Early Life

Bob Marley's Childhood Home

Bob Marley's Father

Bob's Mother

Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Jamaica. His mother was a 28 year old Jamaican woman named Cedella Booker and his father was a 60 year old white English captain named Norval Sinclair Marley. As a child, Bob Marley grew up in St. Ann, where he experienced violence and poverty. Bob’s father was a plantation overseer and was always away at work. His father died at the age of seventy, when Bob was only ten years old. A life that began in poverty, violence, and a single parent household turned out to be one of the most spectacular lifetimes anyone could ever wish for.