Tag: Negative energy

Even by Rasta standards, Damian Marley’s dreadlocks look incredible. They’re left flowing as he leaves for the House of Commons. He was brought up in a privileged area of Kingston called Stony Hill by his mother Cindy Breakspeare, a former Miss World and the subject of the Wailers song Is This Love?, and her husband Tom Tavares-Finson, a criminal attorney and politician. “My stepfather and my little brother and sister are white Jamaicans – I was the only one of brown complexion in the house that we were in. After he left school, he adopted his dad’s Rastafarian faith. There is a sliver of discomfort at how relentlessly his father’s image is marketed by his estate: not only the expected 40th-anniversary reissue albums and T-shirts but Bob Marley room spray, Bob Marley lip balm and Bob Marley Mellow Mood low-calorie raspberry tea lemonade. “I’m a fan of some of them and some of them … not so much.” He has other plans outside of making music. And that despite the fact he has never voted. Damian Marley is touring Europe until 31 August. His album Stony Hill is out now.