One of Wilmington’s most famous one-time residents is about to get the Hollywood treatment.
But will Bob Marley’s time in Delaware make the final cut in Paramount Pictures’ biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” when it is released in theaters on Valentine’s Day? We’ll have an answer in a couple of weeks.
It’s been 60 years since an 18-year-old Marley moved from Jamaica to Wilmington with his mother, Cedella Booker, living in (or visiting) the city on and off through 1977, according to the Bob Marley Foundation.
Booker had married Edward Booker, whom she met in Delaware while visiting her sister following the death of Marley’s father Norval in 1955.
Marley lived with his mother and stepfather at 2313 Tatnall St., with the reggae star later purchasing the home next door at 2311 Tatnall St., working a short stint as a lab assistant at DuPont and later driving a forklift at the former Chrysler plant in Newark.
FLASHBACK Bob Marley wrote some of his first songs living in Wilmington. This is his Delaware history.