Rita Marley

En 1966, Rita Anderson y Robert Nesta Marley contrajeron matrimonio en Kingston. Bob Marley había cumplido veintiún años y, aunque por aquella época ocupaba su tiempo como guitarrista de los Wailling Wailers, no tardaría mucho en convertirse en un artista de fama internacional. Por su especial carisma, el contenido revolucionario de sus canciones y su filosofía de vida rastafari, Bob Marley fue elevado a la categoría de Rey del Reggae, y tras su muerte, empezó a ser considerado un profeta. Ésta es la historia de Rita y Bob Marley, la crónica de un amor que se impuso a pesar de las tensiones que genera la fama, el relato emocionado de una mujer que luchó por salir adelante y mantener vivo el inmenso legado de Marley.

La crónica de un amor que se impuso a pesar de las tensiones que genera la fama, pero es también el relato emocionado de una mujer que, tras la muerte de su esposo, luchó por salir adelante y mantene

Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, life-long companion and soul mate. They met in Trenchtown when he was 19 and she was 18, and she was very much part of his musical career, selling his early recordings from their house in the days before Island Records signed up the Wailers. She shared the hard times and the dangers - when Bob was wounded in a gunfight before the Peace Concert, Rita was shot in the head and left for dead. Their marriage was not always easy but Rita was the woman Bob returned to no matter where music and other women might take him, the woman who held him when he died at the age of 35. Today she sees herself as the guardian of his legacy. Full of new insights, No Woman No Cry is a unique biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice. It is also a moving and inspiring story of a marriage that survived both poverty and then the strains of global celebrity.