While they were married, Marley had eight other children with eight other women, many of whom, like Ziggy and Stephen, have also gone on to be musicians.
When Marley and Anderson married, he adopted her daughter from a previous relationship, with the couple going on to have three of their own children: Cedella Marley, David “Ziggy” Marley and Stephen Marley. Marley’s website officially acknowledges 11 children, although the ”real” number is disputed, given the number of litigants who tried to stake their claim to the “Marley millions” after Bob’s death. “Bob believed in music as a tool for social and personal change,” says BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster Don Letts, “and consequently it went some way into making me the man I am today.” “At the time there was no spoken-word poetry, there was no dub poetry, so to read those words.” Marley is credited with inspiring a generation of black British youth with his universal message of one love and unity. “It really inspired me to keep doing what I was doing,” he claimed. Keep doing what you do.” Unveiling an English Heritage Blue plaque at 42 Oakley Street, London, in 2019, Zephaniah said the letter was one of the main reasons he felt encouraged to pursue “dub poetry”, the style for which he is now most famous. What do you think of my poems?” Incredibly, he received a hand-written reply, all the way from Jamaica, where the musician told him, “Young man, Britain needs you. Nobody’s really listening to me in England. When he was a schoolboy, one of Britain's most prolific contemporary writers, Benjamin Zephaniah, wrote a letter to Marley along the lines of, “I’m a poet from Birmingham.
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