e to write his own music. It also gave him the opportunity to go live with his mother in the United States. Marley only stayed for a short period of time though. He felt that he did not fit in and ended up heading right back to Jamaica. After being back in Jamaica for several months he met Rita Anderson, his soon to be wife. This would be one of the greatest things for Bob, but also one of the worst.Bob and Rita were soon married. Together they had two sons Ziggy, Stevie. They also had a daughter Cedella whom Bob named after his mother. I find it interesting that he named his daughter after his mother since she was really never there for him. I feel that was a very brave and respectable thing to do. Bob was a great father. Everyday Bob had his children picked up and driven to Hope Road. Stevie, Ziggy and Cedella would arrive around two and stay until 6 or seven oclock, spending time with their father and watching him play soccer. By the late 1960s, Bob had formed a new band. The Wailers. The Wailers consisted of Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, Family Man Barrett on bass, Touter Harvey on keyboards, Carlton Barrett on drums, Al Anderson on lead guitar, Alvin Seco Patterson on percussion and Lee Jaffe, who played harmonica. The Wailers also along with being a new band had a new producer by the name of Lee Scratch Perry. Scratch was prominent reggae producer had and through other smaller bands he gained a great measure of prominence in Jamaica. He suggested to Bob that the group try a new type of music called rude boy, which is a slower type of reggae. The group soon had a number of hits, including Soul Rebel, 400 Years, and Small Axe. After having these few hits Bob discovered Rastafarianism. From the mid-1960s, Marley and his fellow Wailers devoted themselves to a faith in Rastafarianism, a religion centered around the belief that Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I (now deceased) was a divine being who would l...
