Like Bob, Rita can also be a hero, say Sharon and Ziggy Marley

By Online Desk

Weeks after Sharon Marley stated that her mom Rita is her hero, Ziggy Marley has affirmed that “Bob wouldn’t be Bob without Rita.”

Sharon Marley’s model of her mom’s Just One More Morning, an homage, premiered on December 2021 on the event of seventy fifth earthstrong yr of Rita Marley on July 2021.

In a dialog with The Gleaner early this month, Sharon  Marley, now a grandmother of 4, declared: “I’m not making an attempt to trigger a dilemma about who’s a nationwide hero. The query was requested [in an interview] and I answered. No disrespect to any order. Mommy’s contribution is just not solely in Jamaica, it’s the whole world. She is Queen Mother of a village in Africa; she established a house for the aged in St Mary, she arrange the Rita Marley Foundation, and a lot extra. She does all of it from the guts. She may have stop and gone into hiding when Bob died, however she carried on and maintained the tempo that Bob began. She has not stopped. Just taking a look at her tells you that you have to keep it up.”

Meanwhile, talking to The Observer, Ziggy Marley famous that his mom, who had been shot within the head on the night time of December 5, 1976, when Bob Marley insisted on taking part in the Smile Jamaica Concert at Kingston’s National Heroes Park, as deliberate – though he had bullet wounds in his arm and chest, deserves equal credit score.  “She nonetheless confirmed up for the present, the identical as he did. I’m happy with each my dad and my mum as a result of there’s a group work happening between them. Bob wouldn’t be Bob with out Rita, you already know what I’m saying?,” the 53-year-old instructed 

Now 53, Ziggy spoke to The Observer on the eve of a brand new exhibition about his father’s life and influences opening on the Saatchi Gallery in London subsequent month.