Rita Path Way, Cooreville Gardens, Kingston 20, St Andrew, Jamaica

Rita Path Way is located in Cooreville Gardens, Kingston 20, St Andrew, Jamaica (Caribbean).

The community of Cooreville Gardens, located off Washington Boulevard, was named for David Coore, Jamaica's deputy prime minister and minister of finance in the 1970s.

Also, the streets of Cooreville Gardens are named after famous Jamaican artistes in recognition of their contribution in music and the theatre and Rita Path Way is named after Alfarita Marley (popularly Rita Marley).

⭐ Points of Interest:
0:25 Wailers Avenue
0:58 Rita Path Way

⭐ About Rita Marley
Alfarita Constantia Marley OJ, OD (née Anderson; born 25 July 1946) is a Cuban-born Jamaican singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.

She is the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley.

Along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, she was a member of the reggae vocal group the I Threes, the backing vocalists for Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Rita was born in Santiago de Cuba, to Leroy Anderson and Cynthia "Beda" Jarrett. Her parents moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when she was three months old.

In her memoir No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley, she describes how she was raised by her Aunt Viola after her parents separated.

She was raised in Trenchtown in Kingston, Jamaica.

She studied as a nurse and sang in church, and before long was in a vocal group.

It was through that group that she met Bob Marley

Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Marley

Website: https://www.injamaica.com

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Posted by InJamaica in Kingston & St Andrew on May 04 2023 at 05:36 PM  ·  Public
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