Risking their lives, both courageously appeared in concert, in spite of their injuries. Bob was shot in the arm and Rita was grazed by a bullet to the head. She was beside Bob three days before the Smile Jamaica Concert 1976, when they were both wounded in an ambush at the rehearsal studio (56 Hope Road - now the Bob Marley Museum). Rita was ever-present throughout the stages of Bob's career - the victories as well as the trials. Their horizons quickly expanded to the world stage and the songs of love, hope, unity, and struggle became the mothership that transported reggae music, the message of Rastafari, and the culture of the people of Jamaica to the four corners of the earth. By the early seventies, they developed the I-Threes, Jamaica's three leading female singers (Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths), to provide support harmonies for Bob Marley & the Wailers, who had become the first reggae act to garnish an international record contract. Music became their bond.Įnduring the hardships of the initial years of the Jamaican music industry together, Bob and Rita never turned back. She would soon make the acquaintance of a local Trenchtown youth, Robert Nesta Marley, who was also answering a musical c alling. It was in the early sixties that her musical career began as a vocalist with the all-female singing group, The Soulettes, who have appeared with the Four Tops, Johnny Nash and numerous other stars.
Rita has been a principal figure on the music scene for over 30 years, when the foundation of contemporary Jamaican music was formed, and has maintained a prominent role.
It is no coincidence that the talented young Rita Anderson, born in Cuba and raised from an early age in Trenchtown, was destined to become an integral part of the musical Marley family. News Bio Photos Videos Releases Music DatesĪll over the world, the Marley name has become synonymous with reggae music, rastafari and Jamaica.
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