![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her book Bob Marley, My Son, Marley’s mother notes that, before conceiving Bob, she “caught religion” at Shiloh Apostolic Church, a Pentecostal church in Kingston where she was a chorister. His mother, Cedella Booker, was a Black woman of Afro-Jamaican descent. His father, Norval Marley, was a white man of English origin who died when Marley was 10. Unless you were to stumble on this story online-as I did when an Ethiopian Orthodox friend shared it on Twitter, or perhaps as you are doing now with this article-you would likely never hear about it at all.īob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. The 2012 documentary Marley makes no mention of it whatsoever. His official biographies acknowledge that it happened, but offer very little detail. The baptism of the reggae superstar and face of the Rastafarian movement into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is a true story-but also, for the most part, an untold one. On November 4, 1980, in a New York City hotel room, Bob Marley was baptized as a Christian, but few chronicles of the star's life mention it. ![]()
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