Rita marley autobiography

Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures.
No Woman No Cry is a unique biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice.
A revealing memoir of Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley, from the woman who knew him better than anyone-his wife.

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The Queen of Reggae

All over the world, the Marley name has become synonymous with reggae music, rastafari and Jamaica. It is no coincidence that the talented young Rita Anderson, born in Cuba and raised from an early age in Trenchtown, was destined to become an integral part of the musical Marley family. Rita has been a principal figure on the music scene for over 30 years, when the foundation of contemporary Jamaican music was formed, and has maintained a prominent role.

It was in the early sixties that her musical career began as a vocalist with the all-female singing group, The Soulettes, who have appeared with the Four Tops, Johnny Nash and numerous other stars. She would soon make the acquaintance of a local Trenchtown youth, Robert Nesta Marley, who was also answering a musical c alling. Music became their bond.

Enduring the hardships of the initial years of the Jamaican music industry together, Bob and Rita never turned back. By the early seventies, they developed the I-Threes, Jamaica's th

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Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing

Kindle Book
ISBN: 9780316287128
Release date: February 5, 2013

OverDrive Read
ISBN: 9781401305697
Release date: February 5, 2013

EPUB ebook
ISBN: 9781401305697
File size: 2599 KB
Release date: February 5, 2013

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Bob Marley’s nostalgic song of domestic intimacy and communal survival in fabled Trench Town, “No Woman, No Cry,” functions, I propose, as a decidedly ironic frame for Rita Marley’s iconoclastic autobiography. The deployment of Bob Marley’s song as the title of Rita Marley’s autobiography is intended, it would appear, to bind the couple in an emotional knot that cannot be easily disentangled. Rita’s autobiography, published in 2004, more than two decades after Bob Marley’s death, nevertheless is marketed primarily as a fiction of marital bliss. Even more problematic, Rita Marley is positioned in her own autobiography as a mere foil destined to reflect the greater glory of her superstar husband.

In a remarkably shameless manoeuvre, the publishers of the book opportunistically represent Rita’s autobiography in this way:

Full of new information, ‘No Woman, No Cry’ is an insightful biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice. It is also a moving and inspiring story of a marriage that survived both po