“Its like ‘let me get the neighborhood together and I want to put on a concert and we’re gonna have a bash’ and that’s me too in a nutshell,” Cedella said. “Well with her moving there and just trying to bring the neighborhood together and what she was really good at was music and so that is her unifier.”
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The story assures children that nothing can stop the music as long as they have community.Ĭedella Marley, 54, said the storyline is a close reflection of how life unfolded for her at the time. But when the weather ruins their plans, she discovers help in the most unlikely places, as her new neighbors quickly become the kindest of friends. She would plan an outdoor concert for the whole neighborhood. In the book, the main character Marley, after settling into her new community with her family and musician dad, came up with a brilliant idea to help her and her siblings make friends. Three of Bob’s children reportedly lived with Booker and attended city schools. The link between the Marley family and Delaware was established by Bob’s mother Cedella Booker, who remarried and settled in Wilmington. “It’s also a shout out to the unifying power of music as well as the importance of migration stories for children like myself and others.” “And I just wanted to share that experience of being a migrant kid at the time and bringing music to the neighborhood,” she continued. “ chronicles my life when we moved to Delaware, we came from Jamaica and moved to Wilmington, Delaware when I was a young girl,” Cedella told CBS News in an interview on Friday. It’s a poetic story about a young girl who moves to a new country and learns to make friends, which was inspired by Cedella’s childhood experience.
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The new publication, titled Marley And The Family Band, which was written by Cedella Marley and New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste and illustrated by Tiffany Rose, is a picture book that celebrates music, love, and family. Cedella Marley, the daughter of Reggae legend Bob Marley and Rita Marley, and the mother of Skip Marley has shared her story growing up as a migrant kid in Delaware by way of a new children’s book.