Marley Family Interviews

[SmoothOperator]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

So TreyJ how do you account for the fact that they were raised under the same roof yet their speech patterns are so different. Is it a macho thing? </div></div>

Basically yea. Rita does not do patois or much patois though she speaks with a Jamaican accent. She speaks like an English teacher I had in primary school - English with a distinctive Jamaican lilt. Bob was straight up patois - that was the only language he knew. So the ladies took after Rita and the men after Bob.

It is funny that Cindy who likely never lived below Half Way Tree speaks more patois than Rita. Overcompensation I think.

[Tropicana]

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Likely.

[evanovitch]

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Rita has another daughter born long after Bob died,,,trying to think of her name...she took her on tour as a child wen we went to Japan..have pictures of the likkle girl...tink she was btw 6 n 10yrs old at the time....Rita cooked for herself...didnt eat any of the food dem provided....memba we in the tented area n she decide fi cook before di show start....har wid di likkle sharp knife n di veggies wid di wok....n as she a cook she a chat n we were all tawking patois....wat is dat chile's name...dang....am on mi Mac n haven't transferred pictures....those children never had it hard as Sista Pearl was always there fi dem...always....dem went to good school like Priory n would be taken to see dem parents abroad on tour...Cedella is the most changed of them...she was a fat child n up to her early teens....she is definitely a late bloomer

[SmoothOperator]

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I knew her from the Melody Makers days...so I can't speak to what she looked like before that - she really wasn't fat then. And I don't know why but I just have not been able to shake the feeling that something about her looks very different. And I wanna say unless my eyes deceive me, and perhaps the women here can speak better to this, but I think this woman has had some work done to her nose and cheeks.

[Tropicana]

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Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Rita has another daughter born long after Bob died,,,

Really, I didn't know this. Who was the father?

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trying to think of her name...she took her on tour as a child wen we went to Japan..have pictures of the likkle girl...tink she was btw 6 n 10yrs old at the time....Rita cooked for herself...didnt eat any of the food dem provided....memba we in the tented area n she decide fi cook before di show start....har wid di likkle sharp knife n di veggies wid di wok....n as she a cook she a chat n we were all tawking patois....wat is dat chile's name...dang....am on mi Mac n haven't transferred pictures....those children never had it hard as Sista Pearl was always there fi dem...always....dem went to good school like Priory n would be taken to see dem parents abroad on tour...Cedella is the most changed of them...she was a fat child n up to her early teens....she is definitely a late bloomer

So the stability provided by Sista Pearl really helped provide a stable environment for the children? That's good to know. Many a Jamaican grandmother has been the anchor for the grandchilden.

I really like the way in which Rita has matured so beautifully over the years. I like her spirit and in some photos she is the spitting image of my aunt. They even sound alike.

Definitely you need to write a book and share your experiences and photos. Few have had the inside look like you did.

You know what, I have searched on Youtube many times for one of the first songs the Melody Makers did but I was never bable to find it. Perhaps I had the name wrong. It's something like Trodding in Jerusalem.

Anyway I finally found it. They sounded so cute and adorable.

[Tropicana]

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Melody Makers when younger:

[evanovitch]

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Pearl is a sister dat Bob n Bunny share....

[Xavier]

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Back to the original topic... The men always seem to use patois but what some term as &quot;Kingston&quot; patois. I remember watching Ziggy on Arsenio Hall doing an interview and it was the first time I heard him talking to the foreign press. I had heard him speak before at colts football (soccer) matches when his school (St. Georges) was playing my school...If I recall there was no heavy patois back then...

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[Tropicana]

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Grandmothers and aunts really need to be there for the children sometimes.

So Xavier, this would support my assertion that this is a macho, cool thing.

Melody Makers when older. The children are introduced here by their grandmother in standard English....please note:

Close your eyes and you would swear it's Bob singing instead of Ziggy. Identical moves too. He needed to develop his own on-stage personality and he eventually did.

[Tropicana]

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Xavier...brings me to the other thread I started about if guys are sometimes laying it on thick just to sound macho and cool.

[Tropicana]

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This is the interview that Xavier was talking about.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TreyJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cedella was always speaky spokey and twanging even back when when she was living in Jamaica. Ziggy and Stephen I recall from their Melody Makers days made a point to use raw patois in their interviews even with foreign journalists - let them figure it out was their attitude. When i was living in Jamaica, though I was a youngster, I recall seeing she, Ziggy and Stephen on a regular basis travelling in a red jeep driven by a dread who would make a stop at Alpha Academy on South Camp Road to drop Cedella off at school and then another one at STGC on North Street for Ziggy and Stephen</div></div>

One of my Exes entire family worked for Rita ......Her Mom, the three sisters and her brother. When Rita moved to Bull Bay the family was already living there and they became friends.
Ziggy used to go to Primary School in my area I remember Rita taking him to school almost every morning.

[Tropicana]

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So what was it like working for Rita and what were things like for the children growing up? It can't be easy for the children of celebrities.They are constantly reading all kinds of gossip about their parents growing up.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So what was it like working for Rita and what were things like for the children growing up? It can't be easy for the children of celebrities.They are constantly reading all kinds of gossip about their parents growing up. </div></div>

There was surprisingly no gossip.
Kids are shielded from that stuff in Jamaica.
Other than been driven to school nothing was very remarkable about Ziggy in Primary school.
My Ex Sister had a baby by Family Man and one by Fluxy (Sterophonic fame).
Of course some kids had nicer (or more) presents at Christmas Time, but all the kids were treated the same.

[Tropicana]

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Well I'm glad they were sheltered from it.

My Ex Sister had a baby by Family Man

Who hasn't? Doesn't he have about 48 kids. Frankly, I don't see the attraction. Yes he is EXTREMELY talented but he can't even read or write. A wha' me a go do wid dat?