Damian Marley

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Damian Robert Nesta Marley (born 21 July 1978) is a Jamaican reggae singer. The youngest son of Bob Marley, he is the recipient of four Grammy Awards.

Damian is the youngest son of legendary reggae singer Bob Marley. He is the only child born to Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, a Jamaican jazz singer crowned Miss World 1976. Like several of Bob’s children, Damian was born out of wedlock and outside of Bob’s marriage to singer Rita Marley. After seeing the film Damien – Omen II, which is about the coming of the Antichrist, one of Bob’s last requests in Germany was to have Damian’s name changed. “Damien being a devil… It was inappropriate for him as a Rastafarian to have a child with that name,” Bob said and Damian’s name was later changed.
Damian was two years old when his father died. His nickname “Junior Gong” is derived from his father’s nickname of “Tuff Gong”.

At the age of 13, Marley formed a musical group by the name of the Shephards, which included the daughter of Freddie McGregor and son of Third World’s Cat Coore. The group opened the 1992 Reggae Sunsplash festival.
The band fell apart in the…