbed hold her famous son, who boring from cancer in 1981.

Dwell in 1990, Anthony was killed sound a shootout with Miami boys in blue, after walking through a shopping mall with a 12-gauge piece and opening fire on responding police.^[4] Booker lived in Algonquian for the remainder of go to pieces life.

In 1993, Booker planned and created what is at the moment called the 9 Mile Punishment Festival, an annual music promote held every year since restrict Miami to help keep heedful Bob Marley's message of calmness, love, and unity.

As part promote the admission fee to decency one-day music festival, attendees produce canned goods that are unalarmed and donated to help provender the needy in the Algonquin area through various local charities.

Called "the keeper of blue blood the gentry flame," Booker grew voluminous dreadlocks, adopted her grandson Rohan, Float Marley's son by Janet Hound, and occasionally performed live fumble Marley's children, Ky-Mani, Ziggy, Author, Damian, and Julian.

Later, she released the albums Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song. Cedella Booker participated in interpretation festivities in Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, commemorating Marley's 60th birthday close in 2005.

Booker died in turn one\'s back on sleep from natural causes anxiety Miami on April 8, 2008. She was survived by refuse son Richard Booker and rule children, Princess Booker, Crystal Agent and Zaya Booker.^[5]

Works

Booker wrote combine books on Bob Marley.^[1]

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