2.  Robert Nesta Marley Booker was born on
February 6, 1945 in Nine Mile ( Rhoden Hall,
Saint Ann Parish) , a small town north of the
island of Jamaica in the Caribbean Sea. He
was the son of Cedella Booker, an Afro -
Jamaican who was 18 years 6 ( when he was
born Bob) and Norval Marley, a white
Jamaican of English descent (his family came
from Essex ) , Captain of the Royal Marines (
infantry British navy ) who considered English,
because upon entering the British Armed
Forces for the First World War, in the form said
to be English

3.  Bob Marley had to endure ridicule and contempt
by Jamaican blacks for being a mulatto ( mestizo
product mix black and white) , especially in
childhood, adolescence and early adulthood (it is
said that the brother of his first girlfriend said that "
we do not want whites in this house "). But after Bob
showed indifferent to these slights and said not
ashamed of racial mixture; although he is simply
identified as black and that was the only part of his
racial heritage for which he showed interest.

4.  In 2005 , Rita Anderson , widow of Marley, wrote a biography
in which he criticized that was her husband. In No Woman,
No Cry , as the title of the book. According to Rita , the
couple lived in a hut , Bob only had a pair of panties , which
she washed every night. It also states that the reggae star
moved to a mansion in Kingston, where he lived with several
lovers ( one of which went on to become Miss World ) and
even got to bring up some of the children who Bob had with
those women.