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Alfarita Constantia Marley (Rita Marley)

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Marley was born in Santiago de Cuba, to Leroy Anderson and Cynthia “Beda” Jarrett, her parents moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when she was three months old.[1] In her memoir No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley, she describes how she was raised by her Aunt Viola after her parents separated.[2] She was raised in Trenchtown in Kingston, Jamaica. The Soulettes released recordings including rocksteady tunes such as “Time for Everything”, “Turn Turn Turn” (released in 1966, written by folk singer Pete Seeger) and “A Deh Pon Dem”. “Friends and Lovers”, “One More Chance” and “That Ain’t Right” (featuring harmony vocals by the Wailers), as well as a duet by Marley and Bunny Wailer, “Bless You” were issued years later on the Lovers and Friends album. After those recordings for the Studio One (record label) coached by Bob, Marley married Bob Marley around February 1966, just before her husband moved to Wilmington, Delaware for a few months to make a living working at the Dupont Hotel there. Bob was replaced by her cousin Constantine “Vision” Walker, who recorded a few songs as a member of The Wailers during this period, with Marley providing harmonies.

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She is the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley. Along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, she was a member of the reggae vocal group the I Threes, the backing vocalists for Bob Marley and the Wailers.

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