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JULIAN MARLEY, SIZZLA, AND RAPPER DMX FOR THE 9 MILE MUSIC FESTIVAL, MARCH 11, IN FLORIDA!

Top: Julian Marley Bottom: Sizzla Julian Marley, Sizzla and rapper DMX are part of this year’s 9 Mile Music Festival, scheduled for March 11 at Virginia Key Beach in Florida. The Miami New Times reports that Capleton, Charly Black, singer Kreesha Turner and sound system The Mighty Crown are also confirmed for the event which observes its 24th year. It was initiated by Cedella Booker, mother of reggae legend Bob Marley, to help the indigent in Florida where she lived for many years. Booker died in Miami in 2008 at age 81. The festival’s name is taken from her and Marley’s birthplace of Nine Miles, St Ann. It is where both are buried. Since its inception, organizers have reached out to artistes and fans to collect and donate canned goods which are collected at the venue’s … Read entire article »

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SKIP MARLEY IS BREATHING NEW LIFE IN HIS FAMILY’S MUSIC!

SKIP MARLEY IS BREATHING NEW LIFE IN HIS FAMILY’S MUSIC!

BY ELVIS ANDERSON— Nine Miles, Jamaica. Photo by Melissa Espinoza From a little place in the steep, green hills of Jamaica known as Nine Miles, music was changed forever. People here live off the land and trap drinking water from their roofs. Nesta Robert Marley is from here. You may know him better as Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae star who would forever change the way people looked at his native island. Marley’s friend and Wailers Artistic Director Neville Garick … Read entire article »

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WORLD WAR ONE: BOB MARLEY’S FATHER “NEUROTIC AND INCONTINENT!”

By Trystan Jones and Genevieve Tudor, BBC News—- Bob Marley was just 10, when his father Norval died A musical icon and one of the best-selling artists of all time, Bob Marley lived most of his short adult life in the spotlight. It was in marked contrast to his enigmatic father about whom little more is known, apart from a less than illustrious World War One record. Norval Sinclair Marley, born in the UK in 1885, was rarely talked about, even by those closest to his reggae star son. Actress Esther Anderson, who became Bob Marley’s girlfriend in the 1970s, said: “The guy didn’t exist. There was a photograph of him on a horse, a white man on a horse.” Bob himself rarely talked about his father, she said, and when he did it was … Read entire article »

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