Bob Marley's Father Arrived in a BLACK CAR After 10 Years—Bob Cried All Night and Said 'Take Me Home

Описание: Nine Mile, Jamaica. April 1955. 2:30 p.m.
Bob Marley was playing football in the dirt road when a black car appeared. In Nine Mile, nobody had cars. The boys stopped playing and watched.
A white man stepped out. Wearing a suit. Maybe 60 years old. He looked at the boys until his eyes stopped on Bob.
"Which one of you is Robert?"
Bob stepped forward. "I'm Robert."
The man's eyes got wet. "I'm your father."
The other boys gasped. This white man in a suit was Bob's father? The father who'd never come? The father Bob's mother cried about?
"I don't know you," Bob said.
Norval Marley had abandoned Bob when he was a baby. White British naval officer who got a young Jamaican girl pregnant and disappeared. For ten years, Bob grew up without him.
Now he was here. Saying he wanted to take Bob to Kingston. Give him education. Opportunities. A better life.
Bob went. One night in his father's house. A house too clean, too quiet, too wrong.
That night, Bob cried. "I want my mama."
Norval came to his room. And Bob asked the question he'd been carrying his whole life.
"Why did you leave us?"
What his father said broke something in both of them.
The next morning, Norval drove Bob home. Before leaving, he gave Bob something from his car trunk. Something that would change music history.
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⚠️ DISCLAIMER:
This story is inspired by documented accounts of Bob Marley's relationship with his absent father, Norval Marley. While Bob's abandonment and his father's absence are historically verified, and Bob did receive his first guitar as a child, the specific encounter and dialogue have been dramatized for storytelling purposes based on Bob's documented feelings about his father throughout his life.