“It’s just the way she loves others, just effortlessly. The quality that she admires most about her mother is endearing. If she was not there, there was always a nurturer in the house. Dad would say, ‘Rita deal with her or him deh.’ I feel there was always a community. “When dad passed on, then she had to stand up like the lioness that she is the impact of what was going on and who daddy was.
You still going school, so conform to the rules, and afterwards, you can do what you want.’ She was a great mom, and she was a mother to all of Bob’s children,” Grub said.ĭaughter Stephanie agreed and also spoke of her mother’s wisdom. I remember one time she told me that when Ziggy was going to George’s and he started to locks, and she would pull it out at nights, and Zigg would ask her why. She wanted them to have the education till they reached a point where they could do it all for themselves and make their own decisions. “When they started to sing, she kind of kept a tight rein on them. Long-time friend and confidante Grub Cooper, of Fab 5 Band, shared insights into Rita, the mother. She adopted 35 children in Ethiopia and has assisted over 200 children in the Konkonuru Methodist School in Ghana. Rita Marley is the founder and chairperson of the Robert Marley Foundation, Bob Marley Trust, and the Bob Marley Group of Companies. Rosemary Duncan spoke about the work of the foundations.
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Vaz added, “She knows how to inspire and makes you want to give your best every time.” She lauded Rita for “embracing everyone who worked at Tuff Gong”. And that is not to say that he was not a great artiste.”
It is helping me today, where I sit as the wife of Tommy Cowan and his legacy,” Davis pointed out.Īccording to Vaz, “If Rita didn’t do the work that she did, then I don’t think we would have the kind of Bob Marley legacy that we have today. We would see each other backstage or at Tuff Gong Studio, and we have had a lot of time to chit-chat about the industry. She also had her career and was able to put that aside and focus on the development of the foundation and get lawyers to put that in place. “Having lost her husband at such an early age, and she was able to carry on and embrace all his children and keep his legacy alive. Singer Carlene Davis focused on Rita Marley’s strength, while Julia Vaz, who worked at Tuff Gong for years, paid tribute to the Marley matriarch as the force that made Bob Marley the force that he remains to this day. It was as if we didn’t want to stop,” he recalled. “We did a great Bob Marley set, and it was just fantastic. That was just her name,” he told interviewer Carlette DeLeon.Ī special memory for Fraser was “a mind-blowing concert” at the renowned Hollywood Bowl in California.
When is time to put the set together, she would seh, ‘Come, sister Marcia, Deanie Weanie will put it together.’ I don’t know why. Saxophonist extraordinaire Dean Fraser, a little warily, shared the nickname Rita Marley has for him. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. We did Alpha Blondy and Chaka Khan, and she was very involved creatively,” Hunt reminisced. If I am working on a project at Tuff Gong, she wants to be involved. But afterwards, she would send a message to me to remind me that she would like to sing. Whenever she comes to the studio and see me working on certain projects, she would say, ‘Mr Hunt, can I sing back-up vocals?’ And I would think she is joking, and I seh, ‘Ah, Mrs Marley’. “There is something I really like about her, which would really make me feel good. Hunt points out that regardless of her position at the world-renowned Tuff Gong studios, the CEO didn’t ever think she was too big to sing back-up. Supe producer Clive Hunt reflects on Rita Marley, the record company executive “and the real executive producer”.
Persons from all areas of the music industry share their thoughts on Mrs Marley, or Sis Rita as they call her, and relate candid stories about her personal influence on their own lives. A new half-hour documentary brings to life the acclaimed ‘Nana’, a woman with high ideals, reaching for the stars with her feet firmly planted on the ground.
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