Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died at the age of 81. Jerome Hamilton, the family’s representative, says that she died in her sleep Tuesday night at her home in Miami from natural causes.
Jamaica Information Minister Olivia Grange said.
Mrs. Booker was the matriarch of a movement so powerful that the mystical qualities of the Marley musical legacy remain strong and potent. She was a star in her own right. Her life was one of hardship, struggle and eventual fulfillment, and through it all, she exuded hope, strength and confidence.
Harry Shivnani, a family friend and general manager of Bob Marley’s mausoleum, said
Everyone in St. Ann’s parish knew Booker as “Mama B.” She loved cooking. Mama would make you the best pudding ever. She was a typical Jamaican grandmother. She was very warm, very friendly.
Well, she lived a good long life and if it’s your time to go, I can’t think of a better way then passing in your sleep.
R.I.P. Mama B!
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