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Cedella Booker (Sidilla Editha Malcolm) was born on 23 July, 1926 in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, is a Sidilla Editha Cedella" Booker was singer and writer singer and writer. Discover Cedella Booker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Sidilla Editha Malcolm
Occupation Singer-songwriter, author
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 July, 1926
Birthday 23 July
Birthplace Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
Date of death 8 April, 2008
Died Place Miami, Florida, U.S.
Nationality Jamaica

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1926

Sidilla Editha "Cedella" Booker (née Malcolm and previously Marley) (July 23, 1926 – April 8, 2008) was a Jamaican singer and writer.

She was the mother of reggae musician Bob Marley.

Booker was born Cedilla Editha Malcolm in Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, daughter of Albertha Whilby and Omeriah Malcolm, a farmer, "bush doctor", and one of the most respected residents of Nine Mile.

Her paternal grandfather was Robert "Uncle Day" Malcolm, who descended from the Coromantee (or Akan) slaves shipped to Jamaica from the Gold Coast, today known as Ghana, in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

At 18, Cedella Malcolm married 59 year old Norval Sinclair Marley, a white Jamaican of English descent.

She became pregnant with their son, Robert Nesta (whose second given name "Nesta" means "wise messenger").

1955

After Norval's death in 1955, Cedella and Bob moved to Trenchtown, a slum neighborhood in Kingston.

This was the only place Booker could afford to live at the time, being a young woman moving from the country to the big city on her own.

1963

While living in Trenchtown, Booker gave birth to a daughter, Claudette Pearl, with Taddeus Livingston, the father of Bunny Wailer, who formed the original Wailers trio with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh in 1963.

She then married Edward Booker, an American civil servant, and resided first in Delaware, where she gave birth to two more sons, Richard and Anthony, with Booker.

1976

After Edward Booker's death in 1976, Cedella moved to Miami, Florida, where she was present at the deathbed of her famous son, who died from cancer in 1981.

1990

In 1990, Anthony was killed in a shootout with Miami police, after walking through a shopping mall with a 12-gauge shotgun and opening fire on responding police.

Booker lived in Miami for the remainder of her life.

She is survived by her son Richard Booker and his children Princess Booker, Crystal Booker and Zaya Booker.

1993

In 1993, Booker conceived and created what is today called the 9 Mile Music Festival, an annual music event held every year since in Miami to help keep alive Bob Marley's message of peace, love, and unity.

As part of the admission fee to the one-day music festival, attendees bring canned goods that are collected and donated to help feed the needy in the Miami area through various local charities.

Called "the keeper of the flame," Booker grew voluminous dreadlocks, adopted her grandson Rohan, Bob Marley's son by Janet Hunt, and occasionally performed live with Marley's children, Ky-Mani, Ziggy, Stephen, Damian, and Julian.

2005

Later, she released the albums Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song. Cedella Booker participated in the festivities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, commemorating Marley's 60th birthday in 2005.

2008

Booker died in her sleep from natural causes in Miami on April 8, 2008.

Booker wrote two books on Bob Marley.