
It will be streamed on Tuff Gong International’s official YouTube channel as well as Tuff Gong Television. The show will culminate with a live stream at 5 p.m. Some of the performers during the celebrations include powerful female deejays, including Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt, Queen Ifrica, Tessanne Chin, Tanya Stephens, and Nadine Sutherland.

They will also use the opportunity to announce the Rita Marley Scholarship Programme. Fans will also get a chance to hear new music from Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Radio, which is one of the family’s latest ventures. It’s also a packed schedule of events which include panel discussions, musical entertainment, and special programming. They include corporations from Jamaica, Ghana, and the United States. Many of the events carded focus on the many different organizations that Rita Marley works with and through. We are blessed to be able to honour her.” If ‘We Must Carry On’ was a person, it would be Rita Marley. The Bob Marley legacy that the world knows today is due in no small part to the work of Mrs Marley. “My mom is my best friend, my inspiration, and, regardless of my title, she is very much still the boss. She has always displayed a deep love for her mother, which she also expressed in the release. She is the firstborn child of Bob and Rita Marley and the current head of the Marley Group. The intention of the celebrations is to recognize the living achievements of Rita Marley, “whose resilience, strength and vision helped to build Tuff Gong International, establish the Bob Marley Museum, rear a musical dynasty (spanning three generations and counting), and much more.”Ĭedella Marley, who has taken a more frontline role over the years, will offer guidance for the staging of the festivities. The Marley group also issued a press release on the celebrations, which they say will globally celebrate the ‘Mystic of a Queen.’ The Marley Group has revealed that they will host a week of events to celebrate the matriarch leading up to her birthday this Sunday, July 25. Since the loss of her husband some 40 years ago, she has managed to not only keep his memory alive but become a successful entertainer and remarkable humanitarian. In 1992 she was nominated for a Grammy for her music album “We Must Carry On”.The woman at the helm of the Marley family, Rita Marley, is expected to celebrate her upcoming 75th birthday with much fanfare and deservedly so. She also founded the Rita Marley Foundation that works toward the alleviation of poverty for people of developing and less developed countries. Among other things, she has converted their former residence in Jamaica into the Bob Marley Museum and founded the Robert Marley Foundation that focuses on the delivery of social interventions through education, culture, environment and sustainable community development. Since the death of her husband in 1981, Rita Marley has managed his musical legacy. With Rita Marley at his side, Bob Marley shot to worldwide fame in the 1970s with the hit “No Woman No Cry”.

The Cuban-born musician was a member of the band The Soulettes, and later became a part of the music trio I-Threes, which performed together with Bob Marley on a tour through the USA and also as a supporting act for The Jackson Five. She married the global star Bob Marley in 1966. Included in the sale of the property, the new owner will enjoy a two-year membership in the Nassau Palm Cay Beach Club.

The estate also boasts sprawling garden grounds complete with a swimming pool and a guesthouse. During Prohibition, the tunnel was used to smuggle rum, but it is now closed off. The heritage of the property is reflected not only in the original ceramic tiles and wooden floors, but in one distinct architectural highlight: a tunnel running from the basement directly to the sea. The villa has living interiors spanning some 360 square metres, with three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a spacious living area with a dining room and modern kitchen.
