Bob Marley’s spirit lives on at Grammys

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) - Bob Marley has been dead  for 28 years, but his legacy lives on at the Grammys.
Three of his sons were nominated for prizes yesterday, and  two of them won.

Ziggy Marley, 41, his eldest son, picked up the fifth  Grammy of his career, this time in the children’s musical album  category for his all-star project “Family Time.”

Marley, who first made a splash in the 1980s with his  sibling group the Melody Makers, corralled the likes of Paul  Simon, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson and Toots Hibbert for  “Family Time,” which also includes two spoken-word pieces from  Jamie Lee Curtis. Proceeds went to a school in Jamaica.

His younger brother Stephen won the Grammy for best reggae  album, the fourth time a member of the Marley family has won in  the past five years. (Burning Spear broke the streak last year,  when no Marleys were nominated.)

It marked the seventh win for Marley, 37, who was cited for  “Mind Control – Acoustic,” a digital-only follow-up to his 2007  Grammy-winning solo debut, “Mind Control.”
In taking the prize, he beat 34-year-old half-brother  Julian Marley, who was bidding for his first Grammy.

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