Bob was replaced by Constantine "Vision" Walker, who recorded a few songs as a member of The Wailers during this period. Friends and Lovers, One More Chance and That Ain't Right (featuring harmony vocals by the Wailers), as well as a duet by Rita and Bunny Livingston, Bless You were issued years later on the Lovers and Friends album.Īfter those recordings for the Studio One label coached by Bob, Rita married Bob Marley around February, 1966, just before her husband moved to Wilmington, Delaware (USA) for a few months to make a living working at the Dupont Hotel there. Soulettes released recordings include rocksteady tunes such as Time for Everything, Turn Turn Turn (released in 1966, this was a cover of the Byrds' hit song based on a Bible quote) and A Deh Pon Dem. The group included Rita, her cousin Constantine "Dream" Walker, and Marlene "Precious" Gifford Bob Marley, then a member of the Wailers vocal trio along with Bunny Livingston and Peter Tosh, became the group's mentor and manager and through working together, he and Rita fell in love. After it was learned that she was a singer, she was asked to audition for the Soulettes. In the mid 1960s, Rita met Bob Marley after meeting Peter Tosh. In her book No Woman, No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley, she describes how she was raised by her Aunt Viola on Greenwich Park Road. She grew up in the upper level of Beachwood Avenue, located in Kingston, Jamaica. Rita was born in Santiago de Cuba, to Leroy Anderson and Cynthia "Beda" Jarrett. She was a member of the vocal group the I Threes, along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, who gained recognition as the backing vocalists for Bob Marley and the Wailers. Alpharita Constantia "Rita" Marley, OD (née Anderson born 25 July 1946), is a Cuban-born Jamaican-Ghanaian singer and the widow of Bob Marley.
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