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Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare (born October 24, 1954) is a Canadian-Jamaican jazz singer, musician and beauty queen. Breakspeare was crowned Miss World 1976. Breakspeare is the mother of reggae musician Damian Marley, through her relationship with Bob Marley, who remained married to Rita Marley until his death. Bob Marley is said to have written the songs ‘Turn Your Lights Down Low’ and 'Waiting in Vain' about her.[1][2]

Cindy Breakspeare
Born	Cynthia Jean Cameron Breakspeare (1954-10-24) 24 October 1954 (age 68) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education	Immaculate Conception High School
Occupation	Singer musician model
Spouses	Tom Tavares-Finson ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1995)​ Rupert Bent II ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	3; including Damian Marley
Musical career
Genres	Jazz
Musical artist

Life and career

Breakspeare was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a Jamaican father, Louis Breakspeare, who was a British-Jamaican of multiracial ancestry, and a white Canadian mother of British origin, Marguerite Cochrane. She has three brothers and one sister.[3] Breakspeare moved to Jamaica when she was four years old, and attended the Immaculate Conception High School, graduating in 1973. As a teenager, Breakspeare participated in beauty pageants, including Miss Jamaica Body Beautiful and Miss Universe Bikini. She was invited to participate in the Miss World competition in 1976 held in London. Despite Jamaica's anti-apartheid protest of the pageant,[4] Breakspeare accepted the invitation and won the title on November 19, 1976,[5] becoming the second Jamaican to do so.[6]

Personal life

Breakspeare had a relationship with reggae musician Bob Marley beginning in 1977, lasting until his death in 1981. From their relationship she gave birth to a son, Damian Marley (aka Jr. Gong), in 1978.[7] Three years later, Breakspeare married senator Tom Tavares-Finson in 1981 with whom she has a son Christian (b. 1982) and a daughter Leah (b. 1986). Breakspeare and Tavares-Finson later divorced in 1995. Breakspeare married musician Rupert Bent II in 1999. Breakspeare has been pursuing her career as a recording artist and entrepreneur. She founded a Rastafarian craft store called Ital Craf in Jamaica. Breakspeare has four grandsons from her three children.[8] Breakspeare remains a personality in Jamaica, occasionally featuring in local media.[9]

Filmography

• Marley (2012), interviewee

References

External links

• Jamaican Hall Of Fame: Cindy Breakspeare

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Wilnelia Merced	Miss World 1976	Succeeded by Mary Stävin

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