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Rita Marley

Rita MarleyRita Anderson (Marley) was a member of a Coxson Dodd/Studio One group called the Soulettes in the mid-sixties. Bob Marley was asked by Mr. Dodd to coach the group. Rita and Bob fell in love and, the day before Bob left for work in the United States, Feb 10, 1966, they were married. Rita appeared on many Wailers' recordings throughout the '60s. and eventually helped forn the I Three, along with Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths, to back Bob on his solo recordings beginning in 1974. They toured with Bob through 1980. Shortly after Bob's death in May, 1981. Rita scored the biggest hit of her career, the international herbal smash "One Draw." Although she still records the ocasional solo album, her greatest interests have been in developing the careers of their children, the Melody Makers, and managing the many enterprises that Bob created: pressing plants, record companies, and the Bob Marley Museum chief among them.

 

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